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Okay, posting this here because it is literally called No Stupid Questions, but I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this.

I got a message today on Reddit saying I was permabanned . . . I had really good karma there, never received any notification that I had done anything wrong, and never had a post deleted. The message said to check my inbox for more details . . . but there were no details in my inbox. I tried to appeal, and it was just denied in a couple of hours. No explanation.

Anyone else experience this or know what other avenues I can take? I'm going to be honest here, I had made a lot of friends there. I suppose I could make a throwaway account to let them know where else they can find me, but I'm pretty bummed out.

For context: I kind of prided myself as being a "Ted Lasso of Reddit." I mostly just got on to give people pep talks in the beginner fitness and /toastme subreddits. I'm going to miss that a lot, and I kind of needed a community right now, even if it was an online one. But, hey, maybe that's just my sign to check out this place instead. I'll try to look at the bright side.

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[–] loam@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Which LLM are you?

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

FYI you likely won't succeed with your alt accounts as they have extensive ways of fingerprinting you outside of basic stuff like your email or IP address.

I was permabanned for "ban evasion" after initially getting banned from /r/movies for talking about piracy and then inadvertently commenting there later on an alt account. I attempted to make a new alt with a VPN active and was banned again almost immediately. This happened to coincide with the great exodus, so I wasn't too sad to just let go of my 10 year old account and settle in here.

[–] YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

They also use device ID. You need a new device that has never interacted with reddit before (with a VPN and different email). They also look at the subs you subscribe to. The amount of info they collect is invasive, fuck 'em.

[–] SonnieTheseDays@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I had created an alt in the past where I had asked some legal questions. That was about it, but maybe that tripped things up. Eh, regardless, it seems this place is more inviting. Also, the combination of words in your name might be one of the most comfortable combination of words ever.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

From my own personal experience:

  1. I can't use my phone. I think they log the device ID (MAC address).

  2. But I've gone through maybe 25-30 accounts on my work computer at work. Same computer. I use Reddit in a Brave private window and I even use a browser script I found to automatically re-add all my subs. It works. I'm not shadowbanned. I post and get responses for X amount of time until some dipshit mod gets me banned from the entire site. Usually a few months.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 8 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Quick let's mainline this person some linux

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[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah I've been in this experience. One of my accounts got Perma banned. I was moderating my subreddit and trying to clarify if a bigot was being bigoted so that I could ban him without remorse. Apparently my clarification sounded bigoted so Reddit banned me with no recourse.

I was never able to talk to a human being, all attempts at trying to restore my account were met with computer no's. Even my whole mod team messaging reddit on my behalf got struck down with automated responses.

I logged in to my second account, got that re-added to the mod team, and continued on. Apparently their bans are as pointless as they are confusing.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago

I just met you and I already love you OP. I’m sorry you got banned from Reddit but I’m glad you’re here.

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I had an account from 2013 with hundreds of thousands of comment and post karma. They banned my account without even telling me why. I filed an appeal and that was a month ago now. Still haven't heard anything back.

I made a new account under a new email with a new Internet connection and a new device. It got banned after 30 minutes. I literally left one positive comment and upvoted a few things.

Reddit and their power tripping admins/mods can suck it.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 4 points 2 days ago (5 children)

I got permabanned for suggesting too many times that we should eat rich people (was joking, obviously.) They also permabanned my wife and her cousin who lived in our basement, I assume because we were on the same wifi? We all appealed and never got any response about it. I don’t really care about my ban, and my wife never posted and neither did her cousin so they didn’t care much, but it’s like bro, that’s not fair that they got banned as well.

[–] DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think it's time to let your wife and cousin out of the basement now.
But hey, sorry to hear about those bans. Yes it affected your basement dwellers due to the same IP. You can get a decent VPN for about $50 per year which hides your IP address.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but now their devices are coded into the ban too. We’ve since moved to a different city, but I haven’t tried making an account on a different device because I just don’t care. I like Lemmy better.

[–] DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Wow I didn't know this. I must've got my new laptop at the same time as VPN then. And yes I'm new here and trying to stop browsing Reddit.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

we should eat rich people (was joking, obviously.

Was u tho?

Hmmm

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh, no, I definitely deserved that ban if we’re looking at it strictly from a terms and services violation standpoint. Also they 3 day banned me several times and warned me. My fault for sure.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Expressing common political sentiment that happens to hurt the parasites feels is a ToS violation?

Hmmm I wonder why

Eitherway, you did nothing wrong and fuck reddit and their bootlicker mods. Pathetic

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 points 2 days ago

Lol dude I know. Designed to keep the peasants down. But that’s okay, they can’t stop me from suggesting we eat the rich on Lemmy, or in person constantly, and they never will.

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[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

My first ever suspension from Reddit was for an anti religion comment. On Reddit. Then after my 3 days were up, the first thread I saw was on the subject of religion, full of people saying worse thing than I had, and in one of the major subs, not even atheism or anything.

I could definitely buy that they're using AI but personally I always had the impression that they outsource the job and don't make sure everyone is even on the same page or can read English properly.

Because even the stuff that gets [removed by Reddit] seems to be nonsense a lot of the time. A while ago I saw someone make a post saying something like "Hi guys, haven't been active much lately. But I'm back and gonna be posting more." Came back later and it was [removed by Reddit]. So not even that is trustworthy or gives the impression that they actually know wtf they're doing.

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What's a ted lasso? Is it different from a rope lasso?

[–] SonnieTheseDays@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Kind of. Imagine a rope lasso, only it's a supportive father figure who makes you feel better about yourself and also maybe sets expectations that border on toxic positivity and oh my god when is my next therapy session?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olPLvuvMcSE

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have never heard of this. I haven't watched TV in years. I watched the clip. I can't express to you how fundamentally repellent I find this man.

[–] SonnieTheseDays@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

No worries. It isn't everyone's cup of chamomile 🙂

That was a fairly long clip though, so still thanks for watching it.

You probably crossed an admin and didn't even realize it. Reddit is really utterly shit behind the curtains, they just happen to put on a good face that has generally fooled politicians and influencers alike. Most people care about what's behind the curtains like they do with politics, not much at all, so they keep getting away with it specially due to the heavy control they have on the narrative. You know societies will begin to give a shit about social networks and what that is doing to our real societies when you actually have a recourse against their Black Mirror Nosedives.

[–] Ze_Rosie_Ro@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I made my Reddit in 2013 and posted alllll sorts of stuff, never really caring what TOS or anything I could be violating.. never had problems except getting a horribly downvoted comment here and there. That being said, I am much happier after transitioning to Lemmy. I use voyager which has a bit of Reddit-like view.

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