Got banned for rule 3.

I’ll stay vague here for the sake of not giving TMI, but I will answer questions about specifics if needed.

I was on a NSFW sub dedicated to famous people in the industry. I shared some images there of some of these people as it’s pretty much the whole point of the sub.

Everything I shared was commercially produced, and legally available for free. These were not random individuals. These were some of the most well known people as far as this goes. Their faces show up in memes on SFW subs.

There is possibly one exception to this however, and I think this may be the reason I was banned. I was under the impression one of them was well seated in the commercial industry. But I’m thinking, actually, they mostly do content through social media and OF. Still, this person pop up everywhere on reddit from people who are definitely not her.

The message I got did not specify, but this is my best guess why I got banned. I did appeal, and it was rejected. Part of me thinks it’s something else. But I have no idea what it would be.

On one hand I’m kinda miffed that I was banned for posting popular adult actresses on a subreddit that was made for posting popular adult actresses.

On the other hand I’m not sure how bad I should feel about this.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/67756589

So my username on reddit was u/IAmUser1234567 I had 17k+ Karma, i didn't do anything they just banned my account. Now i guess they have created a digital fingerprint or marked my ip address, because if i create a new account it gets banned almost instantly.

I am loving lemmy(using Voyager on my android phone) so much. Reddit anyways now just contains shity cringe content, it is becoming like insta, I am happy to join lemmy family :)

A few months ago I got permabanned from Reddit for multiple violations over time. Most violations were self-deprecating humor or suicidal jokes, that got falsely flagged as rule 1 (inciting violence against someone else) due to their shitty AI moderation.

I didn't appeal the initial violations because I was stupid and didn't expect it would snowball into a permaban.

After I got my permaban, I managed to appeal most of the previous infractions that led to the permaban, but the final infraction had it's appeal denied so I'm still considered permabanned.

Obviously I cannot appeal a second time, and Reddithelp doesn't provide any way to contact the Reddit team, the "My account has been wrongly suspended" option doesn't let you send a request... Is it genuinely impossible to get in contact with a human on their team ??

I use redlib to browse some reddit communities - local town subreddit, language learning,and boydinnerdiaries which is fun to read.

I usually browse with nsfw unmarked, but sometimes searching innocuous terms will bring up porn stuff that wasn't marked as nsfw. E.g just now i searched 'spanish' and a video of two naked womem came up, if you want to try and replicate as proof.

I guess this is no big deal, as I don't autoplay media, and i just scrolled om to the content i wanted. But it would be nice if anyone who still has a reddit account could help report these lingering unmarked nsfw posts . It makes the NSFW/SFW mode on Redlib pointless (though i've just remembered i can tick to blur nsfw images lol).

I don't know why it came to the top of redlib when i searched "spanish." Anyone who has both a reddit acct and also browses redlib can also help identify ehen these occur.

Similia similibus curantur...

It's a shame really, Porn, Interesting posts labeled as NSFW and NSFW profiles pretty much gone.

They ask you to verify with Persona who they say they keep your information for 3 days

It was just a simple place where people could post their own open source projects.. but apparently Reddit hates Open Source

Has anyone managed successfully prompt Injection on Reddit's admins that are now clearly bots?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/67172855

Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com.

The new requirement will take effect “over the next month,” a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to “tighten how automated systems access Reddit.”

The Reddit employee wrote:

Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and Redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in.

Most people believe that social media discourse is negative and divisive. Here we show how this negativity can evolve even when users are not motivated to be negative. We propose that social media users seek to differentiate themselves from other users, and it is easier to differentiate oneself through negativity than positivity because negative information is more heterogeneous and counternormative than positive information. This makes users increasingly likely to post negative comments as a conversation unfolds and it becomes more challenging to make unique contributions. Analyzing 2.05 billion comments from 2,150 Reddit communities shows that comments become more negative over time, both within threads and community histories. This trend toward negativity is mediated by the semantic uniqueness of comments, suggesting that it arises from users differentiating themselves. This trend is strongest when initial dialogue is positive, making negative comments highly counternormative. We replicate these patterns in an experiment simulating social media dialogue (n = 3,685). Participants become more negative over time, but only when incentivized to be unique, and especially when dialogue begins positively. These findings suggest that the structure of social media platforms interacts with human motivation to foster a drift toward negativity over time in online discourse.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1231775/reddit-will-require-you-to-log-in-to-use-old-reddit-com

::: spoiler Post Content

Hi there, u/boat-botany here working on Community Safety. 

A few weeks ago we shared some of the work we’re doing to tighten how automated systems access Reddit while preserving the tools that help moderators and communities thrive. As a continuation of that work, we’ll be rolling out changes to how Old Reddit can be accessed. 

Old Reddit’s logged-out experience is a significant source of abusive scraping and automated traffic on the platform. It’s also an important interface for many long-time mods and redditors. To strike the right balance between preserving your access to Old Reddit while preventing abusive scraping and automated traffic, over the next month we will start requiring everyone to log in. All logged-in users will continue to have access to Old Reddit, and this change will not impact logged-out browsing on reddit.com. :::

This was the text from the post.

The open source world and its volunteers need to migrate to decentralized services as quickly as possible.

Everything is now easier than before for the Big Data, it is very possible in the age of AI to match our habits even according to anonymous data.

The solution is to switch to decentralized / self-hosted systems as quickly as possible.

Linux sub's admins may archive here and announce an official Lemmy sub. Hope all other open source subs will migrate too.

I'm ready to leave RedDEAD!

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1uit5tb/time_to_migrate_lemmy_yeah_its_silent_now_but/

The mods are/Melbourne were sent a private message requesting that a news article about where a dance instructor sexually molests a underage girl.

The mods at r/Melbourne decide to post the entire private message publicly.

Piece from the news article:

Judge Holding detailed how the victim believed the vodka Garnett gave her “contained a drug that incapacitated her” however said it could not be found beyond a reasonable doubt, as the schoolgirl was inexperienced with alcohol.

Mod post: https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1uils6r/a_12minuteold_account_asked_us_to_remove_an_old/

The post that was asked to remove: https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1mv9caf/dance_teacher_groper_sues_underage_victims_friend/

Dear r/melbourne Moderation Team,

I am writing to respectfully request that you review and consider removing the following post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/1mv9caf/dance_teacher_groper_sues_underage_victims_friend/

After carefully reviewing the subreddit rules, I believe this submission raises concerns under multiple community rules and would appreciate the moderation team's assessment.

Rule 7 – No Witch-hunts

This rule prohibits posts that target individuals or groups where the discussion may lead to harassment or the spread of personal information. The linked article prominently identifies a specific individual, and the discussion surrounding the post has the potential to encourage targeted harassment, abuse, or coordinated attacks. Regardless of whether the information originates from a mainstream news source, I believe the resulting discussion may conflict with the purpose of Rule 7, which is to prevent individuals from being targeted by the community.

Rule 6 – Be Respectful

The nature of this post has the potential to generate hostile, abusive, or malicious comments directed at an identifiable individual. I am concerned that the discussion may not remain civil, which is inconsistent with the expectation that users engage respectfully.

Rule 5 – No Hate Speech / Harassment

Although the article itself is not hate speech, discussions involving identifiable individuals can quickly lead to personal abuse, threats, harassment, or bullying. I ask that the moderation team consider whether allowing the post creates an environment contrary to the spirit of this rule.

Rule 11 – No Low Effort Posts

While the submission links to a news article, the discussion appears likely to focus primarily on attacking an individual rather than encouraging constructive discussion about issues affecting Melbourne. This may reduce the quality of discussion within the community.

My concern is not with the reporting itself, but with whether this particular submission is consistent with the subreddit rules intended to prevent harassment, witch-hunts, and uncivil discussion.

I respectfully request that the moderation team review this submission and determine whether it complies with the subreddit rules. If you find that it breaches Rule 7 or any other applicable rule, I kindly ask that you consider removing the post.

Thank you for your time, consideration, and the work you do in moderating the r/melbourne community.

Kind regards, William

Reddit limiting RSS?

I remember seeing someone from #Reddit (staffer iirc?) recently saying they were considering to remove #RSS from the platform.

Then I came across this post (in Italian):
https://thebrainbin.org/m/random/p/770945

The first paragraph picked my attention:

(Translated) Reddit is progressively blocking the access from RSS to its subs (heavily limiting the number of requests).

The OP also points out one can circumvent current limitations by using https://reddit.com/r/%7Bsome_subreddit%7D/new/.rss?feed=mytoken&user=myuser, mytoken and myuser requiring an account.

I haven't seen any other mentions on Reddit limiting the feeds. But considering what led to the Reddit diaspora in 2022, what appears to be an increasing attempt to self-destruction since, the aforementioned consideration to remove RSS, and the OP's workaround which raises privacy concerns and further risking viral IP bans, such a situation doesn't sound unlikely to me.

Still, I ask to be sure, is it something that has been happening indeed, is it a suspicious amount of coincidences, or might it be the beginning of the next stunt by Reddit?

Finally in the truly permabanned club.

They have some type of ban detection. I use a VPN and bounce between logging into my different accounts.

Not for ban evasion but for doxxing, I don't post personal info on my politics account, my hobby accounts are pretty open, etc.

I pissed off somebody and the sub reddit banned me. I go thru and filter that sub out of my accounts. Didnt think about other people using my wifi.

Buddy comes over and posts a single post in that sub. His account and ALL of my accounts are now permabanned.

The reason I know is they AI mod replied then deleted a post about ban evasion to him, so he knew the comment he made on what sub and we pieced it together.

The rest of the msgs I got from reddit made no sense as I didn't post in the sub and until he mentioned the reply it all came together.

I would like to know how they are tracking me as I use a VPN. Kinda makes it useless if it doesn't work as advertised. I put an appeal in, we know how thats going to go...

Updates to follow, not that I'm likely to stay on there. Maybe for my hobby subs.

If you want the classic Reddit experience you need to use old.reddit.com

Apologies up front for the long post, but I want to give a very detailed account, so that anyone who wants can have a clear picture of what happened and judge for themselves what they think.

A little over a half year ago, I woke up one day and could no longer login to my Reddit account. Eventually I learned that my account had been suspended and later permabanned. I legitimately do not know why I was banned. I've tried to appeal many times, but have never gotten a real response.

I don't think that I did anything ban-worthy. I had that account for 6 years and had never been banned from any subreddits nor have even received any warnings. I can't even check my previous posts anymore because (a) I can't login, and (b) most of them have been removed entirely (even completely uncontroversial ones). I have a few theories on why I was banned, but I don't know for certain for anything:

-Theory 1 (most likely): I may have been mistakenly flagged as a minor. This was kind of my own fault, but I made a joke post in r/littlenightmares roleplaying as one of the main characters who was a 9 year old girl doing an "AITA" style post. I thought that it was pretty obvious in context that it was a RP post (it was literally a retelling of the climax of Little Nightmares 2 posted on r/littlenightmares; most people got the joke). I also clearly explained in a comment in that thread that I was not in fact 9 years old, I was 31 years old at the time. I think that several people may have just didn't understand the context of the post and not read that comment and then reported me as underage and then Reddit banned me because they just counted the reports and I hit a critical threshold. I admit, it was stupid of me to make that post in the first place, but I still feel frustrated that that one post might have gotten me banned when spending even just 5 minutes of investigating would reveal that it was clearly a RP post.

-Theory 2 (plausible): It's possible that my account was mistaken for my brother's. He was banned from Reddit for unrelated reasons and I think that he has been doing some ban-evasion. I think that I logged onto Reddit when I was visiting my parents' house and maybe that IP was flagged by Reddit (my brother lived there for about a year or so) so maybe that's why they banned me.

-Theory 3 (plausible): My account may have been hacked. There was a "password reset" request in my email from the day before it was banned that I don't remember ever sending.

-Theory 4 (unlikely): Over a year before I was banned, I did make some posts just discussing death and suicide (not promoting it; I never even hinted that I thought that anyone should go through with suicide). I was in a pretty bad place emotionally at that time, and I just needed somewhere to talk about what was bothering me because I didn't have anywhere to do that at the time. For over a year or two before the ban though, I hadn't brought those up so I think that it's extremely unlikely that this got me banned, but I bring it up because it was probably the closest that I got to actually violating Reddit's rules.

-Theory 5 (unlikely): I could have been banned because I did give some criticism of Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip. Specifically I brought up a direct quote by a minister in the Israeli government about the need to make Gaza "unlivable" and "bringing hell" to the Palestinians and pointed out that it sounded like genocidal language. I brought up that quote, brought up the blockade of food, medicine, and supplies, and said that it sounded genocidal to me. I can't remember when I made these comments, I think it was several months before I was banned and I moved away from those kinds of discussions, so I seriously doubt that this was why I was banned, but I might have been reported as an antisemite by some overzealous people. I bring this up because this is probably the most controversial thing that I ever commented on Reddit.

I genuinely have no clue why I was banned. My general activity on Reddit was: go on r/writing or r/fanfiction and give and ask for advice or ideas on writing or share some of my own ideas and go on r/littlenightmares and present some theories for the story or react to other people's ideas; (occasionally) I'd go on r/selfawarewolves and give a reaction. I was mildly active in r/lgbt, r/girlgamers, and a few other subs (usually fandom ones). I rarely ever got into arguments and I made it a point to be respectful if I did. I never joined, participated in, nor trolled subreddits that I didn't agree with, I would just ignore them and remove them from my feed like I was supposed to.

I've been trying and trying to appeal the ban, but Reddit hasn't bothered responding. It's been a frustrating and demoralizing experience. I don't even have any answers, for all I know none of my above theories are even correct. I literally don't know why I was banned.

After a few weeks of not receiving any responses, I tried to make a new account. It was perma-banned after a day. I made another account a couple months later specifically to ask what was going on and what I was supposed to do, and that one was also perma-banned. And just a few weeks ago I made a third account which has since been perma-banned. I would not have tried to make these accounts (which was technically ban-evasion) if I was given any feedback by Reddit when I appealed, but no I was given no feedback and the admins apparently expected me to trust in their infallible judgment.

I had fun with Reddit, it was a nice resource for me with writing, and now it's just gone and I don't know why nor what I can do to change that. I'm upset with Reddit's administration. I think that they made a mistake and they don't care at all about rectifying it. Now I just want people to hear what happened to me because it might at least add some nuance to discussions about Reddit. Sometimes Reddit does make mistakes in banning people, and sometimes they don't fix them.