My Reddit Account got banned for the dumbest reason.

In a post regarding climate change I called another user an “Ignorant Slut” like that line from the Office. Anyways got permanently banned site wide and I just can’t help but wonder if that was necessary.

It’s not like I say that all the time, it was a one off instance and they just remove me from their site. I don’t mind it so much since it’s just a Reddit Account but it is really annoying since I can’t help but feel the admins had it out for me as they banned my account unjustly before and then reinstated it. But this time the ignorant slut was all the reason they needed to remove me from their existence.

Anyways just wanted to rant to the void on how dumb Reddit can be sometimes.

jordanlund,
@jordanlund@lemmy.one avatar

The OG line is “Jane, you ignorant slut.” from Saturday Night Live in the 70s.

But then most people online aren’t old enough to remember that…

youtu.be/c91XUyg9iWM

Dozenbeer,

I was permanently banned site wide for politely suggesting to not allow cosplay posts (that always market onlyfans) in r/gaming, as it was flodded by softcore porn. Often times not even cosplays from games.....site wide ban with no warnings in the past....I promote my stuff on reddit and it was taken away for something miniscule like voicing my opinion.

patchw3rk,
@patchw3rk@kbin.social avatar

I've been on Reddit for like 12 years and I was never banned by an admin. The fact that you got banned twice is sus.

I did get banned from blackpeopletwitter for being white.

m3t00,
@m3t00@lemmy.world avatar

called someone a cunt on fb. bots kicked me in 2 seconds. 30 days for harassment. my 3 months on Tw ended for less. disposable, all of it

BatteryBunny,
@BatteryBunny@kbin.social avatar

I remember I called something "Really Stupid" in response to something someone else said that was really stupid, and I was banned for using an ablest slur.

keeb420,

I got banned from /myrderedbyaoc for colonialism for being for aid to ukraine and that going forward they would.remember it and be great allies. On the day aoc voted for aid to ukraine.

derf82,

It seems like Reddit decided to look for any excuse to ban anyone talking negatively about their API changes or talking about Lemmy.

I was banned in one alt from a sub for ban evasion on a sub I was accidentally banned a few minutes from. I didn’t notice and posted from my main. All accounts were instantly permabanned. I don’t think it was a coincidence it was like 2 days after I dared to question spez in his AMA.

Aesthesiaphilia,

Classic authoritarian move. Make so many rules, everyone has to break one at some point, even accidentally. Then you can pick and choose when to enforce.

Buffalox,

I wouldn’t use that kind of insider joke on a social media. Chances are that at most 10% get it. The rest will be rightfully offended.

Aesthesiaphilia,

Not rightfully. Mistakenly offended.

bubu,

The admins are probably ignorant sluts, I guess.

toasteranimation, (edited )
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alladin316,

Almost the same reason I got banned as well.

lvxferre,
@lvxferre@lemmy.ml avatar

The administration of that site is as context-illiterate as most of the userbase. They don’t get that an expression like “ignorant slut” changes meaning depending on context, and that in your case you were drawing a reference to pop culture.

That can be used both ways, by the way. When I still had Reddit accounts, you have no idea on how much I capitalised on that context illiteracy to insult other users. Things like:

  • “An actual human being, unlike you, would quickly understand this.”
  • “I understand that the concept of intellectual honesty might be a bit too complex for something like you to grasp, but you can always try it.”
  • "Contrariwise to what you thought through your whole life, thinking doesn’t hurt."
  • Heavily implying that the user is a pig or barn animal.
  • Heavy usage of “it” towards users behaving in a specially irrational (obtuse, assumptive, wishful thinking) way.

Can you guess how many bans I got out of that? Zero. The only time that I got a site-wide ban was for telling a Nazi something like “if you like your daddy Hitler so much then shoot yourself like it did”.

loz,

I was once suspended for making a dumb dick joke, something like “that guy must be hung” (it made sense in context, stupid sense, but sense nonetheless). This was reported as a threat of violence or whatever. I appealed, explaining that I wasn’t wishing anyone to be hanged, merely suggesting that they must have a large penis and got my account back.

Meanwhile racist dogwhistles and rampant transphobia abound with little consequence.

Aesthesiaphilia,

I swear they never look at context. I got permabanned for QUOTING something racist that someone else said. The person who said it was left alone.

tallwookie,
@tallwookie@lemmy.world avatar

eh, it’s reddit so who cares? dying platform is dying

Elliott,

Had a 10 year old account get banned for something minor…which I appealed and got restored. But it left me to realize there are no actual rules on reddit…just a collection of echo chambers. I deleted all comments and the account itself shortly after. It’s been sad watching Reddit die.

Candelestine,

Yeah, I strongly suspect large numbers of trolls are making very, very heavy use of the reporting features.

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