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Account Bans on Reddit

7 points theorchid 1 hour ago 9 comments

orionblastar 1 hour ago | parent

Try here: https://goatmatrix.net/ It is an alternative to Reddit.

snarky-comments 1 hour ago | parent

Sad but true, that's my reddit experience too.

The anti AI slant is hilarious since the whole site is mined for AI.

And all the content generates actual revenue and you, the content generator, get abuse for your trouble.

philipwhiuk 51 minutes ago | parent

> The anti AI slant is hilarious since the whole site is mined for AI.

The whole of everything is mined for AI. The decisions of the site owners to profit from the mining aren't necessarily the views of the contributors.

popalchemist 1 hour ago | parent

reddit is no longer what it once was. it is now an ai-content-generation farm. It years ago abandoned its original ethos in favor of ever more fascist tendencies such as this - the unilateral silencing of individuals without cause or recourse is just one of many. There are outright bans on opinion. The overton window is now enforced via LLM.

lynndotpy 58 minutes ago | parent

I've been accused of using AI by Redditors as well. I am unsure of what caused it, but I was banned in December with no warnings, no reason, and with no response at any of my appeals. I still have no idea why I was banned.

gruez 41 minutes ago | parent

One thing I didn't notice OP mentioning is whether he was using a VPN or not. Of course that would make the suspicion level spike in any spam classifier.

ram1500natrluvr 3 minutes ago | parent

I can't share the experience with OP as I have a longstanding reddit account and really only participate in niche subreddits using old reddit. My rule of thumb is to always be skeptical about ban grievance stories that don't provide all the details that a knowledgeable person would ask. What, precisely, was posted? What platform was it posted from? Was there a dancing around of IP addresses and estimated locations with VPNs?

If I were to make a new account, I'm wondering if I would run into the same issues. Surely it can't be that difficult for new users to join reddit?

There's a separate, larger discussion about aspects of the modern internet that people are going to have to get used to, in that "determining whether someone is a real person or not" will be necessary for a lot of services to stay alive. I don't believe the conspiracies that attempts to do this are all for mass surveillance. Mostly, a place for people to talk can only live if people trust that they're talking to other people. Right now, we're seeing some botched or overzealous implementations of this, which might describe what OP ran into.

lofaszvanitt 23 minutes ago | parent

People run these forums, but seemingly they all act like antisocial people. These unwritten rules reminds me of HR's shenanigans. Wear this, talk like that, cv should look like a flying cow, oh and you have to walk backwards to be sure.

The whole reddit experience is just plain ridiculous. It feels exactly like a site that was made by extraterrestrial entities who try to blend in.

New reddit UI/UX is slow and hard to read. old reddit is ok, but you always have a feeling you somehow went back to the 90s. Mind boggling. Site is overengineered and neglected at the same time and most of the moderators are trigger happy and just plain braindead. Perfect example why people should never be given power.

And people less and less want a good discussion, they want to hear their own voices and block you whenever they are losing in an argument. Also, a lot of control freaks roam around who think people are there to cater to their every whim. Others are just running amok, post some ragebait and never commit anything to the "discussion". Essentially enjoy watching as people getting at each others throats.

I have a strange feeling these discussion sites are only there to further alienate people from each other.

paimapi 17 minutes ago | parent

I mean, it's quite literally thankless work and unpaid labor. That wears on you after a while, after the glow of power and responsibility fades.

If you want pro-social, community-oriented mods, you pay them a living wage (like MetaFilter does) and give them more than just circumscribed authority and literally zero tools that the community didn't make themselves. Otherwise, you get what you pay for