I Got permanently banned from a subreddit I liked ,and was a long time member of because I accidentally reposted something that was already posted on there before. I tried to ask the mods about the perma ban but got no response
Reddit figured out that individual bans don’t matter. Who the fuck are you? Nobody. You count for nothing against the monstrous user base. Even if half of them are bots, they still count as users on an Excel sheet somewhere.
They implement Donkey Policy.
Repost policing is so ridiculous. Like yeah, of course we’d rather not have the same thing multiple times a day, but it’s totally ridiculous to expect people to look through the entire sub’s history to make sure you’re good. If you saw it before, just move on. No need to shit on people for trying to contribute.
In particular, it’s just lazy to escalate to a permaban right away. Even if they have a rule against reposts, removing a post along with a warning not to do it again is sufficient to educate the vast majority of people there who may not have seen the rule and only did it for the first time.
But that would take a few extra minutes, I suppose, to check someone’s post history and see if they are a serial rule breaker. Much easier to just wield the ban-hammer then ignore.
Yeah, same here. Well said, I agree with you. It’s more fair to issue a temporary ban to and warn the users that their reposting too early
I don’t use a temp ban unless they’ve already been warned a couple times and it’s obvious they’re just reposting shit that they know they’re reposting, like reposting their own stuff. I’ll only permaban if I know they’re spamming, or they’re overtly hostile to people on a regular basis and get a steady stream of reports against them.
Yeah, tell me about it. Unintentionally Reposting something should not get the user permanently banned, a temporarily ban is more fair.
I got permanently banned for accidentally and unintentionally reposting something that was posted there before. I was a longtime member of that subreddit too! I got unfairly banned for a simple mistake. I tried to talk to the mods but they didn’t respond
Reddit mods are basically in the belief that they’re Mao Zedong. When I created and ran a subreddit /r/treecomics way back in the day, I got accused of being too light on reposts. Like if it was within a couple days I would just remove it. Unless someone was constantly doing it, there’s no harm. Lighten the fuck up people.
So glad I’m permabanned for saying that neonazis in my city should learn how to bite a curb.
I think if moderation is so intense that it has a chilling effect on the community, that’s a big red flag. Sounds like you did it just right.
Yeah, same here. Some mods have let that power go to their heads. They permanently ban people who accidentally repost too early, people that have a different opinion about something and many others who didn’t do anything wrong.
And yet there’s serial reposters who get away with it anyway.
The thing is that on these types of platforms old posts get pushed down. And actually on Reddit until very recently old posts became locked, and unable to be interacted with.
And if something hasn’t been posted for years, it’s almost guaranteed that new people will see the repost and it probably won’t even be seen as a repost.
Exactly. Even if you’ve seen it before it doesn’t mean everyone has.
Uhm I’m pretty sure somebody said the exact same thing the last time this was posted? Do we really need to keep doing this? Everyone turn off your phones and computers. The internet is done.
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It can get really annoying but we need to remember that the upteenth repost of something probably leads to at least one person seeing it the first time.
I also like some (especially meme) reposts because I enjoyed the post once already and I just enjoy to experience it again
I got banned from the pure A Song of Fire and Ice subreddit because I reported a blatantly sexist post, which is against the rules of the sub, without realizing the person I was reporting was the mod. So the jackass Banned Me immediately. Yeah I’m still bitter.
Course I have a couple stories about being banned on Lemmy that are even worse.
Nice story bro. Reddit reports are anonymous, how would the mod know it was you?
I’ve seen plenty of people reply to the comment they reported to say they reported it.
Not that I don’t believe you, but where’s the rest of the ban message?
Let me guess, probably /r/StarTrek or /r/conspiracy. The only two subreddits I’ve ever got banned at and both for strange reasons.
On StarTrek, for pointing out how Star Trek Discovery is bad (without using swearing) and the mods are overreacting by being ban happy on everyone who says so (as I had seen the other subreddit before, where all the banned people complained about the original subreddit), which resulted in me getting banned and into a conversation with a drunk moderato who thought this is funny, how he can abuse his moderator power to permanent ban me. He talked like a 10 years old with aneurysm, when I pointed out his hypocrisy.
On conspiracy, for commenting a conspiracy that was in no way against any rule or TOS. So I guess I was right, too bad I forgot what it was as it was meaningless, tiny. I just remember how hilarious it was suddenly getting banned there by only ever commenting a conspiracy once. On a later thought this was good as I noticed how crap the subreddit was/is.
As someone who watched four seasons of Discovery and is a diehard and lifelong trek fan, I can I can safely confirm your opinion. Discovery is in fact bad. The really disappointing part is that it’s almost good. It’s so close. The production value and visual effects are insanely good. The acting isn’t even bad. But oof, that writing is just atrocious, and the plots never go really where they need to. It just keeps missing the brass ring on every try. What a letdown.
The solution to paying moderators and admins is to simply issue lifetime bans to every account that commits the vaguest faux pas. That’s the nature of the beast at a website that no longer actually wants humans interacting with it.
Which i understand why it happened. There’s just too many user there for each mod to handle so autoban is the quickest for even a minute offence. The dam that hold the water is cracking.
