• Jessicat@lemmy.world
      11·
      1 month ago

      I’m in the process of quitting Reddit. It was weird, some person commented dozens of times and started reposting the same question on the same comment because we disagreed. After I asked the person to leave me alone (I know… I was naive and hopeful), they commented again with the same question multiple times, I told them to fuck off. I got flagged by Reddit for harassment and now I’m shadow banned. It’s basically made the app useless to me. I don’t get why that’s a policy, if they’re banning my account they should just tell me and give me a chance to appeal or just block it. Instead, they operate in this weird gray space of making the experience terrible so you just leave. Sad because I enjoyed a closed community there but the general mods are just the worst. Lemmy will probably be better for my mental health though so silver linings :)

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
        4·
        1 month ago

        sounded like AI/bots are doing it. i wonder if reddit allows bot so they can ban users critical of certain “agendas” as a bait.

      • SolidEnigma@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 month ago

        I got perma banned because i said indian truckers. I didnt even bother to apeal it lol reddit was becoming like a warzone. Couldnt say anything with out someone taking offence.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
          3·
          1 month ago

          appeals are pretty much useless anyways, even if did try. less than 1% gets unbanned by a admin, and only if they think thier ban was in error. they ignore majority of the appeals, because AI moderation indiscriminately bans people, so they dont have the amount of energy to unban them all, barring people who purposely violating TOS, or have multi accounts with thier bans lifted in the past.

  • plutopos@lemmy.zip
    14·
    1 month ago

    The other day I got a notification that Reddit removed my comment for hate speech. I was scared. Had I said something hateful?

    I went to check. It was a comment under a “Homophobic Gaster” meme in the Deltarune community. My comment was:

    IT IS I

    GASTER DELTARUNE

    AND I AM VERY,

    VERY

    HOMOPHOBIC.

    Reddit moderation has no human input whatsoever

    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 month ago

      About the time that I knew that I was going to be leaving Reddit was when I got a similar notification, for threatening violence against another.

      It turns out in the post I was mocking a fictional character. That’s literally it.

      • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Fuck Erebus subreddit got banned for harassment and harm towards others. A completely made up character specifically designed by writers to be one of the most hated individual. No reference or links to anyone in real life.

        That subreddit got banned just before i did.

        So hating a fictional character is enough to trigger R1

          • Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.orgEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            Yeah, and yes it was just stupid random sub dedicated to one of the most hated character of Warhammer 40k universe.

            It did got banned oddly just before i started to get warnings and temp bans in rather rapid succession, for pretty much the same behavior iv had been already doing for years.

            I assume they launched some new form of detection algorithm in the first half of this year.

  • BeUnique@lemmy.zip
    12·
    1 month ago

    Then you find out it’s nothing offensive or rule breaking, just a MOD on a power trip. I’m so glad I deleted my account after like 10 years.

    • moustachio@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 month ago

      Reddit is also getting ban hungry. I got a 7 day ban for criticizing Israelis… zero bans for people saying much worse things about Palestinians

      • Zahille7@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 month ago

        A moderator on r/music deleted a post about the removal of Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center.

        Like sure there were plenty of other posts on different subs about the same thing, but I felt like someone was trying to control the narrative there.

    • P00ptart@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 month ago

      I got temp banned so many times for ridiculous shit, and never when it was arguably justified.

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
    9·
    1 month ago

    TBH, I have some of the same issues here sometimes.

    Especially when it goes like, “Oh look, somebody replied to my post just five minutes ago!” What was the reply? ‘Deleted by creator’

    • plutopos@lemmy.zip
      6·
      1 month ago

      Once I corrected a guy on some minor D&D rule, nothing important

      He started insulting me, ultimately realized he was wrong, and deleted the comment alongside his entire freakin’ account

    • InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
      2·
      1 month ago

      More and more people are and have been leaving Reddit.

      However, Reddit is expanding its reach and popularity in other regions with large populations, like India and developing countries across the globe as well as working to attract other cultures/circles and younger demographics. Strictly from a numbers perspective, it’s really only getting bigger.

      And the people who are there now don’t give a single gnat turd about privacy, censorship, APIs, artificial intelligence, bots, ads, crappy design, scams/spam, bad moderation/administration, centralized social media, toxic culture, or any of the other million reasons why people like you and I left. If they did, they wouldn’t be there now.

      Having said that, a lot of folks in the Lemmy-esque parts of the Fediverse came here to get away from Reddit’s culture, not just its mods and admins. A mass exodus of Redditors coming here is basically the very last thing they want. And truly, every time there is a big fiasco that leads to lots of people coming here from Reddit, it’s almost always the case that they come, they leave, and most of what remains is the very worst of Reddit that couldn’t get back in because they’re so toxic they were completely banned. I said what I said.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
    4·
    1 month ago

    incoming 3rd wave of purges, Musk again wants spez to removed pictures of him form the site. i see another wave coming. musk is pretty much responsible for the massive bans that happened last year.