I was on Reddit for 10 years, and I have absolutely no clue why I was banned. I just moved, so maybe it was because my new ISP dealt me a bad IP?

Anyway, Reddit:

  1. Has no email, and doesn’t respond to e-mails.
  2. Doesn’t respond to mod mail, doesn’t tell you why you were banned.
  3. Doesn’t respond to appeal.
  4. Autobans any user I create.
  5. Seemingly doesn’t give a shit about it’s long-term users.

I guess from here on out I’m a… Lemming? Lemmyzen? Lemmy user?

Anyway thanks for having me! Reddit was shit anyway. I’ve been without it for a week now, and my life has definitely improved lol

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
      35·
      4 days ago

      Bullshit.

      I’ve been on Reddit for 9yrs, and have seen loads of recycled post content, which is definitely a thing. Even for the karma-farmers, though, there’s at least a usefulness in bringing interesting content to new users who hadn’t seen it before. And yeah, sometimes bots will replicate comments in such threads from years earlier. This is also a thing.

      But across my ~dozen curated streams I see about 10% of that stuff, and 90% actual fresh content, including actual commenters that one can interact with if one merely tries. (have you?)

      So part of my point is this-- if you’re browsing vanilla Reddit and complaining about the experience, then you’re telling me that you haven’t made any significant attempt to set up your Reddit acct properly, up to and including failing to set up RES properly.

      And if so, what you’re telling me in short here is that you don’t know what you’re talking about.

      • isekaihero@ani.social
        1·
        2 days ago

        I have to completely disagree. I spent a long time building up karma on my account, thousands of posts, contributing to my favorite communities, and one snarky comment on a ragebait post got my account banned by a reddit admin on a power trip. Multiple appeals later, it’s still banned. There’s no sensible reason to justify a site-wide permaban on an account with such a long history of constructive posts for one snarky post that caused someone to be insulted.

        Their admins are absolutely deranged and yes it completely ruins the entire website. It’s basically insufferable to continue using reddit. The power-tripping admins have flushed the entire site down the toilet. Lemmy is the best alternative at the moment, and supposedly it should be basically impossible to get banned from all of lemmy. I think the worst you can get here is an instance ban? 513 instances so far. You would have your work cut out for you.

        • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
          1·
          24 hours ago

          You’re not disagreeing with anything I said. You’re talking about a completely different issue which I’m certainly sympathetic to.

          Because I do get the sense that users are more easily banned these days at the admin level. Having slow or non-existent customer service doesn’t seem to be helping either, based on the anecdotes you all are sharing.

          Btw, feel free to list or PM me your Reddit account name. I can run it past some reputation checkers to check it out…

          • isekaihero@ani.social
            2·
            20 hours ago

            My main was vtuber-love. I also posted under isekai-hero and DemonLordDoom.

            https://www.reddit.com/user/vtuber-love/ https://www.reddit.com/user/isekai-hero/ https://www.reddit.com/user/DemonLordDoom/

            I have filed multiple appeals and contacted the mods using several alts. The last message I got suggested I’ve been banned for “multiple repeated content violation under my alternate accounts” or something like that, which I think means they’re keeping my ban in place because I posted under alts while my main was banned.

            But the ban on my main account was bogus. Which puts them in a catch-22. If my main account didn’t deserved to be banned, then I wasn’t breaking any rules by posting on alts.

            It seems like they just have a stick up their butt. I have apologized multiple times. I’ve informed them I never plan to post on that subreddit ever again. I’ve suggested a temporary ban instead, like 1 week would be fine. But nothing seems to get through to them. How can they be so completely inflexible?

            • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
              1·
              20 hours ago

              My goodness…

              Sorry if you felt I was rude, above, mate.
              I’ll try to take a closer look when I get a chance. :S

              Good hunting, in any case!