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.
Its definitely Ai moderating that, it look for key phrases or words, like "live, or something referring to unalive"
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.
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?
https://old.reddit.com/r/chloe/
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".