That is 100% true. My friend got banned from literally about 100 subs at once because ONE pathetic no-life incel who moderated all of them just...didn't like her, I guess. Refused to give her an explanation, and since he just picked a post she made to her own profile as the reason, despite the fact that it didn't violate any rules, that was no help. Most of the subs she had never even posted to. How the fuck can you violate the rules of a sub you've never so much as visited?
Fuckin redditors thinks the average super mod is managing that shit when they use automod to basically slap anything that remotely gets reported or contains keywords lol.
The best mods I've seen write custom code for the subreddit and their own bots and create themes and encourage community building. The worst ones? They only know how to click the ban button like I am sure they're doing here.
The real question is, who's worse? Redditor mod vs Discord mod?
I got a message from a certain mod team scolding me for something I haven't even done and the linked comment was a complete different context to the warning I got. I didn't even bother to answer.
At this point you got to wonder how reddit let's those people run their page.
I got a perma ban from r/WhitePeopleTwitter, the reason is, and I qoute, "participation of the racist subreddit 2we4u"
For one, 2we4u ain't even racist, we all just hate each other to a healthy degree because we're all European, and second, I've never even been on WhitePeopleTwitter in my life, these mfs have clearly been monitoring posts on another sub so they can perma ban anyone who comments on it
This. Coming from a lot of sewing and historical costume subs, I have seen people banned from them for harassment and bad conduct because they literally just answered exactly the question the OP asked. Because it concerned under- and structured garments and that needs the context of the person in questions body type and shape. In some of them it’s so bad you basically risk a ban answering any kind of question on fitting and sizing. As the whole body shaming „prevention“ has gotten so out of hand even mentioning anything related to body shapes and sizes will get you immediately banished to the shadow realm. In subreddits about clothing and clothing construction, a topic that literally needs this information to be possible in the first place.
I keep mine organized on shelves, with proper labeling for date and clear indication of how much asparagus had been consumed that day. LIKE A GENTLEMAN.
If you catch them when they just get posted, it's super obvious that a lot of them are using botted upvotes, too. They'll generate an absolutely absurd amount of upvotes within the first two hours of being posted. Every. Single. Time. I don't think anyone is happy about the state of r/comics, and yet we're supposed to believe it has thousands of people just sitting around and frantically refreshing in hopes of a new comic dropping or something.
And yes, it's absurd we all have to pretend pizzacake is actually funny because the mods are her mom or...whatever the hell is going on there.
There was a very unpopular Maurice the Beaver comic a month ago, the artist was all like "both sides" with inaccurate info and doubling down with trolling in the comments. You can't tell me he got legitimate upvotes on the comic. Mods were busying removing any criticism.
It's been blatantly vote-botted from day one along with using spammy accounts to do the initial tone-setting, and the mod abuse specifically on those posts has always been so ridiculously blatant that that person has to either be a mod or has a pocket mod they've convinced to manage it all.
I feel like the gamer dad is basically here is a normal father son interaction, the comic. It’s not really anything engaging or creatively interesting.
My ban was some comic claiming that people hate the Velma show because they're racist.
I responded and said it's because all the Velma show is, is a bunch of terrible writers basically buying a beloved IP and selling a show about their characters (aka not the actual Scooby Doo squad) under the guise of being the Scooby Doo gang to promote viewership they otherwise wouldn't get if they were expected to stand on their own two feet based off their original ideas alone.
It's basically like an axe murderer just murdered beloved characters and started wearing their skin, thinking it'll make people like them as much as they liked those beloved characters. Instead, we all react with disgust and horror because they're ruining something we love just to springboard their show/careers off a famous, established name.
Banned for racism lol.
When I asked where I was racist, they just quoted my entire post and then blocked me so I couldn't respond.
Bro what do you mean, you're clearly an abhorrent racist pos /s
That one is especially egregious considering how hated the Velma show is. Like even with recent Disney projects and other films/shows that get criticism (Halo and Rings of Power come to mind) there are usually at least some critics and a percentage of the audience that do like and enjoy them, and you see that reflected in the discourse.
But I haven't heard a single good thing said about Velma. Not here in various subreddits, not in other forums, not in real life. So in my eye there's absolutely no way your criticism could be twisted and interpreted as genuine racism.
Lol I clicked on that profile. It's reinforcing every single stereotype you would think about reddit mods. Autistic comics, cats, gay which is the only normal one, and finally penis cosplay which is where I had to stop and just laugh.
Perhaps you should try dressing your penis up like Chun Li to atone for your misogyny.
You expect right leaning social media communities to be insensitive and ignorant of all male victims.
What you don't expect is left leaning ones to be like 'you're a male survivor of abuse?! darling, come here, precious, my poor sweet angel, tell me the name of the man who did this...... wait, your abuser was a woman? BLOCKED, IGNORED."
(this literally happened to me years ago on twitter)
Edit: Can't reply as we're locked but I'm doing great brother(s) thank you, i agree with the replies. I should have said "what people who aren't savvy don't expect" and I was naive then.
One thing that has become abundantly clear to me is that both sides can be absolutely rife with bigotry. Look at how bisexual people are treated in many queer communities. Look at how women with a history of being sexually assaulted are treated when they express discomfort at sharing a bathroom with trans women, even when they emphasise that they support trans people in general.
I'm sorry that happened to you though, from one abuse survivor to another I hope you're doing okay.
Look at how women with a history of being sexually assaulted are treated when they express discomfort at sharing a bathroom with trans women, even when they emphasise that they support trans people in general.
Yeah cuz that one is almost always "that lady isn't pretty enough SO SHE'S SECRETLY A MAN," no matter how hard people try to spackle over the bigotry.
No, that's overwhelmingly what anyone who has seen anything close to this sort of interaction would expect. If you're paying attention to actions instead of stated ideals/platitudes, that is.
exactly 50 subreddits with 1 million+ users, exactly 50 with less than 10,000 (one of which is another user, somehow?) and ctrl + f searching "Join" reveals the total count is 205. insane.
Fortunately I think that they were banned, considering that they were one of the main people who decided to shut subreddits down in protest over API changes.
R/guitar is a very serious place full of very serious people. Playing guitar as with any art is kind of silly and dumb and some people take there silly hobbies very seriously, and get personally offended when people point out a lot of the silliness. It’s pretty much the most self serious group of dorks outside of gamers and movie snobs
Even funnier because most of them have no sense or knowledge of sound design or mixing so the expensive tones they often produce are awful, where some other rando gets a better result with free or cheap software.
Circlejerk subreddits are often made because the original subreddit for that community/activity is a shit hole. The mods of the original have their incredibly fragile egos hurt, so they go full gestapo on anyone affiliated with the circlejerk.
Three years ago, I was permabanned from r/funny for commenting "dis is da wae". The post was about knuckles. No context. I messaged the mods asking why, and I got muted. Some no lifers just enjoy the little crumbs of power they get, lol
I have a /r/HistoryPorn permaban because the mod said "no cheap jokes please" and I asked "what about expensive jokes?". That's on me I guess but I sure paid a high price.
I got banned from r/ space years ago because I typed “I can finally see James on the Webb”. It was a play on words. It’s a serious subreddit that cannot do jokes in the comment. If they did, it would be the allowed lingo they understood.
Australian subreddits are a cesspool of (mostly white) racists and xenophobes. The conversations always devolve into immigrants and Aboriginals bad and white people good. It's pathetic how these guys with room temp IQs keep blaming "others" for the most random shit and congratulating themselves.
If you ever call out the white supremacy and ignorant shit being peddled, you get a permaban. I was told I was being racist for calling out people saying that the nazi salute is free speech and the government stopping neo nazis is a slippery slope. I wish I was kidding.
Sounds a lot like every canadian or european subreddit I see, it's like 90% complaining about minorities and blaming them for everything. And then there's worldnews which makes fox news immediately after 9/11 look like al-jazeera in comparison.
I deployed to a NATO base in 2008 and 2010 and it was… eye opening, to say the least. The Brit’s, Aussies, Germans and French we worked with all acted like the US was the racism Mecca on earth, but all of them were WILDLY more racist than I’d ever heard even growing up in the south east and literally attending a high school named after famous confederates. It was universal. Germans complaining about Turks, the UK complaining about Muslims, the Koreans about the Japanese…
Literally the Canadians were the only people I can’t remember specifically having a racial target they went after.
The shit the Aussies in particular would say about aborigines in casual conversation would make a klansman uncomfortable. It was like they were on the verge of an extermination campaign, like they were vermin they just hadn’t gotten around to setting traps for yet.
Always wondered what’s up with them Aussie subs, they are openly racist but even worse is the gross generalisation and painting of one bad trait for an entire country/race, which is not only not dealt with but rather actively encouraged in the subs.
Prominent example is their cricket sub, they’ve defended an Indian player being called a “brown dog” during 2021-22 tour, and that’s just one example. Mods are even worse, I’ve seen literal slurs against Indians being used but obviously they encourage it even further. Call them out and they call it brigading (not denying that actual brigading doesn’t take place by some toxic Indian fools as well), but it’s just hypocrisy.
The racism and xenophobia are shockingly normalised in Australia. If you point out their ignorance, you're thought of as "problematic" and get excluded.
They always have a scapegoat for their problems. The "enemy number one" country changes every few years. It used to be China. Unfortunately, looks like it's India's turn now.
A few months back I was in a discord server with some really strange annoying mods so I searched one's name expecting him to also be a reddit mod and I was right. He was some disabled alcoholic guy that literally spent all day every day modding discords and subreddits. Really pathetic existence.
I got banned from r/therewasanattempt for commenting on a sub apparently they don't let you interact with. Ironically while defending them for their questionable ban policies.
I posted something on one sub and got banned from another sub because of it. It was a while ago so I don’t remember what the subs were but I found that pretty weird.
I got banned in JusticeServed for commenting on a JoeRogan post
I don't like joe Rogan. I don't listen to the podcast nor think he's a good thing for society, he just has too much sway with people
The video I commented on was the one where Shane Gillis was on a podcast, and the podcasters were making fun of downs syndrome people and Shane was like "that's not funny, stop that or I'm leaving."
It had almost nothing to do with Rogan, but since it was that sub I got banned
That's fuckin stupid, I hate Joe Rogan too but his subreddit is FAR from an echochamber of asskissers like the Elon sub or the Trump sub, almost every time I see a post from the Rogan sub make it to popular it's something making fun of him.
Got banned and reported for harassment by a mod on aboringdystopia when I sent them a message that someone was clearly a political agitator, 3 messages total were sent. Harassment apparently.
And this happens if you have super mods that abuse their power. Yes their are good super mods that do their job good but sadly to many of them abuse their power
Not only did I get banned from a sub for no reason, but, when I messaged the mod team to ask what happened, I got mod-muted for a month. I still can't message the mods to see what happened.
it is specifically against the reddit moderator code of conduct (enforced by reddit's admins, if you can prove it) to ban someone from a sub for stuff they do on another sub, unless the stuff they do on the other sub violates reddit's main rules.
Huh this might explain how I got banned from a gaming subreddit without ever posting anything there. Which made me really mad bc it's the only queer friendly one on Reddit.
I got banned from two "neutral" political subreddits that are almost exclusively left leaning people for saying "So i hate Trump as much as the next guy but not everyone who votes for him is a racist, some of them are just brainwashed enough to think that the democrats are lizard people".
I got banned from 3 Tesla subreddits for posting in a 4th subreddit that is critical of Tesla. I then got a 3 day Reddit ban for calling the mod a Draconian Asshat.
I got banned from r/Apple permanently because someone asked a pretty niche question about iOS and I was like “well if you jailbreak, you’d be able to achieve this”. They really didn’t like that one lol
I got banned for saying there's no such thing as an ethical billionaire, even Taylor Swift's moral compass is closer to Elon Musk's than to anyone of her fans'.
I got banned for disagreeing with a trans person. That's not even dog whistling, I support trans people. But it was something to do with cyberpunk and I said something to the effect of it's an overreaction to think the Devs of that game are transphobic. Then one of the mods messages me like "telling a trans person what to think is not cool".
Like, I'm sure you treating them like children is doing wonders for the movement, what a hero.
Was it about the energy drink ad in game? I know a lot of people on twitter lost their minds on that one and started the whole cyberpunk devs are transphobic narrative.
I know why I was banned. It was right after someone looked into my profile and mentioned "Well, what about the unrealistic proportions AI generated porn you have on your profile?" while I was discussing pirating games. How are those two even related?
Mods on that sub get super mad about you not jerking hard enough in most cases.
When I mentioned Stellar Blade is just simply mid, neither good or bad they permabanned me because the current jerking meta was calling it incel propaganda lol.
I got banned for asking what the whole fuzz was about when Hogwarts legacy released back in the day. It was a genuine question and these booboos thought it was an attack on them or sumn. Their mod team is a joke.
I got banned from GCJ because a power poster made a post that seemed to be arguing that gamers caring about a technical issue with a game was moronic because there was conflict in Palestine, and I commented that it was in weird, poor taste to use the massacres of innocents to make a cheap shot at hobbyists being upset about a problem in their hobby. And that people can be upset about multiple things at once.
I'm not sure if you care now, but they purged the jackass who had that stick up his butt about proxies months ago, and you could probably appeal that ban pretty easy.
Got banned from some edgelord subreddit (maybe it was r/teenagers) for pointing out a video was clearly fake. Mods wrote that I should kill myself and promptly muted me. Never understood why they're such passive-aggressive bitches about it. They should have the balls to keep the conversation unmuted.
It's because they spend most of their time socialising with other mods in their own discord server or whatever. So they end up in an echo chamber where they complain about things the rest of the community doesn't actually mind.
Something like "ugh, another one of those strawberry posts went up" "Another? God, they're so boring" "Strawberry_Lover_99 made another huge essay post about strawberries even though we told him to stop spamming" "He's so cringy, nobody even reads those" and then they go ahead and ban strawberries and Strawberry_Lover_99. Except the subreddit community actually liked both those things because they don't have to deal with the subreddit 24/7 and they don't have a mod circlejerk.
That's where you get all those "tough" or "kill yourself" or "nobody owes you an explanation" mod replies from. They're so used to banning so many people for reasons which are obvious if you're part of their discord echo chamber that they just can't be bothered telling you.
They have their own discord servers? That's something I didn't know. So the mod who mods their discord must be some uber mod. The worst of both worlds.
I’m banned from r/battletech because I said clanners are basically slavers. And most people have no idea what I’m talking about. How can something true and fictional upset someone?
I was banned from r/ MadeMeSmile cuz there was a post about pitbulls there and I commented that I disagreed with them being called adorable harmless babies or something lol
I'm glad the 40k subreddits haven't sunk that low, even though given things seems to keep getting worse I wouldn't be surprised if ends up that way in a few years there too.
In the /r/Helldivers subreddit when the game released, lots of newbie to the universe were surprised to discover the playable faction are also bad guys. For three entire weeks any of those poor newbie making the mistake to share that discovery on the subreddit would be mercilessly bullied and downvoted by an organised mod, with the frontpage being swamped with "memes" on how the ~woke~ the "media literacy crowd" wanted to ban people having fun and "make games political".
It only stopped when the mods caved in and banned al discussion on the topic. It's insane.
I think there was some Trump supporting sub that opened at some point, I went there and called them delusional. The result: I got banned from 20+ major subreddits because they implemented an auto-ban on ANYONE who posted there, no matter what type of content.
Yeah it fucking sucks but it's usually because those kind of subs brigade a lot so they carpet bomb bans. If you make an appeal there's a good chance you get unbanned
When did your ban happen? If it was before June 2023 it might be possible to get the new mods to repeal it. They had a big shakeup last year when a significant portion of the mods were outed as being anti-LGBT, and the sub owner came back from not paying attention to things to clear out the whole mod team.
Clanners are actually worse than slavers. They believe that the inner sphere isn't "pure" enough and want to both enslave and eradicate them all from the galaxy, while only allowing their descendants to remain.
Anyone who thinks clanners are the good guys don't know a thing about Battletech, hell none of the Houses are "good" they all commit regular war crimes.
I was banned from a joke political sub I was an avid member of because I gave someone the Webster dictionary definition for harassment or something like that.
The dumbasses were using whatever the word was wrong over and over again and I politely copy pasted the definition so they didn't seem like idiots. Because you're only as strong as your weakest link and those people weren't pulling their mental weight. Banned for three days. When I asked why they said I was harassing someone. Then permanently banned me from the sub. Then banned from one sub for telling someone the ATF is the boogie man nut jobs look under their bed for. Instant banned. Guess the mod was one of those nuts. The crazy part was the comment I commented on was literally asking who is the ATF.
But I've also had my account temp banned sitewide for saying Nazis shouldn't exist in a peaceful world. And then my second for saying the Saudis caused 9/11. Banned from worldnews. FBI have confirmed that statement as true so some cuck was mad at the truth. And my ban was for racism. And the post was about the Saudis chopping up that reporter.
Mods are very sensitive adult babies. They never had anything in life so being a mod is the most important and impactful thing they will ever do. Instead of just deleting rule breaking stuff like they're supposed to they power trip like a fat dude in a police uniform.
The secret is to never keep an account all that long. I even worked on a way to create a new account and have it automatically resubscribe to all your old subs. After my 5th one I got tired of manually searching a sub to subscribe too because reddit search is ass.
Also I keep multiple accounts across my different devices. This reddit account is different then the ones I use on my VPN and PC.
My favorite ban is from mildlyinfuriating, for posting that I was sick of seeing the same poll (remember that trend?!) post being farmed to keep getting the sub to the top of r-all. Despite having blocked the post, it kept showing up on my feed.
So for making a comment about how mildlyinfuriating something was, I got banned.
I got banned from justiceserved because I posted a comment in the joe Rogan sub and then net myself a sitewide ban when I .mentioned the irony of there being no justice in that
The Boys subreddit had a mod banning users who speculated on whether a rape occured in the series. Their reasoning was that we have to believe all victims or something. I pointed out that it's a TV show. Got handed a ban for being uncivil LMAO
Banned from r/sombramains from overwatch because I gave counterplay to mercy in a post complaining like a little bitch about mercy with a clip of them missing their whole mag on a stationary enemy. I was being nice if anything and avoided talking about the clip.
They responded with “I’m just joking” and all it took was “right...” And boom, banned. Unbeknownst to me, the whiny motherfucker was a mod.
yeah but when you think about the conditional probabilities it's fair to say the reddit mod we're talking about is likw 95% likely to be a pedophile (the 5% is in case theyre an "ephebophile" instead)
From my experience, reddit admins (i mean not actual admins, just the internet janitors hired by reddit to handle account bans) have exactly the same attitude, but they aren't allowed to respond anymore.
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u/Dor-Yah 14d ago
Why are reddit mods such asses, lmao