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.

Crossposted from https://lemmy.ca/post/66708331

Reddit seems to have introduced sitewide AI moderation bots that are sweeping up users and outright banning them, without warning or explanation, for crimes like including links in their posts. This has started to hit some pretty well-known artists in r/comics.

It's inconsistent and unpredictable - which makes it worse, since you don't know what the rules are. As companies like Reddit give up more and more control to unaccountable machines, this kind of thing is getting more common.

Reddit has always had kind of a strange relationship with contributors and what is often called "self-promotion". On one hand, it wants Content... But it can't seem to decide where it wants the content to come from.

It's nice that we've got alternative spaces like this.

Anyway, have some links:

• More comics:
  • Ongoing series
  • One-offs like this
• Patreon

I know Reddit now has a stupid rule or policy about new accounts posting or commenting. They punish new users for just trying to have a conversation. Why does Reddit hate privacy? Is it just in the system trying to filter out bots? Well, it is doing a shitty job since bots are still a high percentage there. Reddit banned me, even when I was on the new user friendly subs. I tried with multiple locations with a VPN too. This has to make people go to other platforms. Like I did, I moved here.

Yes there are a lot of users and communities there but I constantly get banned for no reason. It's appalling.

Yesterday, I connected using Tor, created an account barely done anything (because you can't do much anyway) and then today it's banned. It happened before, I'm ready to give up now.

It's so frustrating. I really hope they go bust and Lemmy take over. Wishing thinking I know...

I accumulated a high amount of karma on Reddit account and I don't want to put it to waste. So is there is a way to say something useful/worth saying which will get me downvoted(as I can take getting downvoted without getting banned from Reddit as I have enough karma)?

Any ideas here?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/54923731

Some accounts are deleting their posts after a few downvotes. It's devastating on communities like c/asklemmy.

Lemmy doesn't track an account's karma like reddit. So, all downvotes will be isolated to your post or comment and won't affect your account—unless you wrote something truly horrible.

Remember lemmy is a community effort. Deleting a post also removes all comments on it. So you are not only robbing the effort others put in, you are actively removing knowledge from the fediverse. Others won't be able to find it through search and lemmy will seem lonelier than it already is.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/54883410

I wanted to get an outside perspective on my Lemmy experience, so I go on /r/redditalternatives and bring up my experiences that I've described elsewhere here (tl;dr Lemmy communities are either filled with non sequitur ragebait or completely empty).

I get plenty of responses echoing my sentiment and offering suggestions like blocking and filtering. Plenty of others pointing out how Reddit sucks in its own way and how Lemmy addresses those issues (no creepy AI bots pretending to be real people). I feel my OP and the ongoing discussion is constructive and in good faith, and most people myself included express a desire to see Lemmy and the fediverse succeed despite our frustrations. But oops out of nowhere I get muted and banned with no explanation.

Fun times.

OMG

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2653874

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1193177/reddit-moderators-be-like

I get the sense a few more users have joined Lemmy/Piefed from Reddit because of something that happened over there. Welcome to all the Reddit refugees out there.

I'll just put out a quick PSA that in addition to a multitude of mobile applications to use Lemmy and Piefed (see this megathread), there are web applications that change the UI to give you a more familiar experience without needing to install an app. Most exist on a per-site basis so you'll have to see if the instance your account is on installed them (or you can browse as a guest). Check the instance sidebar or ask your local admin.

Here are a few notable examples:

• Alexandrite a.lemmy.world, alex.lemmy.ca etc. Clean, full image previews when scrolling.
• mlmym (Old Desktop Reddit style) old.lemmy.world, old.lemmy.ca etc.
• Photon p.lemmy.world, photon.lemmy.ca, well laid out for mobile use but works well on desktop
• Blorp blorp.lemmy.world, blorp.lemmy.ca etc. more optimized for mobile
• Voyager and tessaract and more.

Each are maintained by 3rd party mostly volunteer developers, so be aware, in case of breaking changes to Lemmy that might affect how well these frontends work.

At this point there's no way to disable this view which features algorithmily selected posts from subreddits your not currently subscribed to. You have to manually switch to "Following" every time you visit the homepage to see normal view of posts from subscribed subreddits.

The post in the comments

Gained around 11 karma in a day, just by commenting under sub reddits without Karma restrictions. Yet, this is what happened. Does this mean it is shadowbanned? It is, correct me if im not wrong!