For the life of me I can’t remember where this happened, but this was in one of the heavily moderated “safe space” subreddits.

I said something sarcastic, which some powermod interpreted as being against the rules. I didn’t think it was, even if it had been taken at face value.

Problem was, I was in middle of dealing with what I now think was a mental health episode of some description so I ended up arguing with the mod in PMs. Wasn’t fruitful, dude was also rude as hell because I asked them to chill.

When things looked up a few days later I was like “yeah, screw them”. Left that community. Left Reddit entirely for a month.

I now realise this is one of those moments that turned me away from socialising in general. There are dipshits out there who just don’t care.

(Not saying heavily moderated safe space communities are bad! Just maybe not have uncaring career dipshits moderating them. Maybe have clear rules and enforce them consistently.)

I posted a in a r/cocaine a sub I contributed to a lot , and someone commented to which I replied asking for clarification of what 3.5 meant, grams, ounces… I mean we are a worldwide system with different metrics. The bastards banned me. For like a year. The weird thing was that one day I saw my profile avatar had changed and I got a message to sign up. So I did with the same email address and things were great. I comment on a post and got banned for life. This lead me here. This is my first interaction.

for reporting in r/techonology, “you overreported, so its abuse” this was at the beginning when trump and elon were beginning all of thier doge cuts. we are banning you for 7 days, this also triggered a full sitewide ban on all my other accounts in FEB. AND many of these range from 5-10+years old acct.

and then recently as 1-2months ago my only account had a comment removal by a mod, then apparently shadowbanned after they forced a password change, when i decided to log in my account from firefox fork.

and then we found out from other sites and forums that reddit is banning indiscriminately so there will be less users on the site, that way its easier to manage, and force a read-only site.

Apparently one cannot say anything about US citizens that the bots don’t like.

No reason at all during the great purge following Trump’s inauguration

I was told that I had harassed a mod, but I hadn’t interacted with anyone

Seems to me that they just purged large numbers of users with anti-Trump content on their account

I was on reddit for nearly 10 years without issue, suddenly I was sitewide banned and every attempt at an appeal went completely unanswered

I created an account that was immediately shadowbanned. Before I posted or commented anything. I used a temporary mail address and I guess that was it. I used to create a new account every couple of months and that was fine for a long time, I think I still remember around 30 of them. But at some point it became a hassle.

From a sub: Banned from /r/Gaming for telling someone the specific number for the .BIN file needed for PlayStation emulation on a discussion about emulation.

I didn’t link shit. The user themselves had a list of .BIN files they were looking at and wasn’t sure what they needed. I just told them which one they needed. Banned for piracy. The discussion itself wasn’t locked and they didn’t even remove my comment.

From the whole site: Posted “I concur” on a post of a woman wearing a shirt that said “it is always moral to punch a Nazi.” The whole thread was seemingly used by a Nazi admin as bait, because they kept the main post up while banning every commenter agreeing with it.

It was over-turned after I appealed 3 separate times. But it was when I really started looking for alternatives to Reddit. Not more than a month later, they announced the API changes and someone mentioned Lemmy. Now I am here.

Ban evading, on the one and only account I ever had. How I could have been evading a ban on an account that never existed is a mystery. But now I’m IP banned, and they don’t care about the appeals.

Before that, the account was temp banned for saying “trans women are women”, which was somehow “promoting violence”.

Also got banned from some parenting sub I’d never visited for posting in an LGBT sub.

A few years back I upvoted a few comments in a post my husband had also interacted with and got hit with a temp ban for multi accounting.

I was never banned. I stopped participating after the API debacle. I still read on sub daily via old.reddit.com but it is busily dying. It will probably be dead before they kill off old.reddit.com.

I was banned from r/therightcannotmeme because my profile pic (same as here) is somehow bad. Had to pester the mods to even get an explanation, and they replied with one of those fancy terms marxists use. Imperialist? Reactionist?

Then - much more influential to me - I got kicked out from modding a sub (the only sub I ever modded) because I asked the head mod too many questions, or questioned their way of modding. Powertripping that person was.

I don’t like when people shit on mods, because moderation is necessary. But that person basically proved all the haters right for me. And the silence of the other mods in that sub.

I used to browse Reddit from /r/all and I posted a comment on what I later realised was /r/conservative. I was subsequently banned from 20+ subs. They have bots checking subs they don’t like and collectively ban contributors to those subs.

On reddit you get banned if enough people report you, not because you actually deserve it

Not a perma ban but still.

Back when I used to be on Reddit much, I got auto banned from r/latestagecapitalism for having too much karma on certain subreddit they disliked. They weren’t necessarily political in nature (I think I only frequented couple of political subs then and they were non US in nature) but apparently the concept of not breaking any rules on your sub but still being banned just because I participate in some place they dislike was dubious.

Not related, but I think I was very active on reddit from 2016-2021. I had gone through couple of user IDs then (stupidly forgotten the 2FA mechanism for both and never backed the recovery code :p) and had a decent curated feed. I still sporadically open it but hardly participate / post. The only thing worth keeping me there is old Reddit and RES which makes keyboard navigation a breeze.

Not permabanned but subbanned for promoting violence in the conspiracy sub about human trafficking (Couple of years ago when abduction footages went viral, crypto black market trades etc) the more I read about how it operates the more anger I got… also for critisizing cosplay sexualization in videogame subs… it’s just so tiresome to be policed around.