Lots of people have been banned, across all their accounts, with no recourse, and new accounts suffer the same fate
My fiancée lost over a third of her followers overnight, and asked a mod she knows what was happening.
She was told that anyone who had been banned, for any reason whatsoever was being indiscriminately purged, with device fingerprinting and other mechanisms used to keep them from finding a way back in
Apparently it has been happening in stages, so that’s why there are waves of mass-bans
Reddit seems determined to cut themselves off at the knees, so here’s hoping that Digg and Lemmy can shine and learn from the mistakes of Reddit
This is literally why I joined Lemmy :) I got banned, not for advocating violence or racism but for calling out a mod for removing posts that were not breaching any rules.
Initially it was a 3 day ban, I appealed it and they turned into a permanent one lmao.
from what ive found out, any type of temp ban was going to result in a permaban on all accounts. and this is one thing reddit dint address to
I am a moderator somewhere (not reddit)
It’s easy to just ban people, but not actually helpful
I always wait until the hate speech comes out. Offensive speech is one thing, but the population of the forum lets them know in their responses that they are out of line
The ban doesn’t happen if my ego is insulted, it’s saved for the pointless troll (and even then, only if it keeps going after being warned) or when something is truly hateful
Yeah, bans for hate speech etc. are perfectly understandable but being banned for stepping on someone’s toes is pathetic.
It’s also the fact you can’t really appeal it that irks me, they just say they looked at it and will uphold the ban without further comment.