I think I finally reached my breaking point with reddit (about time). Earlier this month the humorless admins of /r/teslamotors banned me for posting a video of my custom charge port cover. A day or so later I mistakenly posted on the sub using my secondary account. That’s on me. The /r/teslamotors admins gave me a permaban and reddit gave me 7 day site ban. I can take my lumps so whatever.
However, apparently I commented today on /r/teslamotors using the account that received the permaban. Dumbass reddit gave me another 7 day site ban for ban evasion. WTF? Either a software bug allowed me to comment or /r/teslamotors lifted my ban for some reason.
Neither of those constitute ban evasion IMHO. I’m also tired of using old.reddit.com in phone browser since they killed apis.
I got not only a permaban, but an IP ban for saying ‘Punching nazis is a moral good’ in a thread about people discussing how best to drive cars into crowds of peaceful protesters (with diagrams).
No one else in the thread got banned.
Fuck reddit, fascist shithole. Used to be the best site on the internet till the alt-right took over.
I never thought that I’d be deleting my reddit account before facebook.
You should delete your Facebook too
and xitter. I don’t post anything on there and only read shit that linked from elsewhere.
I got a permaban for telling a Nazi to follow Hitler’s example and shoot himself. Oopsie. 10/10 would do it again.
(That’s actually what triggered me to look for Reddit alternatives, years ago. Or rather the fact that they left my mod account unbanned, even banning all the others.)
What sub was that in?
it was one of the ‘dank’ subs that I found browsing /new, not dankmemes but adjacent.
/dankwolfpack or something
. Earlier this month the humorless admins of /r/teslamotors banned me for posting a video of my custom charge port cover.
This was one of reddit mod’s famous rando-bans. Something you could have never foreseen and a warning would have solved.
3rd time will be an admin permaban. This is part of the enshitification that mismanagement paid for.
I had a 3 day ban earlier this month for my first bad report lmao. To me, it read as hate/violence, and I had been curious as to what was actionable vs. not. Had 5 reports sent, first 3 successfully acted against (blatant racism/calls for genocide etc.). First one that was flagged as bad got me a 3 day ban. The second bad report didn’t seem to do anything but have a message sent my way.
Had a second ban recently and decided I was sick of fighting their garbage system. I had paused scrapping my 10 year old account due to a lot of the account tools breaking down, but I’ve found one that let’s me alter all old posts and scrub them, so I’ve resumed that.
And now they want to sell the content of my old banned account while refusing me access lmao.
They’re banning for reporting now‽
Yup. Not op but I sure did. It’s an “abuse of the report feature” and bannable if an administrator thinks you’re being too uppity.
I made a habit of mass reporting all the very obvious spambots clogging up my favorite subs and that got me banned suddenly, with no warning, for report abuse. You’re not allowed to interrupt their stream of fake bot traffic that drives up the valuation.
No joke. Blew my mind.
Just to be clear, I mean full on reddit account ban, not subreddit ban.
if
droidsSpez could think, there’d be none of us here.It doesn’t matter to him. Have you ever seen the home page of snapshot? That’s what he’s going for.
it’s not like [human] Spez can think much either, so maybe that future is closer than we think.
we’re already seeing the results with Twitter, reddit’s just a bit behind the curve.
Guy on Reddit: Fat people are disgusting!
Me: the coolest people I know dont give a shit, they have better things to do than get upset that someone has a weight problem
Reddit guy: Your a loser!
Me: Get a life! You must be projecting your dissatisfaction with your own body.Permabanned for harrassment. Didnt bother fighting it. Couldnt be happier, not enguaging with 50 thousand teenagers has helped my sanity
Slowly deleting my Reddit post history…
Instead of deleting it, flood it with Lorem Ipsum spam, give their AI buyers some ‘real’ quality content.
AI generated hardcore furry fanfic is a good start.
Lolol the mods here are way worse. Drama and defederation every few weeks lolol.
Are you really not sick of this bit yet
Wat?
How do they know you were using a secondary account?
They track all that
When you logout and login again, the tracking cookies are still present. Also, if you use the mobile app to login with multiple accounts, Reddit will mark those accounts as belonging to the same person. IP address is a factor but probably not as important because a large number of people share the same IP addresses these days thanks to cgnat and VPN.
IP, MAC address, and several permacookies. Even clearing your cache doesn’t help but formatting your entire computer, spoofing your MAC address, and getting a new IP address from your ISP does.
The MAC address is only visible in the local network, so it’s not visible to reddit if you’re not directly locally connected to their server.
Oh I wish I was still so naive. The world was a lot simpler then.
That’s not naivety it’s a basic understanding of how networking works
Sure, and all of that goes out the window on a mobile app that doesn’t play by browser rules.
And 96% of reddit is on mobile.
Have you ever once thought that this may have been a reason for them cutting off all the 3rd parties behind ridiculous fee schemes?
Sure, and all of that goes out the window on a mobile app that doesn’t play by browser rules.
This has nothing to do with browser rules. It’s how tcp/ip works.
And 96% of reddit is on mobile
And 100% of phones have a unique hardware ID visable to any app with the “read phone state” permission. Why the hell would anyone use a MAC address to identify you? And which MAC address would they use? The wifi nic? The mobile nic? The Bluetooth MAC?
Look, it doesn’t matter if its a MAC or a fingerprint or an invisible evercookie, if you DON’T format your PC and get a different IP address, you WILL be banned for ban evasion.
I know this, I’ve had over 20 accounts banned from reddit in the last six years and several of them have been lifebans. Trust me when I say I’ve tried 20 different iterations of data security and the only one that works involves a hard drive wipe.
most probably ip or MAC address.
Similar happened to me. I got banned from 2westerneurope4u and another mod unbanned me a few weeks later. So I commented again.
Permaban from Reddit for evading a ban.
Any time I created a new account it would be banned for ban evasion.
So I can’t comment on Reddit unless I set up an account with a VPN.
Fuck all that.
I once got permabanned from r/eyeblech for posting a joke on there. I wasn’t even the first one to do so. But I was able to appeal it.
For those who don’t know, r/eyeblech was a gore subreddit. I posted a video of putting milk in the bowl first, then cereal. I guess that was way too far xD.
Damn son, people have been tried in The Hague for less 🙀
They should just set whole reddit to read only mode and be done with it. They are banning people left and right for the dumbest things. Eventually people will just stop replying because fear on a ban. And that will be the end of it. It will have a digg death.
I used to mod two pretty large subs (iirc something like a combined ~400k subscribers) and we had no way to detect ban evasion other than the user being stupid and obviously giving themselves away (eg. “fuck you mods, I’ll just keep making new accounts”). This was fairly recently and I left the site and quit modding about a month after they pulled the API bullshit and booted Apollo and other apps.
So unless reddit added additional tools for mods, your story doesn’t quite add up here.
Welcome to Lemmy! Fair warning, a vocal part of the user base here is anti-Tesla.
Most are really anti-Musk.
It’s not like there aren’t vocal anti-Elon/Tesla/EV people on reddit. I wanted an EV and didn’t consider any other vehicle because of the range and charging network. My car is almost 5 years old and we’ll see what’s out there in another 5-10 years.
I got banned simply for logging into the site with a VPN supposedly for ban evasion. I had never been banned previously.
You’re not alone and it really is that pants-on-head dumb. They have so many users that it doesn’t matter. They don’t care if some legit users get banned.
I got banned from pcmasterrace for mentioning the old precursor to hydrohomies. Seeing as how it contained the “n world”, I took precaution to censor myself and use asterisks “water******”. I was banned just for insinuating the name of the subreddit. Nevermind the subreddit was good-natured, open and friendly to all (except soda drinkers). And of course the mod that banned me was was telling me bullshit in my appeal like “quit trying to be cute”. What an asshole.
I got permabanned for making a topically-relevant meme reference lol
Apparently there’s very few actual mods, so they’ve all become jaded fuckasses who just automatically assume you’re the most low down scum imaginable if you break the rules and appealing the ban is just you trying to get a platform to sea lion at them.
sea lion 😂 what a great description!
Can someone explain this reference?
See this comic strip for reference:
On the internet it has become common to refer to the sort of behaviour that the sea lion from the comic is showing as “sealioning”.Look up “2014 sea lion comic”
I would be bitter too if I did free work for a guy making 190 mill a year. Reddit mods are the saddest of usefull idiots
I don’t feel sorry for them at this point.
Yeah, I really hate “career mods” who run hundreds of subreddits. Theres people who do it because they love their community and want to see it thrive, and then theres career mods who do it because they lust over having power.
Someone else using the VPN’s gateway was banned, and reddit doesn’t give a shit and just bans anyone who uses it.
I know 2 people caught in VPN bans, neither of them had ever even received a warning before.
that’s what drove me away too!
well it was a comment on worldnews, while it was getting pro-israel spammed…
i was temporarily banned… like 3 days… then i forgot while on another account, and on christmas they permanently banned both accounts… one of which was 18 years old
my comment that “circumvented the ban” was a very innocent pun… one sentence of just some super cheesy wordplay
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appeals were denied without any explanation or human response.
and there’s just no way to have a conversation with any human involved.
fuck redditmeanwhile the place is crawling with sock puppets with 40 accounts, but they pay so they don’t get banned.
i’m pretty sure they’re just trying to purge way for the capitalists and their ipo
