Thank you Spez for banning my account of nine years for voicing my political opinion! I made many contributions to communities over the years and now you’ve lost that so good fucking bye.

  • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Yup, they banned me for 7 days because saying Luigi didn’t deserve to go to jail for what he did is apparently ‘encouraging violence’. I appealed and it was lifted, but not before I got another message identical to yours. In my 14 years of reddit I have never had more than a single account, so I appealed that too. I’m not banned anymore but I got a message saying the second appeal was denied and the ban would stay in place. I think reddit is just falling over itself in its eagerness to frog-march to Der Fuhrer spez’s new fashy bullshit.

  • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Reddit has turned into a complete shithole the past two years. The sooner it gets taken out back and bludgeoned to death, the better.

    Personally, I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t been banned at least once from that place.

    • Libra00@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I went 13 years without being banned, even though I spent most of my time on there debating politics and religion which frequently got heated and had never even been temp-banned from a subreddit. Now I’ve been banned 4 times in the last year for total bullshit, 2 of which happened yesterday, so things have definitely gone downhill.

  • TeoTwawki@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I got banned from half the subs on reddit for trying to explain the scunthorpe problem on programming related sub, because all that is what happens when everyone uses the same automod that has the exact problem I was trying to explain and they also ban you from subs you’ve never even been to because they share a naughtylist of ppl who use the c word.

    for anyone that’s never heard of it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

    reddit admins and mods are just using idiotic automation to shoot first and ask questions never

    and also to help the billionaires not have to look at things they don’t like so elongated muskrats don’t get thier feewings hurt

  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Nice permanent ban!

    I left for much less; A 24-hour suspension. Though to be honest, that was literally just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

    I got suspended for using the word “retard” in a scientifically and non-offensive context (ex: put bread in the fridge to retard the growth of mold). No way to appeal that obviously retar-- ridiculous decision.

    • bugg@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 days ago

      It’s truly astounding, isn’t it? Like, is there any investment that hasn’t totally killed the product? You can feel when a company switches over too to the investors. It doesn’t matter what the product is.

      Like, take the website ModCloth. Started as a vintage fashion reseller. It was like a little community that was attached to a e-commerce store.

      Walmart subsidiary bought them out. Changed over the website. Deleted everyone’s usernames, information, and profiles. And with it over a decade of user posts and photos. Website stopped selling any good quality vintage style clothes. The entire reason anyone shipped there. It’s just like drop shopped tshirts with stolen art now. What the fuck.

      I can think of a hundred more examples. Investors buying any company should sound like a banshee scream.

    • brax@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      It’s always been like that. They’re parasite - they ruin the thing they latch on to, then they jump ship with fat stacks of cash and move on to the next product to kill.

  • daannii@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I recently lost my 13 year old account for telling a Nazi troll that their actions have consequences.

    Still trying appeals but not optimistic.

    Literally thousands of unpaid work done as a moderator of 4 subs during that time.

    … Im so bitter.

    Now I’m bitter for you too.

    Who is going to create content or mod subs if they kick out all of us veterans?