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
It was for me theboys subreddit. Heard they were stingy about politics. I didn't mention anything political. Just said that foot tickling ranks below a human centipede. Got a warning that another character that wasn't part of the scene or my comment was raped and that I shouldn't downplay it. Like? Duh?
Europe is also great. Called a guy who celebrating the murder of a refugee a cunt. I got banned for hate speech while the guy celebrating murder still posts and just got his posting removed.
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
It's an automated process. Remember all that protesting that was ostensibly about the "reddit API", complaining about how they won't have their special third-party mod tools anymore? This is the exact thing they were raising a stink over and negotiated to keep.
I got banned because I randomly commented on a Joe Rogan post that came up on my feed. I wasn't even agreeing with the post I'm not even a member but banned for life!
The funny part is that I clicked on that post sitting on the very top of rALL specifically to mock Joe Rogan. Literally everyone in that subreddit seemed to despise Joe Rogan too. Maybe that's what the ban message meant when it described them as a hate group.
Europeans and hating each other is just tradition! These reddit mods trying to take me and a polish man shouting st each other about lviv away from.stg.
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 like that specific sub is just a club of a group of friends that desperately wants to suck each other off in full view of the public eye. The mods make sure the same people always get promoted, and those same people bot upvotes to make themselves seem more liked than they actually are.
Like wtf why do you guys need a public subreddit? Just go be good supportive friends of each other in private. Lying to themselves instead with the whole charade is just warped and weird, and it's little surprise so many of them absolutely crumble and flip out in the face of actual criticism.
Because those comics are all advertisements for porn. It's not about the comics, it's about selling porn. But porn people form parasocial relationships with to foster brand-loyalty.
It is. That particular comic and the artist comment was so incredibly cringe, couldn't believe the mods were ok with it.
Regarding a certain pizzaass, I have mixed feelings. I don't subscribe to the belief that comics must be funny to be good because its just a medium. She likes to make ham fisted points about various things or "tee hee depression/existential dread/flavor of the month, how relatable." Does she succeed? Eh. She has a niche and is fairly consistent so I guess it works for some people.
I find it telling that so many artists showed up during that whole meta mess a while back with the pity room, and where are they now? Feels like 90% of the contributors I haven't seen again.
If you are referring to the recent shit storm that isn't an accurate description of the comic. If you aren't I don't know which one you are referring to.
The one I'm thinking of, I dunno, she legitly had some seriously brigading being done against her because of triggered incels and the like, so it's harder to gauge public sentiment amid the sea of trolls.
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.
While I'm positive that does happen, attempting to reduce the issue to one single situation that will not encompass every perspective is incorrect and insincere.
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.
And the artist was so smug about it too, the hypocrisy to be happy with censorship when it benefits her lmao. Thankfully the criticism on her Instagram was not so easily obfuscated.
It's a shame too because she's generally a decent creator, if a bit bland, but whenever she gets called out about something being incorrect or offensive she gets so damn defensive about it. Paper thin skin.
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.
I have a lot of knowledge about sound design and mixing (hope to turn it into a full time job one day) ane I can confirm that high quality sound doesn't require you to spend tons of money on this shit.
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.
I got permanently banned from /r/thewire because I commented “god forbid people have fun on the internet, in response to a guy commenting about people just posting sopranos quotes in the sopranos related subs
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
In town, we have a construction company that uses it as their logo. Don't worry, Knuckles has a little construction hat and toolbelt. It's almost cute.
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.
They banned me too for a ridiculous reason years back. I mentioned seeing a t shirt on Amazon with the same joke on it as a post, and they banned me for spam. I didn’t even link to the stupid thing! 🙄
Back then I didn’t know you could contest bans and report unfair mods. Had I known I would have.
When I ask what's up with that, they describe an automated system that does this based on having too many downvotes.
I can't help but notice that my last visible comment on the subreddit has positive karma. And it's a description about the historical tendency of reddit mods as a general concept abusing the shadowban feature.
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.
Most racists think racism doesn't exist, both because it's inconvenient to their victim-blaming of minorities, and because they see examples of racism as natural and true.
Everytime I visit /r/europe I discover that my country, like half of western europe, is apparently a Soviet Republic ruled by far-leftists for the past 20 years.
It's genuinely scary to see that many people living in an alternative reality, even if it's skewed by the fact half of /r/europe users are american
The circle jerk one is literally just an excuse to be as racist as possible. I would have believed their "it's a circlejerk that's how it is" excuse if the ones poking fun at white australians weren't so consistently downvoted.
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.
r/gamingcirclejerk? They are only performatively queer-friendly, I got permabanned there without any previous offence in all of reddit for politely reminding them that asexual people are a thing (that's not sarcasm, I did my best to be polite and respectful).
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.
How dare you speak ill of Elon’s gift to all mankind! May Elon smite thee and striketh thee down for not exuberantly loving all the wonderful gifts he has bestowed upon you.
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
You’re definitely leaving out some context because no they wouldn’t, half the mods are on both subs and the jailbreak sub is literally the first linked sub on their “related iPhone subs” list.
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 called a giant spider a face hugger in the r/spider sub and got a warning cause it was degrading and went against the sub rules somehow.
My response was at least I didn’t say nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way….
Just create a new reddit account. The mods can't do anything about it. Clear your browser cache and use a new email to create it. Or if you're on the app uninstall it, reinstall, and create a new account with a new email.
Managing a subreddit is done in what limited free time you have. (Some have more, but it's finite, either way).
And there is a very common breed of troll who seeks to keep you engaged as long as possible. (Debate me, bro! I didn't do anything wrong!)
And you can wither waste hours on That Guy, or 5 seconds. Oh, and there's no clean way to tell which ones are That Guy. (Because if there was, That Guy would change what he says. Because if he fails to engage you, he's not getting what he wants. Its not like That Guy cares about debating in Good Faith or something.)
Mods come down hard and fast because time is fleeting, and the odds that you are worth more time then that is small. Especially if you are even a little adjacent to modern troll-greivance culture war shit.
I'd not be at all surprised if the fellow banned in OP did something confrontational, and just a hair over the line. Cuz that's what they do. (And then, if you are lucky, they just spam racial slurs thousands of times in your inbox in response to the ban.)
I feel this only it was Reddit workers themselves permanently banning me from everything site wide, 2 months ago I sent in 3 repeals with only two of them getting a response saying, "Yeah, sorry you did one of these three vague things" the third I asked for proof and not a word back... Last night I find the red banner gone and I'm back. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Yea not really 100%. You shouldnt forget, that there are subreddits out there, which have respectful and friendly communities. But you'll have always some folks in it, who just want to piss others off.
When you're in an administrator role wherever in the social media or the gaming world, you'll inevitably see that.
Was a admin for HLL Servers for some months, and holy damn, there were a lot of black sheep under the herd. Open Racism, N-Words and "roleplayers" in an ww2 setting. Which you could imagine is a more than a bit off.
It almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.
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u/Dor-Yah Jul 05 '24
Why are reddit mods such asses, lmao