I was just interested to see how much had changed since December when I was randomly banned with no reason given and the appeal went unheard.
I was just planning to browse and not log in but it immediately gave me a pop-up notification to create an account.
Curious if it would allow me, I submitted the application and it went through without problem.
I didn’t want to draw too much attention to myself, so I didn’t comment or post for the first month.
Then, I made another mistake. I got invested, again and it didn’t take long before it inevitably became political.
I posted a reply to someone who had clearly been chugging the orange kool-aid. Nothing terrible, just what I thought was objective reality, easily verifiable through past reporting through many credible media outlets.
But, reddit is going to reddit. Somehow objective reality has been classified as hate speech on reddit.
I’m not surprissd. Just a little disappointed.
I appealed, I do not expect a reply.
Previously, I had been on reddit for 10 years without much incident.
This time I lasted only 2 months
Edit:
They manually reviewed it and kept the ban!
I got banned for racism … for making fun of Vogons. They’re not even a race, and more importantly, they don’t even exist.
My cousin’s permaban was for saying “I won’t let a single Saiyan live” in a dragon ball sub. Saiyans are not real.
And then actual, unchecked racism is rampant.
And then actual, unchecked racism is rampant.
This is the key. Moderation is both heavy-handed AND not fit for purpose.
Facebook had the same problem a few years ago, and they “fixed” it by not bothering to moderate any more.
REDDIT is heading towards that. it will be a clone of X ANd facebook. the admins arnt bothering to listen to most appeals anyways.
Its definitely Ai moderating that, it look for key phrases or words, like “live, or something referring to unalive”
Don’t forget reddit also allows pedophilia from creeps like srgrafo to have massive subreddits with over 100k people in it.
What?
Don’t worry bro, it’s just anime girls, they only look 14, they are actually adults so it’s fine.
-srgrafo
Wait, srgrafo’s a pedo creep? When did that come out?
who is this srgrafo person?
He is is tje guy behind r/Chloe which is underage anime girl porn he draws.
I guess I just didn’t connect those dots. I figured drawing people skinny was just a stylistic choice.
I hope you didn’t threaten to feed a vogon’s grandmother to the ravenous bugblatter beast of trall?
No, that would have been an automod ban – and perfectly understandable.
My cat’s name is Clark, which gradually sometimes became Clark-a-doodle, which became Doodle, which became Doodlebug, which became Bug and occasionally Buggle.
When I’m frustrated with him, it’s now sometimes Frettled Gruntbuggly.
My cat Martha somehow became “Muffin Sweetie”.
On second thought, let’s not go to Reddit. It is a silly place.
*A fascist place.
You can get banned from reddit for saying you would have shot Hitler.
dont even need to say anything, looking at it wrong will get you shadowbanned: posting too fast, too much, or too similar to another comment, or positng too soon after account creation will get you banned. or somehow your browser or ip changes to suddenly too.
you can get banned from reddit for saying that people like Hitler shouldn’t exist
what in the absolute fuck
Censorship and fascism.
its how facebook operates, they just want users to doomscroll the site, and dont want actual users.
i don’t even understand what is happening in the screenshot. the comment you replied to seems to make the case that he is at fault, and used it as an example to someone defending someone else who incited something but didn’t actively participate. what’s the context here?
Yeah, they attempted to go abstract to try to prove I don’t entirely know what
i think they either agree that he was culpable or they used the assumption that you would find him culpable as an argument that inciting violence does make one guilty to some degree.
the problem is there isn’t really any evidence that the left called for his head (especially a head that big; even the shooter knew he couldn’t penetrate that dome with mere bullets), and certainly not anyone of significance… while the jan6 was incited by the most powerful person in the world.
For every legit user banned for even casual talk of violence against Christian fascists, they replace them with a dozen fucking bots.
or, reddit is only going after the lowest hanging fruit, and leaving propaganda bots mostly untouched. they only do something when public complaints makes a stink about these bots. i noticed this trend, propaganda bots are rampant, but there more or less very little way to remove them. the massive purges, filters have been going after real users, OF accounts, or link sharing types. by the way it only sets back the latter 2 anyways temporarily, while IRL who arent using ban evasion methods are permanently banned.
which sub was this? was r/conservative, you get banned very easily, plus any bans you recieve automatically flags your account by the site, and some mods have connections with admins.
And AI-generated user profiling. Like say if you hate fascists in general, admire a certain Luigi and even talk about committing violence against fascists, the mods/admins will pull up that profile and use it to slap a ban.
They like hobbyists. They don’t want hobbyists talking about progressive politics and propaganda of the deed.
I got perma banned without a single word. Hadn’t done anything other than maybe miss a few rules on a sub, but nothing which warrented a ban. Maybe a headsup that I forgot a rule. The level of dictatorship they run over there is pretty wild. Fairly certain it’s just A.I/bots running wild, flagging for all the wrong reasons. The worst part is that they don’t even read or answer the appeals. I literally sent 10 over the course of a year, because I had so much information stored for my health journey. Did they care? Nope.
Same here. Ive been banned twice for no reason and no answer from reddit
Fuck Reddit I hope that shithole is destroyed soon.
Reddit doesn’t want users. They don’t ban you for breaking the rules; they ban you once they determine you’re not a bot.
That same shit happens right here on lemmy.
Fuck Reddit
And fuck Spez
he looks like an alien.
Huh interesting that you can say the most vile shit over there as long as it’s towards the “correct” people you won’t get banned.
The same thing will happen here if we’re not vigilant. Here’s the problem:
Conservatives love trolling, and they don’t care if they break every rule to push their agenda. Progressives do not love trolling as much.
A troll is out to start a fight and to cause problems. This means that conservatives are out there in every subreddit/community trolling. One way to troll is to become an expert at reporting things. Read all comments trying to find anything that could get them banned. If trolls don’t find something that can get their targets banned, then they can join the conversation. Either trolls can pretend like they agree with them, and see if you can’t get them to say something that’s technically against the rules, or they can argue with them, and troll them just within the bounds of the rules, in the hopes that they’ll retaliate outside of the rules, so they can be reported.
Meanwhile, progressives are less likely to troll. They’re not looking for reasons to report. They’re trying to discuss the issues, not abuse the system.
And conservative moderators are going to ban people for reporting things if they detect that there is political disagreement, making it more difficult to bother reading and participating. Meanwhile normal moderators will judge based on the actual reports.
they are also known to brigade and mass report someone, plus alot of them are propaganda bots too.
i like how reddit made thier “violations” more vague, identity based hate can mean anything lol. im guessing that now includes republican promoting misinformation is protected speech. making easier for one to be banned.
reddit allows heavy astroturfing by the right, drowning out left leaning comments
Also I once received a message from a Reddit admin, and I thought their grasp on the English language was… tenuous. It wouldn’t surprise me if they offshore people to do this work, and if they don’t speak English very well, then there’s no chance for them to make great decisions about violations.
Ai moderation allows them plausible deniability, so they can ignore peoples appeals for bans, most of them. alot of thier responses are most likely AI generated too.
We don’t love trolling as much because we have actual jobs.
It’s not just a matter of time, but a matter of mental fortitude.
I’m sure anyone could find tons of content to get conservatives banned, but that requires reading conservative content.
You know, this might actually be a good use case for everyone’s least favorite tech… AI. You could find bannable content without having to wade through all of the surrounding mind numbing garbage.
I’m really looking forwards to post-AI bubble tech because its going to be really super interesting seeing all of the creative usecases for machine learning where it actually works and can do well at what its meant to do. Machine learning has been a purely academic field and the sudden crazy amounts of money being thrown around for it over the last 3 years is absolutely insane even without that context. Now there’s tons of nice tools that didn’t exist before for working with AI models and tons of new education that didn’t exist previously. Its going to get really interesting for sure!
i known someone pre-pandemic that wanted to get into AI research, i asusme machine learning before the pandemic, yea i was discussing that with him, but he has a degree in another field and i told him t just get a job in tech right off the bat, since he alot of experience in programming, wasting his time trying to get a MASTERS, and plus universities often dont allow a 2nd bachelors which hes trying to get for some reason.
