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Permabanned, 28 day mute after asking why constructively & to figure out exactly what content, source, or materials needed for the post to be valid to seek answers.​
**I am seeking:**
To be unbanned
**What happened:**
Possibly the moderator had a bit of an overreaction. I asked specifically why he felt what was posted wasn't considered sustainable evidence of Arena suspecting cheating. The post was indirectly asked by the demographic community of /r/guardiantales seeking help and advice of some form of either education, explanation, or some form of help how the tide of the gameplay was questionable. Without getting into technicals, my game account is end game top tier almost where as some are exceedingly higher than mines which is fair. However, in circumstances, a lower tier against a 1% can still be defeated picking up crates in the arena which if the mods have powers that be, can see in the video I had 6 floating on my character = 60% attack boost (10% per crate). which is more than suffice to change the tide of the game against a 1% top tier player.
In short, mod decided to look at the post and commented:
"Are you saying that because it is convenient for you to believe since you can't get over your loss? Or do you actually have definitive proof as well as an understanding of how stats are modified in Arena? I see nothing here other than your inability to accept your loss, to grow up and to move on. Given how little support you have gotten in upvotes and comments in the amount of time that this post has been up for, other people agree with that sentiment as well."
Now I understand criticism are fine and the nature of reddit thereof, however they weren't constructive by more or less disrespectful and I did maintain my politeness with the mod replying "Post was up a few moments before it has gotten locked up so that’s a bit of an understatement.". I replied with this sentence alone because the vote tag became transparent meaning either the post got nulled for anyone to see it or reply to it further before moderator locked the thread.
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Mod message thread:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/GuardianTales/comments/11z8fra/more\_pvp\_cheating\_with\_high\_end\_book\_collection\_6/jdhfmjp/?context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/GuardianTales/comments/11z8fra/more_pvp_cheating_with_high_end_book_collection_6/jdhfmjp/?context=3)
Last few comments in the sub:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/GuardianTales/comments/11z8fra/comment/jdcl2vl/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/GuardianTales/comments/11z8fra/comment/jdcl2vl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
Before the ban occurred, I legitimately asked what is it he sees that I am not that doesn't warrant if the arena was fair or not but instead came off overly verbally aggressive.
Conversation between me and mod:
[https://ibb.co/3S7NGmj](https://ibb.co/3S7NGmj)
[https://ibb.co/4SW1cMg](https://ibb.co/4SW1cMg)
[https://ibb.co/7kLmrZ3](https://ibb.co/7kLmrZ3)(Today 25th March)
Permabanned, 28 day mute after asking why constructively & to figure out exactly what content, source, or materials needed for the post to be valid to seek answers.​
**I am seeking:**
To be unbanned
**What happened:**
Possibly the moderator had a bit of an overreaction. I asked specifically why he felt what was posted wasn't considered sustainable evidence of Arena suspecting cheating. The post was indirectly asked by the demographic community of /r/guardiantales seeking help and advice of some form of either education, explanation, or some form of help how the tide of the gameplay was questionable. Without getting into technicals, my game account is end game top tier almost where as some are exceedingly higher than mines which is fair. However, in circumstances, a lower tier against a 1% can still be defeated picking up crates in the arena which if the mods have powers that be, can see in the video I had 6 floating on my character = 60% attack boost (10% per crate). which is more than suffice to change the tide of the game against a 1% top tier player.
In short, mod decided to look at the post and commented:
"Are you saying that because it is convenient for you to believe since you can't get over your loss? Or do you actually have definitive proof as well as an understanding of how stats are modified in Arena? I see nothing here other than your inability to accept your loss, to grow up and to move on. Given how little support you have gotten in upvotes and comments in the amount of time that this post has been up for, other people agree with that sentiment as well."
Now I understand criticism are fine and the nature of reddit thereof, however they weren't constructive by more or less disrespectful and I did maintain my politeness with the mod replying "Post was up a few moments before it has gotten locked up so that’s a bit of an understatement.". I replied with this sentence alone because the vote tag became transparent meaning either the post got nulled for anyone to see it or reply to it further before moderator locked the thread.
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Mod message thread:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/GuardianTales/comments/11z8fra/more\_pvp\_cheating\_with\_high\_end\_book\_collection\_6/jdhfmjp/?context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/GuardianTales/comments/11z8fra/more_pvp_cheating_with_high_end_book_collection_6/jdhfmjp/?context=3)
Last few comments in the sub:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/GuardianTales/comments/11z8fra/comment/jdcl2vl/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/GuardianTales/comments/11z8fra/comment/jdcl2vl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
Before the ban occurred, I legitimately asked what is it he sees that I am not that doesn't warrant if the arena was fair or not but instead came off overly verbally aggressive.
Conversation between me and mod:
[https://ibb.co/3S7NGmj](https://ibb.co/3S7NGmj)
[https://ibb.co/4SW1cMg](https://ibb.co/4SW1cMg)
[https://ibb.co/7kLmrZ3](https://ibb.co/7kLmrZ3)(Today 25th March)
Permabanned for bringing attention to a Zoophile.On my daily Cringetopia rounds when I found a Zoophile account. I'm not talking a troll account. I mean openly admits to the kind of animals he (redacted) he is derailed on a few occasions as well. I decided to bring this account to the attention of both Cringetopia and Cringepics. Cringetopia hasn't banned me. Cringepics did. My goal was to get everyone to ban this sick individual but apparently the moderator for Cringepics decided to ban ME instead. I understand that it's against their rules but I feel as though there should be an exception for sick deviants. All I asked is to report the user. I did not encourage harassment of any kind. The post is still on my profile so feel free to check it out.
Permabanned for bringing attention to a Zoophile.On my daily Cringetopia rounds when I found a Zoophile account. I'm not talking a troll account. I mean openly admits to the kind of animals he (redacted) he is derailed on a few occasions as well. I decided to bring this account to the attention of both Cringetopia and Cringepics. Cringetopia hasn't banned me. Cringepics did. My goal was to get everyone to ban this sick individual but apparently the moderator for Cringepics decided to ban ME instead. I understand that it's against their rules but I feel as though there should be an exception for sick deviants. All I asked is to report the user. I did not encourage harassment of any kind. The post is still on my profile so feel free to check it out.
Banned after challenging a removed commentSeeking: to be unbanned at a minimum and ideally to have the moderator in question removed for being hostile and insulting. And if they want a general rule about any negative speech at all to state that clearly under their rules instead of using "hate speech" to mean any kind of insult or negative speech and not the generally accepted definition where such speech has to target a group on ethnicity/skin color/gender/sexual orientation/religion etc.
What happened:
I had made a comment essentially stating that the op should ignore what they heard on another sub because the redditors over on that sub have unrealistic and out of touch standards and are "a bunch of fucking clowns". My comment was removed under the rule for hate speech and trolling, so I questioned why my comment was removed, the answer I received was"also rule 4". Rule 4 states that all comments have to be giving advice related to what the sub is about. I noticed most of the comments still present did not follow rule 4. I mentioned that my comment was still relevant to OP's post, the moderator in question then said I was "throwing a tantrum" and threatened to ban me if I responded further.
After briefly checking the moderator's profile I found out they were also a mod for the subreddit I referred to as clowns.
At this point I send a mod mail to complain about this moderator's behavior and that I think they were just flexing their mod powers because I spoke negatively about their other subreddit. In the modmail the same moderator responded, again stating that I was "throwing a tantrum" just because I questioned their reasoning, implied I was being a dick and acted hostile through the whole exchange. I point out how several of the current top comments effectively were breaking their rule 4 and started that I believed the rule was not being enforced evenly and that I believed I was singled out because I said something negative about their other sub. They insist that rule 4 is evenly enforced (again, multiple high up comments breaking this rule, and I believed my comment to still be on topic regardless), they again recited the "no hate speech" rule, I can only figure this refers to me calling this mod's other subreddit "a bunch of fucking clowns" (this wasn't any sort of sub related to race, sexual orientation, gender, or anything like that). I insist that I didn't break the rule about hate speech and implied I thought it was laughable that this moderator considers that hate speech at which point I was given a 7 day ban and mod mail mute so I cannot try to argue my point with a more reasonable member of their moderation team.
Banned after challenging a removed commentSeeking: to be unbanned at a minimum and ideally to have the moderator in question removed for being hostile and insulting. And if they want a general rule about any negative speech at all to state that clearly under their rules instead of using "hate speech" to mean any kind of insult or negative speech and not the generally accepted definition where such speech has to target a group on ethnicity/skin color/gender/sexual orientation/religion etc.
What happened:
I had made a comment essentially stating that the op should ignore what they heard on another sub because the redditors over on that sub have unrealistic and out of touch standards and are "a bunch of fucking clowns". My comment was removed under the rule for hate speech and trolling, so I questioned why my comment was removed, the answer I received was"also rule 4". Rule 4 states that all comments have to be giving advice related to what the sub is about. I noticed most of the comments still present did not follow rule 4. I mentioned that my comment was still relevant to OP's post, the moderator in question then said I was "throwing a tantrum" and threatened to ban me if I responded further.
After briefly checking the moderator's profile I found out they were also a mod for the subreddit I referred to as clowns.
At this point I send a mod mail to complain about this moderator's behavior and that I think they were just flexing their mod powers because I spoke negatively about their other subreddit. In the modmail the same moderator responded, again stating that I was "throwing a tantrum" just because I questioned their reasoning, implied I was being a dick and acted hostile through the whole exchange. I point out how several of the current top comments effectively were breaking their rule 4 and started that I believed the rule was not being enforced evenly and that I believed I was singled out because I said something negative about their other sub. They insist that rule 4 is evenly enforced (again, multiple high up comments breaking this rule, and I believed my comment to still be on topic regardless), they again recited the "no hate speech" rule, I can only figure this refers to me calling this mod's other subreddit "a bunch of fucking clowns" (this wasn't any sort of sub related to race, sexual orientation, gender, or anything like that). I insist that I didn't break the rule about hate speech and implied I thought it was laughable that this moderator considers that hate speech at which point I was given a 7 day ban and mod mail mute so I cannot try to argue my point with a more reasonable member of their moderation team.
Permabanned for “harassment”What I want:
To be unbanned.
What happened:
To be honest I’m not exactly sure what happened. My best guess is the following [exchange](https://i.imgur.com/mF6LftV.jpg). One message. Calling them lame.
I hopped on reddit earlier and was greeted by [this](https://i.imgur.com/4sWxYl1.jpg).
They don’t even tell me where or when i was apparently harassing people, my best guess like I said was the one message where I called moderators “lame.”
Am I out of luck here? Maybe I shouldn’t have been name calling, but I don’t think one message using an extremely mild, grade school insult constitutes harassment. Which is defined as “aggressive pressure or intimidation.” Don’t think my message counted as either.
Permabanned for “harassment”What I want:
To be unbanned.
What happened:
To be honest I’m not exactly sure what happened. My best guess is the following [exchange](https://i.imgur.com/mF6LftV.jpg). One message. Calling them lame.
I hopped on reddit earlier and was greeted by [this](https://i.imgur.com/4sWxYl1.jpg).
They don’t even tell me where or when i was apparently harassing people, my best guess like I said was the one message where I called moderators “lame.”
Am I out of luck here? Maybe I shouldn’t have been name calling, but I don’t think one message using an extremely mild, grade school insult constitutes harassment. Which is defined as “aggressive pressure or intimidation.” Don’t think my message counted as either.
Ouch I see. I was looking for a sub like this sad news
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Permabanned, 28 days mute. Reason? Supposedly I'm transphobic.What am I looking for?
To be heard, discussed and cleared.
What happened?
A week ago, on r/Entertainment, it was published this news: [J.K. Rowling Says “A Ton Of Potter Fans Were Grateful” For Her Controversial Transgender Tweets](https://www.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/11rm68r/jk_rowling_says_a_ton_of_potter_fans_were/)
As usual, a controversial point for controversial news.
What's the issue? I decided to give my opinion, to put my two cents into it.
Here it is (Link here, but the comment now isn't public):
>Prepare to be #Dweight888IsOverParty
>
>Because Rowling hasn't said anything about be against the trans community. She has never said they don't deserve anything, or that it is sin, or some bullshit about it.
>
>The only that she has said was just that.
>
>But, you know what is my issue? Nobody transgender has wanted to say "Uh, you know? This point could be debated, talked with respect (Because, no matter what, Rowling hasn't insulted or used slurs), and... Who knows? Maybe even both views can learn something new".
>
>Now, instead of talking, peace and debate; it's boycotts, #IsOverParty, missing the entire point, verbal and physical attacks... In the moment that something of my message doesn't click with your message, I'm instantly the enemy.
>
>Now the debate is something emotional, not rational. It is no longer about ideas, but about emotions and personal things. An emotion cannot be debated. "This makes me feel bad and it is affecting me" is not a matter of debate, it is how one feels.
>
>They no longer live by convincing the other that perhaps they are not right, that perhaps they are wrong. Now they try to convince them that they are worthless and that only THEIR truth is the only one that is worth it and that it is the truth of a good person.
You read it, and you see that on any moment I haven't disrespect anyone. I say some points that can be seen as controversials (Before, and to clarify: I am not transphobic, I support the idea that trans-women can be seen as women on every aspect, I am happy for each step they win, and I will fight along with them if they start losing rights), but never anything against any band.
I defend trans, I defend their rights, but I also talk about certain points: J.K. Rowling never said that trans doesn't deserve rights, but I recognize she is transphobic (That was because now a lot of people over-exaggerate the original tweets, still available to watch btw); I say that now a lot of people doesn't want to debate and argue points against people who have different PoVs, but instead decide that "Or you are with us, or you are against us".
Controversial? Yes. Valid points of view? Yes. Disrespectful? No.
And before you start comparing this with racism, Nazis, KKK and similar things: Each one of the toxic movements I have mentioned on this paragraph doesn't deserve to waste the time because it comes with only the wish of erase, kill and hate.
But, well, back to what I was talking about. You can dislike what I say. You can HATE whatever I say. I read once that part of grow up is that we interact with people that we don't share any opinion. And Internet is that: A huge ocean of different opinions, never sharing the 100% with any other.
So, what happened? This morning, I opened Reddit to see that I was banned from r/entertainment. Reason? That comment.
So, I appeal, saying that you can like, dislike or hate what I have said, but I didn't break any rule plus I was respectful (I didn't make any threat, I never wish the worst to anyone, this isn't hate speech whatever you like it or not...). I wasn't even looking for drama!
5 hours later, I receive this answer:
> Please do not contact us again. You lied about the vicious bigot and relentless harasser Rowling, because you are a transphobe. This ban is final. You may not appeal
I guess that I have no choice.
I know that after you have read this post, you will say that I am a transphobe too. But, whether you like or not: Was what I said some lie?
Got temp banned for asking why my post got taken downI just got temporary banned on r/funny because I asked a mod why my post was taken down, I wasn’t mad only confused. The first reply was just saying read the rules, so I did from my understanding the post didn’t violate any rules, so I tell the mod just that. Instead of just saying what rule I broke or what I could improve I just got insulted, so I won’t lie I got petty and went rule by rule and explain every single one. Only then do I what rule I broke and hit with a temporary ban like a really crappy gameshow. I should mention I was a mod on discord, honestly just annoyed that I was blamed for them not being responsive
Permabanned, 28 days mute. Reason? Supposedly I'm transphobic.What am I looking for?
To be heard, discussed and cleared.
What happened?
A week ago, on r/Entertainment, it was published this news: [J.K. Rowling Says “A Ton Of Potter Fans Were Grateful” For Her Controversial Transgender Tweets](https://www.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/11rm68r/jk_rowling_says_a_ton_of_potter_fans_were/)
As usual, a controversial point for controversial news.
What's the issue? I decided to give my opinion, to put my two cents into it.
Here it is (Link here, but the comment now isn't public):
>Prepare to be #Dweight888IsOverParty
>
>Because Rowling hasn't said anything about be against the trans community. She has never said they don't deserve anything, or that it is sin, or some bullshit about it.
>
>The only that she has said was just that.
>
>But, you know what is my issue? Nobody transgender has wanted to say "Uh, you know? This point could be debated, talked with respect (Because, no matter what, Rowling hasn't insulted or used slurs), and... Who knows? Maybe even both views can learn something new".
>
>Now, instead of talking, peace and debate; it's boycotts, #IsOverParty, missing the entire point, verbal and physical attacks... In the moment that something of my message doesn't click with your message, I'm instantly the enemy.
>
>Now the debate is something emotional, not rational. It is no longer about ideas, but about emotions and personal things. An emotion cannot be debated. "This makes me feel bad and it is affecting me" is not a matter of debate, it is how one feels.
>
>They no longer live by convincing the other that perhaps they are not right, that perhaps they are wrong. Now they try to convince them that they are worthless and that only THEIR truth is the only one that is worth it and that it is the truth of a good person.
You read it, and you see that on any moment I haven't disrespect anyone. I say some points that can be seen as controversials (Before, and to clarify: I am not transphobic, I support the idea that trans-women can be seen as women on every aspect, I am happy for each step they win, and I will fight along with them if they start losing rights), but never anything against any band.
I defend trans, I defend their rights, but I also talk about certain points: J.K. Rowling never said that trans doesn't deserve rights, but I recognize she is transphobic (That was because now a lot of people over-exaggerate the original tweets, still available to watch btw); I say that now a lot of people doesn't want to debate and argue points against people who have different PoVs, but instead decide that "Or you are with us, or you are against us".
Controversial? Yes. Valid points of view? Yes. Disrespectful? No.
And before you start comparing this with racism, Nazis, KKK and similar things: Each one of the toxic movements I have mentioned on this paragraph doesn't deserve to waste the time because it comes with only the wish of erase, kill and hate.
But, well, back to what I was talking about. You can dislike what I say. You can HATE whatever I say. I read once that part of grow up is that we interact with people that we don't share any opinion. And Internet is that: A huge ocean of different opinions, never sharing the 100% with any other.
So, what happened? This morning, I opened Reddit to see that I was banned from r/entertainment. Reason? That comment.
So, I appeal, saying that you can like, dislike or hate what I have said, but I didn't break any rule plus I was respectful (I didn't make any threat, I never wish the worst to anyone, this isn't hate speech whatever you like it or not...). I wasn't even looking for drama!
5 hours later, I receive this answer:
> Please do not contact us again. You lied about the vicious bigot and relentless harasser Rowling, because you are a transphobe. This ban is final. You may not appeal
I guess that I have no choice.
I know that after you have read this post, you will say that I am a transphobe too. But, whether you like or not: Was what I said some lie?
Permabanned, 28 days mute. Reason? Supposedly I'm transphobic.What am I looking for?
To be heard, discussed and cleared.
What happened?
A week ago, on r/Entertainment, it was published this news: [J.K. Rowling Says “A Ton Of Potter Fans Were Grateful” For Her Controversial Transgender Tweets](https://www.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/11rm68r/jk_rowling_says_a_ton_of_potter_fans_were/)
As usual, a controversial point for controversial news.
What's the issue? I decided to give my opinion, to put my two cents into it.
Here it is (Link here, but the comment now isn't public):
>Prepare to be #Dweight888IsOverParty
>
>Because Rowling hasn't said anything about be against the trans community. She has never said they don't deserve anything, or that it is sin, or some bullshit about it.
>
>The only that she has said was just that.
>
>But, you know what is my issue? Nobody transgender has wanted to say "Uh, you know? This point could be debated, talked with respect (Because, no matter what, Rowling hasn't insulted or used slurs), and... Who knows? Maybe even both views can learn something new".
>
>Now, instead of talking, peace and debate; it's boycotts, #IsOverParty, missing the entire point, verbal and physical attacks... In the moment that something of my message doesn't click with your message, I'm instantly the enemy.
>
>Now the debate is something emotional, not rational. It is no longer about ideas, but about emotions and personal things. An emotion cannot be debated. "This makes me feel bad and it is affecting me" is not a matter of debate, it is how one feels.
>
>They no longer live by convincing the other that perhaps they are not right, that perhaps they are wrong. Now they try to convince them that they are worthless and that only THEIR truth is the only one that is worth it and that it is the truth of a good person.
You read it, and you see that on any moment I haven't disrespect anyone. I say some points that can be seen as controversials (Before, and to clarify: I am not transphobic, I support the idea that trans-women can be seen as women on every aspect, I am happy for each step they win, and I will fight along with them if they start losing rights), but never anything against any band.
I defend trans, I defend their rights, but I also talk about certain points: J.K. Rowling never said that trans doesn't deserve rights, but I recognize she is transphobic (That was because now a lot of people over-exaggerate the original tweets, still available to watch btw); I say that now a lot of people doesn't want to debate and argue points against people who have different PoVs, but instead decide that "Or you are with us, or you are against us".
Controversial? Yes. Valid points of view? Yes. Disrespectful? No.
And before you start comparing this with racism, Nazis, KKK and similar things: Each one of the toxic movements I have mentioned on this paragraph doesn't deserve to waste the time because it comes with only the wish of erase, kill and hate.
But, well, back to what I was talking about. You can dislike what I say. You can HATE whatever I say. I read once that part of grow up is that we interact with people that we don't share any opinion. And Internet is that: A huge ocean of different opinions, never sharing the 100% with any other.
So, what happened? This morning, I opened Reddit to see that I was banned from r/entertainment. Reason? That comment.
So, I appeal, saying that you can like, dislike or hate what I have said, but I didn't break any rule plus I was respectful (I didn't make any threat, I never wish the worst to anyone, this isn't hate speech whatever you like it or not...). I wasn't even looking for drama!
5 hours later, I receive this answer:
> Please do not contact us again. You lied about the vicious bigot and relentless harasser Rowling, because you are a transphobe. This ban is final. You may not appeal
I guess that I have no choice.
I know that after you have read this post, you will say that I am a transphobe too. But, whether you like or not: Was what I said some lie?
Got temp banned for asking why my post got taken downI just got temporary banned on r/funny because I asked a mod why my post was taken down, I wasn’t mad only confused. The first reply was just saying read the rules, so I did from my understanding the post didn’t violate any rules, so I tell the mod just that. Instead of just saying what rule I broke or what I could improve I just got insulted, so I won’t lie I got petty and went rule by rule and explain every single one. Only then do I what rule I broke and hit with a temporary ban like a really crappy gameshow. I should mention I was a mod on discord, honestly just annoyed that I was blamed for them not being responsive
Got temp banned for asking why my post got taken downI just got temporary banned on r/funny because I asked a mod why my post was taken down, I wasn’t mad only confused. The first reply was just saying read the rules, so I did from my understanding the post didn’t violate any rules, so I tell the mod just that. Instead of just saying what rule I broke or what I could improve I just got insulted, so I won’t lie I got petty and went rule by rule and explain every single one. Only then do I what rule I broke and hit with a temporary ban like a really crappy gameshow. I should mention I was a mod on discord, honestly just annoyed that I was blamed for them not being responsive
Ban appeal in /borrowHello, I’m messaging to appeal a ban I did not know I had in Reddit/borrow, I didn’t realise my first and only post there from what must have been a good year or two ago had been deleted and I’m in a really desperate situation, is there anything that can be done?
Threatened account deletion and further bans for asking a question I got banned for supposed self promotion but I didn't think I violated that rule, I asked about it because the language of the ban changed from day to day, it initially said 3 days and then said temporarily, and where he was reading those rules and got banned further for asking about it, he then blacklisted all videos I make from here on out.
One of the videos I made was the one he was talking about here, my channel is full of DaD content and I'm trying to just make content for that game. I didn't really care about that video taken down but didn't understand why they all were, further I don't just post here, I'm fairly active in UFO's and had a post in Portland recently. I just didn't understand, and he went above and beyond to kinda ruin my situation just because. The supposed misinformation video was there's a class coming to the game eventually and I made a video on what that might look like going over the history of the class in old school rpgs. Before I started the series I asked the devs if it was OK and they said they'd love to see that kind of thing so I started the series. My one video that I can kinda understand was on another game and I compare it to DaD, it getting taken down is fine I won't post it again but a ban is a bit extreme, furthermore the whole 1-9 situation wouldn't have happened if it was clearly explained why one of them was deleted in the first place, misinformation didn't make sense, when I messaged the mods on discord they said it was likely because I didn't add a speculation tag to it, so I did and reposted it and then put in the next video I'd finished editing and got the ban.
He eventually pointed to the ToS for 1 of every 9 posts being something self created, I don't really post very often, never have in the 11 years of having a reddit account, I lurk and don't really participate he threatened deleting my reddit account if I asked any further questions, unless I feel I have something to add. When I make content I share it, and go elsewhere or go work on content. I think this is really an extreme reaction and response considering others in that subreddit are doing it, it feels targeted not really relevant at all. When I asked why I got further banned for asking a question about it he said I needed to look in the mirror about being a spammer, like what?
Threatened account deletion and further bans for asking a question I got banned for supposed self promotion but I didn't think I violated that rule, I asked about it because the language of the ban changed from day to day, it initially said 3 days and then said temporarily, and where he was reading those rules and got banned further for asking about it, he then blacklisted all videos I make from here on out.
One of the videos I made was the one he was talking about here, my channel is full of DaD content and I'm trying to just make content for that game. I didn't really care about that video taken down but didn't understand why they all were, further I don't just post here, I'm fairly active in UFO's and had a post in Portland recently. I just didn't understand, and he went above and beyond to kinda ruin my situation just because. The supposed misinformation video was there's a class coming to the game eventually and I made a video on what that might look like going over the history of the class in old school rpgs. Before I started the series I asked the devs if it was OK and they said they'd love to see that kind of thing so I started the series. My one video that I can kinda understand was on another game and I compare it to DaD, it getting taken down is fine I won't post it again but a ban is a bit extreme, furthermore the whole 1-9 situation wouldn't have happened if it was clearly explained why one of them was deleted in the first place, misinformation didn't make sense, when I messaged the mods on discord they said it was likely because I didn't add a speculation tag to it, so I did and reposted it and then put in the next video I'd finished editing and got the ban.
He eventually pointed to the ToS for 1 of every 9 posts being something self created, I don't really post very often, never have in the 11 years of having a reddit account, I lurk and don't really participate he threatened deleting my reddit account if I asked any further questions, unless I feel I have something to add. When I make content I share it, and go elsewhere or go work on content. I think this is really an extreme reaction and response considering others in that subreddit are doing it, it feels targeted not really relevant at all. When I asked why I got further banned for asking a question about it he said I needed to look in the mirror about being a spammer, like what?
Threatened account deletion and further bans for asking a question I got banned for supposed self promotion but I didn't think I violated that rule, I asked about it because the language of the ban changed from day to day, it initially said 3 days and then said temporarily, and where he was reading those rules and got banned further for asking about it, he then blacklisted all videos I make from here on out.
One of the videos I made was the one he was talking about here, my channel is full of DaD content and I'm trying to just make content for that game. I didn't really care about that video taken down but didn't understand why they all were, further I don't just post here, I'm fairly active in UFO's and had a post in Portland recently. I just didn't understand, and he went above and beyond to kinda ruin my situation just because. The supposed misinformation video was there's a class coming to the game eventually and I made a video on what that might look like going over the history of the class in old school rpgs. Before I started the series I asked the devs if it was OK and they said they'd love to see that kind of thing so I started the series. My one video that I can kinda understand was on another game and I compare it to DaD, it getting taken down is fine I won't post it again but a ban is a bit extreme, furthermore the whole 1-9 situation wouldn't have happened if it was clearly explained why one of them was deleted in the first place, misinformation didn't make sense, when I messaged the mods on discord they said it was likely because I didn't add a speculation tag to it, so I did and reposted it and then put in the next video I'd finished editing and got the ban.
He eventually pointed to the ToS for 1 of every 9 posts being something self created, I don't really post very often, never have in the 11 years of having a reddit account, I lurk and don't really participate he threatened deleting my reddit account if I asked any further questions, unless I feel I have something to add. When I make content I share it, and go elsewhere or go work on content. I think this is really an extreme reaction and response considering others in that subreddit are doing it, it feels targeted not really relevant at all. When I asked why I got further banned for asking a question about it he said I needed to look in the mirror about being a spammer, like what?
Ban appeal in /borrowHello, I’m messaging to appeal a ban I did not know I had in Reddit/borrow, I didn’t realise my first and only post there from what must have been a good year or two ago had been deleted and I’m in a really desperate situation, is there anything that can be done?
Ban appeal in /borrowHello, I’m messaging to appeal a ban I did not know I had in Reddit/borrow, I didn’t realise my first and only post there from what must have been a good year or two ago had been deleted and I’m in a really desperate situation, is there anything that can be done?
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Got a Reddit Post deleted from r/The Simpsons even though I don't even know what I did wrong.I got a reddit post deleted from r/TheSimpsons for no known reason, and I don't know why It was deleted. I don't think I broke any rules. Here's a screenshot archived of that post. [https://preview.redd.it/jgppvoxwlloa1.png?width=686&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=55024f6daec437971ba4f6b47c0455cdbcd7fec2](https://preview.redd.it/jgppvoxwlloa1.png?width=686&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=55024f6daec437971ba4f6b47c0455cdbcd7fec2). I don't know what Rule i broke other than talking about its fanbase. I mean seriously.
Got a Reddit Post deleted from r/The Simpsons even though I don't even know what I did wrong.I got a reddit post deleted from r/TheSimpsons for no known reason, and I don't know why It was deleted. I don't think I broke any rules. Here's a screenshot archived of that post. [https://preview.redd.it/jgppvoxwlloa1.png?width=686&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=55024f6daec437971ba4f6b47c0455cdbcd7fec2](https://preview.redd.it/jgppvoxwlloa1.png?width=686&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=55024f6daec437971ba4f6b47c0455cdbcd7fec2). I don't know what Rule i broke other than talking about its fanbase. I mean seriously.
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Unfairly permabanned from r/videos and muted after appealing Hello everyone,
I was recently permanently banned from r/videos and I'm struggling to understand why. I posted a video about GPT-4 titled "A brief overview of GPT-4 (If reading papers is not your thing)" after thoroughly reading the subreddit's rules, and even checking if the content was unique and contributed to the community.
Upon receiving the ban, I contacted the moderators for clarification, and their response was simply "Rule P" and "stop spamming". I was confused as I didn't know what "Rule P" was and I couldn't find it in the rules. I asked for more information, explaining that my account has been active for 6 years and is not a spam account, but received no further clarification.
I decided to submit an appeal, providing my username, the reason I was banned, and explaining why I believe I should be unbanned. In my appeal, I mentioned my confusion about the ban and my enthusiasm for sharing the GPT-4 video. I assured them that my intentions were genuine and that my account had been built over 6 years without any history of spamming.
Unfortunately, in response to my appeal, I was temporarily muted from r/videos for 28 days without any explanation or information about the ban. I've always been polite and respectful in my interactions with the moderators, and I'm at a loss as to what to do next.
Has anyone else experienced something similar, or can offer advice on how to proceed? Is there a way to file a complaint or report a subreddit to talk to a human and resolve this issue?
Thank you in advance for your help and advice.
Unfairly permabanned from r/videos and muted after appealing Hello everyone,
I was recently permanently banned from r/videos and I'm struggling to understand why. I posted a video about GPT-4 titled "A brief overview of GPT-4 (If reading papers is not your thing)" after thoroughly reading the subreddit's rules, and even checking if the content was unique and contributed to the community.
Upon receiving the ban, I contacted the moderators for clarification, and their response was simply "Rule P" and "stop spamming". I was confused as I didn't know what "Rule P" was and I couldn't find it in the rules. I asked for more information, explaining that my account has been active for 6 years and is not a spam account, but received no further clarification.
I decided to submit an appeal, providing my username, the reason I was banned, and explaining why I believe I should be unbanned. In my appeal, I mentioned my confusion about the ban and my enthusiasm for sharing the GPT-4 video. I assured them that my intentions were genuine and that my account had been built over 6 years without any history of spamming.
Unfortunately, in response to my appeal, I was temporarily muted from r/videos for 28 days without any explanation or information about the ban. I've always been polite and respectful in my interactions with the moderators, and I'm at a loss as to what to do next.
Has anyone else experienced something similar, or can offer advice on how to proceed? Is there a way to file a complaint or report a subreddit to talk to a human and resolve this issue?
Thank you in advance for your help and advice.
Unfairly permabanned from r/videos and muted after appealing Hello everyone,
I was recently permanently banned from r/videos and I'm struggling to understand why. I posted a video about GPT-4 titled "A brief overview of GPT-4 (If reading papers is not your thing)" after thoroughly reading the subreddit's rules, and even checking if the content was unique and contributed to the community.
Upon receiving the ban, I contacted the moderators for clarification, and their response was simply "Rule P" and "stop spamming". I was confused as I didn't know what "Rule P" was and I couldn't find it in the rules. I asked for more information, explaining that my account has been active for 6 years and is not a spam account, but received no further clarification.
I decided to submit an appeal, providing my username, the reason I was banned, and explaining why I believe I should be unbanned. In my appeal, I mentioned my confusion about the ban and my enthusiasm for sharing the GPT-4 video. I assured them that my intentions were genuine and that my account had been built over 6 years without any history of spamming.
Unfortunately, in response to my appeal, I was temporarily muted from r/videos for 28 days without any explanation or information about the ban. I've always been polite and respectful in my interactions with the moderators, and I'm at a loss as to what to do next.
Has anyone else experienced something similar, or can offer advice on how to proceed? Is there a way to file a complaint or report a subreddit to talk to a human and resolve this issue?
Thank you in advance for your help and advice.
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Ouch I see. I was looking for a sub like this sad news
I'm sure you've explored every avenue, but just in case you didn't know about it, u/ModSupportbot ([details here](https://www.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/wiki/modsupportbot/) and [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/w4jqkx/hello_world_introducing_me_your_new_resource_for/)) can provide suggested community members that might make good mods. Suggestions would still need vetting and there's no guarantee they'd say yes, but it might be worth a go if you haven't tried it and have the bandwidth sometime.
With respect, you were up-front that you had no ability to influence other mod teams - that has not been a matter of any confusion, at any point in this process.
To the community, and yourself: thank you for your time. Overall, this process has been educational.
My feedback regarding the experience of posting and commenting here is not intended as a parting barb, or anything of the sort. It’s just one person’s experience, regarding good advice (among other things) delivered with kindness or without kindness. If anyone is open to it, my recommendation is to remember the human. I am by no means perfect in that regard myself, but I am working to get better.
Regarding whether I’d recommend others engaging here, it’s a “the juice ain’t worth the squeeze”, if that makes sense. You’re welcome to disagree.
Edit: a downvote with no response from the lead mod. Disappointing but not surprising.
I'm seeing this type of moderator behavior become more and more common. It seems that many mods are resorting to simply muting anybody who inquires what exactly they did wrong. I believe the reason for this is that somebody gave moderator status to their buddy who has no level of competency and when asked questions, cannot justify their actions, so they resort to an evasive method.
I did see someone comment about how they may have thought he was a sock account but digging into this, there is no indicator of that.
EDIT: There was no reason for whoever downvoted this to do so, it's not wrong.
Unfortunately, any moderator that insists that you see things their way, admit you were wrong, and promise never to do it again are almost always bad faith mods to begin with. It's never good to feed the ego of a power-tripping mod just for the sake of being able to post.
I remember once before where I had a situation exactly like the OP. I got some random message saying I was banned from a sub. Confused, I mailed the mods asking why and got a 2 word response that didn't answer my question. When I asked for clarification, I was muted.
I too do not see how the OP can accept any blame and to rationalize some form to appease the mods is never wise as it feeds into the illusion that the aforementioned was, in fact, right.
In situations like this, I always advise to seek further clarification and ask for unambiguous clarification without giving off an adversarial attitude, which some are eager to do. If they respond to you with muting, the sub clearly has a moderator problem and you're better off posting elsewhere.
Never forget, incompetent moderators are extremely common and just because somebody has the status, does not mean they are intelligent, competent, or right. People snag up subs and give the status to their buddies with no regard to how they compose themselves.
I absolutely empathize with you, I really do. I too have been in subs where I enjoyed the content but those in charge were simply not the right people to be so, which caused me to move on. I didn't "want" to but it was the right thing to do. Luckily, there are usually always other subs with the same content!
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I’m very sorry this happened to you. This is the unfortunate effect of people who are not capable of properly handling power being given power.
Banning should always be the last resort, never the first unless the person was clearly trying to create a big problem. When you deal with mods who have no intention of admitting they may have made a mistake or are determined to die on their hill, it’s generally not worth your time.
Thank you for your kind words (not a common thing in these parts).
I do think that the advice I have received in this sub has been off the mark. It boils down to: “no matter how little you ask of a moderator, even if it is basic competence or courtesy, it is too much and you are unreasonable for doing so.” And “moderators should be flattered and validated, even when they make a mistake, or are operating on incomplete facts - or no facts at all.” I can’t tell if that’s just how the users of this sub would prefer to be treated (and who wouldn’t!).
Even the lead mod of this sub decided to wade in and inform me that I’m too stupid to understand their sub, after removing a comment from another user (under the rule of “being unhelpful/don’t judge” - although judging me seems to be perfectly fine) criticizing the advice given in this sub. They’ll likely remove your comments too, but I think you’re absolutely correct that this subs community does not seem to be living up to the intent of the sub.
I get that moderating is a volunteer gig; it’s unpaid and chances are, many interactions involved are unpleasant. However, that seems to be considered by many to be a valid excuse for doing that gig poorly - for banning the wrong people, for making mistakes and not owning up to them or attempting to fix them, for inventing new rules on the fly, etc.
All I ever wanted from the mods of r/worldnews was for someone to honestly engage with me, because if they had (even for a moment) they’d see that I’m not an antivaxxer, and banning me “for being an antivaxxer” makes no goddamn sense. I didn’t do the thing they think I did. I honestly believe that this ban was issued by mistake - wrong username, an old comment taken out of context, etc. And hey, mistakes happen! It should be no big deal to say “whoops, sorry, it happens, let me fix that for ya.” Many subs have done that for me before, and I bear them no ill will.
I’m not sure what’s wrong with the platform, or the tools available, or the community itself that leads moderators to behave in this way. Without knowing that (or even what I did wrong!), I can’t say whether it will change - so all I can do is seek greener pastures, where the moderators are willing and able to moderate. Or, at least, as far as I can tell.
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Lol honestly the irony of a libertarian subreddit banning people for speech cracks me up.
Banned for "agendaposting," even though I wasn't**I am seeking:**
To be unbanned
**What happened:**
I’ve been subbed to r/entertainment for years and posted there frequently.
I recently posted a link to a story about furries harassing cast members at a Disney park:
https://old.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/11mcbvm/furries_sexually_harass_characters_get_kicked/
I got a message that the post was moved because it was "off-topic." I thought that was weird because there have been stories about Disney parks in the past on the same sub, so I responded and even linked some examples.
I got no response, but got a message saying that I had been permabanned for "agendaposting" and another saying I had been muted:
https://imgur.com/a/KFeu0L1
Permanently banned with no initial explanation, immediately muted after finally getting one.**I am seeking:** To be unbanned from the subreddit, to have a conversation with the mod team if possible to better understand why I was banned as I believe my comment may have been misinterpreted and a conversation would probably clear things up, or at the very least just be heard.
**What happened:** I was banned from r/TheRightCantMeme with no initial explanation after commenting on post. When I replied to the ban message, I got no reply. I messaged the mod team separately asking why I was banned and they said "racism, misinformation, and general liberal nonsense". My comment could ***maybe*** be construed as "general liberal nonsense", but was in NO WAY racist or misinformation. After this reason was given to me, they immediately muted me for 28 days. To add insult to injury, they also finally responded to my initial question on the ban message simply saying "hi" knowing full well that I wouldn't be able to respond.
Screenshots of the post, my comment, and mod convo. I'm new to using Imgur so please let me know if you're unable to see the screenshots: [https://imgur.com/a/yUvKYRD](https://imgur.com/a/yUvKYRD)
Permabanned without reason, after pointing out a breach of Reddit TOSI am seeking: To be unbanned from r/news. I also would like to understand why I got banned without explanation.
What happened: I saw [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/) and was shocked by the amount of [comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbma7yg/) [calling](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbm82y7/) [for](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbm58a0/) [harm](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbly362/) [and](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbm71eh/) [death](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbljgom/). I [commented](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbkt1lg/?context=3) that the amount of comments blatantly breaking Reddit TOS (advocating death or harm) was mind-boggling and that I disapproved.
None of my comments were removed - I was simply permabanned. To my knowledge, none of my comments were snarky or demeaning, or violated any other rules of the subreddit - unlike most of the top comments, which make fun of someone being hospitalized. I only asked that people stop wishing death on another person.
Thanks in advance.
Is this idea of mediation with moderators going anywhere? Is reddit willing to do this?The problems of moderation on Reddit belong to Reddit. It is not the "fault" of this sub. But I would like more answer than just saying "Your post has been locked."
Where are we going? Because what I observe now is that Reddit has become quasi-government who enables moderators to 1) ignore facts 2) ignore good behavior 3) take away freedom of speech for no reason.
Reddit itself does not appear to be mediating. I have no indication that they have told the moderator they are wrong. The post the moderator complains I "deleted" is still there.
It is just no in the input queue. So if they asked me for evidence I can supply that. I even have saved a link to the post that the moderator complains I "deleted" to try to destroy evidence.
So if all this sub amounts to something about mediation or even a place to post "hey reddit isn't mediating" I'm glad it exists.
But I would still like to know that there is a "there there" here. And/or that reddit can see the moderator has made a mistake. And/or how to cope with a moderator who ignores the facts and uses ignoring the facts to see behavior in the worst possible light.
That's three possibilities. Or is it just not worth my time hoping for moderators who are informed and things to get fixed..
Thanks. If anyone actually reads this before "locking my post" please feel free to speak up.
-- Rich
Perma bannedI was perma banned and muted by r/EverythingScience for being “antivaxx” somehow, even though I’m vaccinated and have my booster
The thread was about the measles outbreak, I posted a reply that society isn’t to blame for conservatives not being vaccinated, then another “user” decided to say we should force ppl to get vaccinated and I said I didn’t agree that we should force ppl to do things
I would like to have my ban lifted because I’m being banned for a false/made up reason
If I was being banned for being an asshole that’s fine BUT I don’t like being banned for blatant BS
Thank you for your time
I am seeking: to be unbanned from a subreddit and a courteous explanation to why I was banned in the first place.What happened: I genuinely do not know. I commented asking a question from something on r/all because I didn't understand the implications of what was said. Was instantly banned and when I inquired about the ban they provided no answer and then muted me.
Banned from WPT with no reason given**What i’m seeking:** to be unbanned from WPT, remain blocked by /u/Merari01 and have no further interaction with them.
What happened: I was banned for the comment at the bottom of this [imgur album.](https://imgur.com/gallery/WR6ZYa5)
screenshots 1-6 provide the discussion between myself and Merari01, the final two images show the commentary that resulted in this ban.
no reason for the ban was given, no discussion was acknowledge and all points made to the modmail correspondance were completely omitted and replied to with things completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.
[this moderator specifically has a history of repeatedly abusing their power.](https://www.reddit.com/r/N8theGr8/comments/x0piec/this_is_un8thegr8_im_back_to_explain_why_i/)
[why is this person allowed to moderate allegedly 200+ subreddits with behavior and abuse of power such as this?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ReportTheBadModerator/comments/apo3fr/umerari01_of_rinsanepeoplefacebook_rlifeprotips/)
Post removed using incorrect ruleNot sure why, the first post removal I let slide but now the mod is trying to make up a reason after using a rule that doesn’t apply - what do you think?
banned from sub i never heard ofjust got a msg that i have been banned from a sub called justice served? i never heard of them. i went back in my comments a few months and didnt see anything for them. i dont remember joining this sub, i never even heard of them until i got the ban msg.
can you be banned from subs your not joined? how does that even work?
The form for reporting a problem requires that I identify a moderator by nameThis sub does not appear to ever reveal that information to my knowledge.
If I don't put in a name the form won't go through.
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I really really need help with this. The moderator has thus far worked to completely misunderstand what my behavior was and my motives.
I feel this needs to be cleared out. Otherwise when I come back to the sub the moderator will seek to find yet another reason to ban me. I feel that the moderator must be talked down from this position in some way by someone. Thus far the admins have not been helpful at all.
Permaban - can we use alts?>You’ve been permanently banned by the Reddit admin team for violating Reddit’s rule against promoting hate in the following content.
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>Link to reported content: [https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11aovp9/comment/j9tcjrk](https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11aovp9/comment/j9tcjrk)
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>Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. We don’t tolerate promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability, and any communities or people that encourage or incite violence or hate towards marginalized or vulnerable groups will be banned.
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>*If you use Reddit with a different account* ***and continue to promote hate***\*, you will be in violation of Reddit’s rule against ban evasion, and any additional accounts you have will be banned.\*
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>If you believe this ban was a mistake, make sure you read and understand Reddit’s [User Agreement](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement) and the rules outlined in the [Content Policy](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy). If after reviewing the policy and agreement, you still believe something went wrong, you can [submit an appeal](https://www.reddit.com/appeals).
**Does this mean I can use alt accounts so long as I don't get an infraction for promoting hate?**
I am trying to get my main account un-banned but the first human review failed.
I was replying in this thread: [https://www.unddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11aovp9/why\_nigerians\_arent\_turning\_to\_the\_enaira\_despite/](https://www.unddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11aovp9/why_nigerians_arent_turning_to_the_enaira_despite/)
You can see the context - I was clearly talking about **COUNTRIES.** I replied to "Nigerians do not use the CFA.." I basically said sorry my bad it was its neighbor ( mentioned it by name ) and got banned. I was careful to spell it correctly without the double gg.
I put in a second appeal, but I am not really hopeful. I just want to use reddit in peace.
I even asked the site admins if:
>If my main account is permanently suspended for "spreading hate" am i allowed to use the alt account on Reddit so long as I don't break that rule?
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>Or is it considered ban evasion?
there reply:
>Hi, thanks for the report.
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>Unfortunately, to take action on ban evasion, we require a mod of the subreddit that the user has been banned from to report the user. Ultimately, it's up to the mods on how they want to enforce their subreddit bans - and we've seen cases where they know that someone is on an alt and choose not to enforce the ban.
It didn't directly answer my question but I get what I am trying to say
Am I breaking the rules of reddit by using Alts while my main account is banned?
Should I wait until its unbanned, I feel like this might never happen given my current interaction with reddit Admins.
11 year-old account "flagged for ban evasion". Can someone explain what happened here?Hi Alll,
I'm hoping someone here could give me an ELI5 summary of what happened here. I've been on Reddit for a long time, but I've never been banned before and I don't understand how any of this works.
It started last weekend when I received a message that my comment in r/AmITheAsshole has been flagged for ban evasion. My first thought was that the warning came because I edited my comment in a locked thread (I didn't know it was locked when I edited it) because I got the message immediately after doing so. Or, that my comment had some unfortunate keywords in it that triggered a Reddit bot. Is this a possiblity? There was nothing offensive about the comment itself but I've since deleted it anyway, just to be safe.
Though it seemed my account was not effected in any way, the message said I could reply if I had any questions. This is the [resulting conversation](https://i.imgur.com/YWnbIk2.jpg).
After that last message from the mod, a red bar appeared at the top of my page saying I was suspended for three days, so I didn't (couldn't) continue the exchange.
My suspension came immediately after the mod found out I used a shared computer, but I don't think that could be an issue. I'm always careful to log out of my account and I never click the "remember me" button when I log in. Besides, the initial flag came from a comment I posted on my home computer that no one else uses. Could there be any issue here?
The orginal bot message said "ban evasion", so I researched to see what that might be about. My account is nearly 11 years old, so it obviously wasn't created to evade a ban. With that information, I tried to appeal the suspension with hopes that someone would simply check the age of my account, but that was unsuccessful. This leads me to wonder if the bot picked up on something that might have happened 11 years ago. Is that possible?
Once the 3-day supension passed, I thought everything was resolved, and I [concluded my conversation with the mod](https://i.imgur.com/o6HFcCH.jpg).
The whole exchange never answered my initial question. I don't really want to press the issue any further with the mods there - they're busy enough in that sub, and it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. I just want to be sure I don't break any rules in the future, but I need to know what I did wrong to begin with.
Can anyone tell me what happened here?
Moderator defending racism by flagging as harassment.I am seeking: Disciplining of the moderator, or the complete removal as a moderator. Nothing less is acceptable, as it would say that reddit is defending racism, and most courts will agree.
What happened: Inappropriately categorised as threatening, harassment, or bullying - Done by the moderator in defence of racism.
Screenshots: [https://imgur.com/a/HQzaksx](https://imgur.com/a/HQzaksx)
Reasoning:
1. Post asks the question.
2. Honest answer is given.
3. Honest answer is correct. Rightfully calling out racism and using common language to point out it is deplorable is NOT:
1. Threatening: Was any threatening action mentioned? No. Mod is defending racism.
2. Harassing: Whom was harassed? No one. If someone is feeling harassed by my comment, they would, first, have to identify as a racist themselves. Second, they would have to have been subjected to persistent attacks by me, which they are not. I can't even know who the mod is. So this is a lie.
3. Bullying: Quite the opposite. My honest comment denouncing racism gets flagged by a moderator. Noun - abuse and mistreatment of someone vulnerable by someone stronger, more powerful, etc. Adjective - prone to or characterised by overbearing mistreatment and domination of others.
What you have here is a moderator defending racism, pure and simple. The comment made no threats. The comment is not harassing. The comment cannot be bullying, as racism itself is bullying. It cannot be bullying to speak against bullying.
Fix this and fix it now.
Permabanned with no explanation**I am seeking:** To understand why was I permabanned without an explanation and depending on the answer maybe unbanned.
**What happened:** The sub is being spammed with karma farmers of trans rights memes.
Everyone is tired saying the sub is being raided by anime circle jerk users and the mods don't help...
When I [questioned](https://www.unddit.com/r/animememes/comments/11djjlb/listen_to_zero_two/ja9obyk/?context=3) the op about the spam of memes, I got a question instead of answer then I asked the op to use an answer and not a question and got the exact same reply, I got permabanned right away just like that...
I [messaged](https://imgur.com/a/SbCXoUO) the mods asking why was I permabanned and so far got no answer...
Permabanned, no reason given, no reply from the mods, muted for 28 daysI was permabanned from r/news, afaik none of my comments broke the rules, and all of my comments that day received between 50 and 300 upvotes which indicates I wasn’t saying stuff that everyone disagreed with. They clearly didn’t ban for a specific comment as none was linked in my ban message, I asked the mods what comment I was banned for and was ignored, the ban message didn’t have any custom text at all, just the standard message. When I chased it up again today, I was muted from modmail for 28 days still without a single reply from the mods telling me why I was banned. I want to be unbanned as this is a totally unacceptable way for the modteam of a sub so big to behave and just seems unfair and biased.
[Link](https://imgur.com/gallery/w0ajFh5)to my message showing them not telling me why I was banned despite asking nicely twice, then being muted still without even a hint as to why im banned and why it’s permanent.
Proposal for a "safe" appeal process.**I am seeking:** to have an appeal process: That is a 'safe' place in which to appeal a decision.
In one sub I have been posting we do not have such a place. In the real world, the law provides an appeal process. It is not necessary that an appeal be accepted - but to have a process, it must be "OK" for an appeal to be made.
As things are, it is not OK. Our moderation system works like a cop giving out a ticket. There is nothing at all wrong with giving out a ticket. But the ticket should say something - including the actual rule broken. And it should include a notice of what the appeal process is.
And it should be "safe" to engage in the appeal process. But as things are there is no "OK" to engage in appeals. The reason its not OK? Because the same person who made the decision is the one hearing it. And to him/her it just sounds like they are hearing a user "making more noise" challenging "their" ruling. That isn't safe. What is likely to happen is the moderator who is understandably annoyed is probably going to ban the user.
(I am a moderator as well as a user. I mention that though the sub I moderate rarely if ever has issues like this).
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**What happened** in this other sub is just what I described. I was told that a post I made was "off topic." In reality, I showed that it wasn't, at least according to the description provided by the subreddit.
I appreciate the moderators time in hearing what I had to say. But arguing with a moderator is like arguing with a traffic cop. It just doesn't work. It can't work. The cop (or the moderator) is going to get annoyed and think "he's trying to debate me."
That simply isn't a safe appeal process.
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**What happens next:** It winds up with an annoyed moderator and a annoyed user who at best experiences that they have been "shut down." And if they continue or say "I'm not debating" they probably wind up suspended.
Finally: **What we could do instead:** The process that is described right here in this sub is possibly a model for a reasonable process - that is for what to do. I'm going to insert a process idea that includes a "ticket:"
1) Instead of simply taking an action (like removing the users offensive or wrong input, create a ticket.
2) The ticket should refer directly to the ruling made by the moderator. The ticket could have a number on it so that it can be referred to.
3) The ticket should refer to the rule or rules broken by the user or reason the users input was disallowed.
4) However, the ticket should also refer to an appeal process that the user can participate in. The appeal process could result in an "appeal hearing" and date and time at which the user could make a request.
The point is that engaging in the appeal process is a "safe" action for the user to take. No one is hurt by it. And The user doesn't have to engage. But if they do there is no penalty for doing so.
This avoids the situation we have now where the user feels shut off and where they are very likely to be penalized if they continue to engage with the moderator at that point - just as a driver would be penalized if they argued with a traffic cop.
**Additional notes**: *First*, I did a cursory check of messages on the sub to see if someone had already proposed a solution like this - so if you know of one, please tell me. I'll communicate with the authors and maybe we can come up with a better idea than what I have here.
When I did this search what I found instead of a duplicate here - is a huge number of people with severe problems who could benefit from an appeal ticketing system.
*Second,* building an appeal ticketing system and process is not "free." It takes work. It would rely on a data store and some programming to set up ticketing and appeal scheduling. And it would also require people to be appeal judges. But it would take a lot of the burden off moderators.
*Third,* I have not checked with other social media systems (LinkedIn, FB, etc) to see if they already have similar systems. That is something we should investigate. If there is, possiby we could leverage a system that has already been created - but I also note that we Reddit have an incredible amount of talented programmers right here who could participate and contribute to this.
Thank you very much for reading this. If it makes sense to you - great. If not, thanks for reading it anyway.
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All the best,
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Rich
r/Massachusetts mod straight up lied.Completely lied about their reason for banning me, then muted me for 28 days after I replied "why?" to the banning mail. Completely baffling.
I have been muted and perma banned from r/calisthenic...and I cannot contact the mods because again, I have been muted
Does anyone know who the mods are so I can contact them directly? I don't find any info on the sub itself.
The thing is, I never even posted anything! I planned a post for when I reach and record my 10 pull-up milestone but yeah.
And I never intentionally made a rude comment. If I did anything wrong I'd prefer being warned first, I can take some criticism, I don't want to be an a-hole. Same with other rules like misinformation, unnecessary comments etc.
I'd like to be either unbanned or given a reason for why they did that.
Thanks in advance
Additional note: if the sub is that weird about banning maybe I don't want to be there. I'd like to be redirected to a similar community that doesn't do such things:/
Perma banned and always instantly muted when i try appealI am seeking: Them to unban me or at least hear me out without muting me. Or if neither of them can happen, some advice on how to talk to them so they hear me out.
What happened: I got banned on [r/gaming](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/) in october because apparently my account was flagged for ban evasion. Now i was extremely confused as ive never done this before so i messaged them saying that and i got instantly muted. (Just for some context btw, i was temp banned a few times before for breaking rules like 'prompts must be in text format' but i have always admitted i should have read all the rules.)
Some examples of the sort of posts im talking about
[https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/xzkmja/describe\_a\_game\_badly\_and\_see\_if\_anyone\_can\_guess/](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/xzkmja/describe_a_game_badly_and_see_if_anyone_can_guess/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/yol0ct/youre\_just\_a\_cheap\_fucking\_knock\_off/](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/yol0ct/youre_just_a_cheap_fucking_knock_off/)
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Now im not even sure my account was flagged for ban evasion as i havent heard anything about that from anyone apart from them. No message from reddit or anything shown to me, and no other moderators have mentioned it. All i can see is that the post i tried to make before i got banned was removed because some tool thought it was spam. Even if they are telling the truth about the ban evasion thing which they most likely are as idk why they would lie, i spoke to support and they told me it is a tool in beta that doesnt neccesarily mean i have ban evaded, but even if it was a mistake to mark my account as it, they cant do anything. Now when my mute was lifted after a month, i tried explaining that to them in a very polite way but got instantly muted again. I then waited out the mute again and explained why i feel i should be unbanned, and this time i actually got a response. They said 'get reddit to confirm you didnt evade your ban and we will see' then they instantly muted me.
After they said that, i messaged reddit support multiple times asking them for help but all i got were bot responses saying 'we cant change it and we cant unban you as its up to the moderators' i understood that but asked them to just confirm to the mods i didnt ban evade but i had no response.When the month was up, i told them this and explained i have tried everything i could but they wont respond, and explained why i should be unbanned. They then responded just by saying 'we dont want you in our sub' and muted me again. I then waited it out again, and today explained i just want to have a conversation at least or understand why they keep doing this, but they muted me without responding.
I honestly dont know what to do. I cant just 'find another sub' as its the biggest and im sure only sub where you can just talk about all things gaming. I just want to share a community with people about something i love and am passionate about. Ive tried explaining all of this but they dont listen. Its not like ive been rude or anything too, i know thats going to get me nowhere so i have been as polite as possible but nothing works.
[Here is the link to the modmail messages](https://imgur.com/a/8gKrHWH)
Perma banned for alleged transphobia after replying to a user who was asking if OP was transI am seeking: Unban, or temp ban. Couldn't really have a conversation with the moderator as I was muted after 2 sentences. I concede I could have been more thoughtful towards OP's feelings.
What happened:
Thread was a picture of a person celebrating sobriety with a cake.
I replied to a comment asking if OP was trans with "Can kinda tell due to the Adams apple". There was no hatred / malice / intended transphobia in my reply, just replying to a curious individual. I was perma banned for this.
Conversation with the mod team;
Errrr? Why am I banned for this? Wasn't said in hatred or anything, simply pointing out a masculine feature o.O
- Is it okay if the post can be about the OP being sober and getting cake, and not all about their medical history? Thanks!
I mean sure but I was only replying to someone who was curous - not sure there's anything in the rules to warrant a perma ban for that?
- There's absolutely something in the rules for someone being an absolute jerk and a transphobic person.
I was then perma muted from the major subreddit for 28 days.
Idk - am I in the wrong here? I've been on reddit using this acc for like 10 years and never been banned - feels pretty bad, especially when trying to explain that it wasn't my intention to offend anyone. Before I could respond to the mod trying to explain myself, I was just muted.
It looks like there's A LOT of removed comments, so perhaps the mod was just super pissed off at people?
I would accept a temporary ban if that would be sufficient, but I think being shut out of an entire main subreddit for such a small comment is a bit rash?
Edit: I've now been reported for hate speech as well, to Reddit?...
Very Sad News for the SubSo, as I'm sure everyone has noticed, we can't keep up.
This sub requires a HUGE amount of work, and even with the 3 'perm' mods we have, none of us have the bandwidth to dedicate hours here.
With the way this sub works, we need, I believe, at least 3 more mods. And we've had trouble getting even 3 perm ones.
Part if it is that while I run the place, and make many of the behind the scenes decisions, I'm really not that great at 'properly' approving posts even tho I mostly determine what is proper.
I've tried in the past to get mods from the 'looking for mods' subs, but people from those subs tend to not understand and quickly decide they aren't a fit here. So we kind of need to pull from our own base, which further complicates issues.
So, with that in mind, we are putting the sub on Hiatus until something changes. There is at least one other idea that is being floated, and that may be what happens.
To all of you awaiting approvals - I'm sorry, it's not going to happen. We have been victims of our own success. I am sorry that we don't have the resources to continue helping in the same way.
Edit: Just so ppl dont' think I'm ignoring replies, I wanted to let y'all know that I will read everything. I may or may not reply individually. But I do encourage my team to reply as they see fit.
Very Sad News for the SubSo, as I'm sure everyone has noticed, we can't keep up.
This sub requires a HUGE amount of work, and even with the 3 'perm' mods we have, none of us have the bandwidth to dedicate hours here.
With the way this sub works, we need, I believe, at least 3 more mods. And we've had trouble getting even 3 perm ones.
Part if it is that while I run the place, and make many of the behind the scenes decisions, I'm really not that great at 'properly' approving posts even tho I mostly determine what is proper.
I've tried in the past to get mods from the 'looking for mods' subs, but people from those subs tend to not understand and quickly decide they aren't a fit here. So we kind of need to pull from our own base, which further complicates issues.
So, with that in mind, we are putting the sub on Hiatus until something changes. There is at least one other idea that is being floated, and that may be what happens.
To all of you awaiting approvals - I'm sorry, it's not going to happen. We have been victims of our own success. I am sorry that we don't have the resources to continue helping in the same way.
Edit: Just so ppl dont' think I'm ignoring replies, I wanted to let y'all know that I will read everything. I may or may not reply individually. But I do encourage my team to reply as they see fit.
Very Sad News for the SubSo, as I'm sure everyone has noticed, we can't keep up.
This sub requires a HUGE amount of work, and even with the 3 'perm' mods we have, none of us have the bandwidth to dedicate hours here.
With the way this sub works, we need, I believe, at least 3 more mods. And we've had trouble getting even 3 perm ones.
Part if it is that while I run the place, and make many of the behind the scenes decisions, I'm really not that great at 'properly' approving posts even tho I mostly determine what is proper.
I've tried in the past to get mods from the 'looking for mods' subs, but people from those subs tend to not understand and quickly decide they aren't a fit here. So we kind of need to pull from our own base, which further complicates issues.
So, with that in mind, we are putting the sub on Hiatus until something changes. There is at least one other idea that is being floated, and that may be what happens.
To all of you awaiting approvals - I'm sorry, it's not going to happen. We have been victims of our own success. I am sorry that we don't have the resources to continue helping in the same way.
Edit: Just so ppl dont' think I'm ignoring replies, I wanted to let y'all know that I will read everything. I may or may not reply individually. But I do encourage my team to reply as they see fit.
It's Carnival!And the 2 lead mods live in places that care about this. So this weekend thru Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) the sub will be very very slow to respond.
Permaban - can we use alts?>You’ve been permanently banned by the Reddit admin team for violating Reddit’s rule against promoting hate in the following content.
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>Link to reported content: [https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11aovp9/comment/j9tcjrk](https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11aovp9/comment/j9tcjrk)
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>Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. We don’t tolerate promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability, and any communities or people that encourage or incite violence or hate towards marginalized or vulnerable groups will be banned.
>
>*If you use Reddit with a different account* ***and continue to promote hate***\*, you will be in violation of Reddit’s rule against ban evasion, and any additional accounts you have will be banned.\*
>
>If you believe this ban was a mistake, make sure you read and understand Reddit’s [User Agreement](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement) and the rules outlined in the [Content Policy](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy). If after reviewing the policy and agreement, you still believe something went wrong, you can [submit an appeal](https://www.reddit.com/appeals).
**Does this mean I can use alt accounts so long as I don't get an infraction for promoting hate?**
I am trying to get my main account un-banned but the first human review failed.
I was replying in this thread: [https://www.unddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11aovp9/why\_nigerians\_arent\_turning\_to\_the\_enaira\_despite/](https://www.unddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11aovp9/why_nigerians_arent_turning_to_the_enaira_despite/)
You can see the context - I was clearly talking about **COUNTRIES.** I replied to "Nigerians do not use the CFA.." I basically said sorry my bad it was its neighbor ( mentioned it by name ) and got banned. I was careful to spell it correctly without the double gg.
I put in a second appeal, but I am not really hopeful. I just want to use reddit in peace.
I even asked the site admins if:
>If my main account is permanently suspended for "spreading hate" am i allowed to use the alt account on Reddit so long as I don't break that rule?
>
>Or is it considered ban evasion?
there reply:
>Hi, thanks for the report.
>
>Unfortunately, to take action on ban evasion, we require a mod of the subreddit that the user has been banned from to report the user. Ultimately, it's up to the mods on how they want to enforce their subreddit bans - and we've seen cases where they know that someone is on an alt and choose not to enforce the ban.
It didn't directly answer my question but I get what I am trying to say
Am I breaking the rules of reddit by using Alts while my main account is banned?
Should I wait until its unbanned, I feel like this might never happen given my current interaction with reddit Admins.
Permaban - can we use alts?>You’ve been permanently banned by the Reddit admin team for violating Reddit’s rule against promoting hate in the following content.
>
>Link to reported content: [https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11aovp9/comment/j9tcjrk](https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11aovp9/comment/j9tcjrk)
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>Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for attacking marginalized or vulnerable groups of people. We don’t tolerate promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability, and any communities or people that encourage or incite violence or hate towards marginalized or vulnerable groups will be banned.
>
>*If you use Reddit with a different account* ***and continue to promote hate***\*, you will be in violation of Reddit’s rule against ban evasion, and any additional accounts you have will be banned.\*
>
>If you believe this ban was a mistake, make sure you read and understand Reddit’s [User Agreement](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement) and the rules outlined in the [Content Policy](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy). If after reviewing the policy and agreement, you still believe something went wrong, you can [submit an appeal](https://www.reddit.com/appeals).
**Does this mean I can use alt accounts so long as I don't get an infraction for promoting hate?**
I am trying to get my main account un-banned but the first human review failed.
I was replying in this thread: [https://www.unddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11aovp9/why\_nigerians\_arent\_turning\_to\_the\_enaira\_despite/](https://www.unddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/11aovp9/why_nigerians_arent_turning_to_the_enaira_despite/)
You can see the context - I was clearly talking about **COUNTRIES.** I replied to "Nigerians do not use the CFA.." I basically said sorry my bad it was its neighbor ( mentioned it by name ) and got banned. I was careful to spell it correctly without the double gg.
I put in a second appeal, but I am not really hopeful. I just want to use reddit in peace.
I even asked the site admins if:
>If my main account is permanently suspended for "spreading hate" am i allowed to use the alt account on Reddit so long as I don't break that rule?
>
>Or is it considered ban evasion?
there reply:
>Hi, thanks for the report.
>
>Unfortunately, to take action on ban evasion, we require a mod of the subreddit that the user has been banned from to report the user. Ultimately, it's up to the mods on how they want to enforce their subreddit bans - and we've seen cases where they know that someone is on an alt and choose not to enforce the ban.
It didn't directly answer my question but I get what I am trying to say
Am I breaking the rules of reddit by using Alts while my main account is banned?
Should I wait until its unbanned, I feel like this might never happen given my current interaction with reddit Admins.
U/PJ09Anyone else have a problem with this person?
I literally said his decision to remove my post was illogical and he banned me from applewatch for life. Several people online say the bans he gives out aren’t even okayed with the rest of the moderators so they’re basically fake bans. Is there anyway I can speak to a different moderator?
U/PJ09Anyone else have a problem with this person?
I literally said his decision to remove my post was illogical and he banned me from applewatch for life. Several people online say the bans he gives out aren’t even okayed with the rest of the moderators so they’re basically fake bans. Is there anyway I can speak to a different moderator?
Sitewide Account Suspension - all users are suspended, appeal is not being grantedI had two main accounts, one was named after my first.last, so I made another one to be more anonymous. This second one's name was autogenerated by Reddit. They have relatively decent karma and both had recently been awarded some type of Reddit currency.
The only description provided was "multiple violations of the content policy". When I tried to appeal, it just says "Denied, multiple violations of the content policy". I read the content policy and had to cross match against all comments and posts I've ever made on these accounts. I really wasn't seeing it. I never have had a warning on any of them. Is it the "Remember the human" - Bullying, clause? I feel like that could be applied to any negative statement or argument with another person if they wanted to.. If it was that I was rude to someone once or twice, it still seems oddly severe.
This did happen right after I made another new account. I didn't do anything on that account except subscribe to some subreddits. I'm not sure where to turn or what to do.
Sitewide Account Suspension - all users are suspended, appeal is not being grantedI had two main accounts, one was named after my first.last, so I made another one to be more anonymous. This second one's name was autogenerated by Reddit. They have relatively decent karma and both had recently been awarded some type of Reddit currency.
The only description provided was "multiple violations of the content policy". When I tried to appeal, it just says "Denied, multiple violations of the content policy". I read the content policy and had to cross match against all comments and posts I've ever made on these accounts. I really wasn't seeing it. I never have had a warning on any of them. Is it the "Remember the human" - Bullying, clause? I feel like that could be applied to any negative statement or argument with another person if they wanted to.. If it was that I was rude to someone once or twice, it still seems oddly severe.
This did happen right after I made another new account. I didn't do anything on that account except subscribe to some subreddits. I'm not sure where to turn or what to do.
Post removed using incorrect ruleNot sure why, the first post removal I let slide but now the mod is trying to make up a reason after using a rule that doesn’t apply - what do you think?
Post removed using incorrect ruleNot sure why, the first post removal I let slide but now the mod is trying to make up a reason after using a rule that doesn’t apply - what do you think?
Permanently banned with no initial explanation, immediately muted after finally getting one.**I am seeking:** To be unbanned from the subreddit, to have a conversation with the mod team if possible to better understand why I was banned as I believe my comment may have been misinterpreted and a conversation would probably clear things up, or at the very least just be heard.
**What happened:** I was banned from r/TheRightCantMeme with no initial explanation after commenting on post. When I replied to the ban message, I got no reply. I messaged the mod team separately asking why I was banned and they said "racism, misinformation, and general liberal nonsense". My comment could ***maybe*** be construed as "general liberal nonsense", but was in NO WAY racist or misinformation. After this reason was given to me, they immediately muted me for 28 days. To add insult to injury, they also finally responded to my initial question on the ban message simply saying "hi" knowing full well that I wouldn't be able to respond.
Screenshots of the post, my comment, and mod convo. I'm new to using Imgur so please let me know if you're unable to see the screenshots: [https://imgur.com/a/yUvKYRD](https://imgur.com/a/yUvKYRD)
Permanently banned with no initial explanation, immediately muted after finally getting one.**I am seeking:** To be unbanned from the subreddit, to have a conversation with the mod team if possible to better understand why I was banned as I believe my comment may have been misinterpreted and a conversation would probably clear things up, or at the very least just be heard.
**What happened:** I was banned from r/TheRightCantMeme with no initial explanation after commenting on post. When I replied to the ban message, I got no reply. I messaged the mod team separately asking why I was banned and they said "racism, misinformation, and general liberal nonsense". My comment could ***maybe*** be construed as "general liberal nonsense", but was in NO WAY racist or misinformation. After this reason was given to me, they immediately muted me for 28 days. To add insult to injury, they also finally responded to my initial question on the ban message simply saying "hi" knowing full well that I wouldn't be able to respond.
Screenshots of the post, my comment, and mod convo. I'm new to using Imgur so please let me know if you're unable to see the screenshots: [https://imgur.com/a/yUvKYRD](https://imgur.com/a/yUvKYRD)
Is this idea of mediation with moderators going anywhere? Is reddit willing to do this?The problems of moderation on Reddit belong to Reddit. It is not the "fault" of this sub. But I would like more answer than just saying "Your post has been locked."
Where are we going? Because what I observe now is that Reddit has become quasi-government who enables moderators to 1) ignore facts 2) ignore good behavior 3) take away freedom of speech for no reason.
Reddit itself does not appear to be mediating. I have no indication that they have told the moderator they are wrong. The post the moderator complains I "deleted" is still there.
It is just no in the input queue. So if they asked me for evidence I can supply that. I even have saved a link to the post that the moderator complains I "deleted" to try to destroy evidence.
So if all this sub amounts to something about mediation or even a place to post "hey reddit isn't mediating" I'm glad it exists.
But I would still like to know that there is a "there there" here. And/or that reddit can see the moderator has made a mistake. And/or how to cope with a moderator who ignores the facts and uses ignoring the facts to see behavior in the worst possible light.
That's three possibilities. Or is it just not worth my time hoping for moderators who are informed and things to get fixed..
Thanks. If anyone actually reads this before "locking my post" please feel free to speak up.
-- Rich
Is this idea of mediation with moderators going anywhere? Is reddit willing to do this?The problems of moderation on Reddit belong to Reddit. It is not the "fault" of this sub. But I would like more answer than just saying "Your post has been locked."
Where are we going? Because what I observe now is that Reddit has become quasi-government who enables moderators to 1) ignore facts 2) ignore good behavior 3) take away freedom of speech for no reason.
Reddit itself does not appear to be mediating. I have no indication that they have told the moderator they are wrong. The post the moderator complains I "deleted" is still there.
It is just no in the input queue. So if they asked me for evidence I can supply that. I even have saved a link to the post that the moderator complains I "deleted" to try to destroy evidence.
So if all this sub amounts to something about mediation or even a place to post "hey reddit isn't mediating" I'm glad it exists.
But I would still like to know that there is a "there there" here. And/or that reddit can see the moderator has made a mistake. And/or how to cope with a moderator who ignores the facts and uses ignoring the facts to see behavior in the worst possible light.
That's three possibilities. Or is it just not worth my time hoping for moderators who are informed and things to get fixed..
Thanks. If anyone actually reads this before "locking my post" please feel free to speak up.
-- Rich
I want to report the kids of r/pokemonThey are overstepping by removing posts that don’t violate their rules. They have a rule, #8, that says “no screenshots” and they removed my posts that contained photographs. Then I was muted for 28 days from contacting the mods of that subreddit. They are breaking their own rules and they are evil.
I want to report the kids of r/pokemonThey are overstepping by removing posts that don’t violate their rules. They have a rule, #8, that says “no screenshots” and they removed my posts that contained photographs. Then I was muted for 28 days from contacting the mods of that subreddit. They are breaking their own rules and they are evil.
Permabanned without reason, after pointing out a breach of Reddit TOSI am seeking: To be unbanned from r/news. I also would like to understand why I got banned without explanation.
What happened: I saw [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/) and was shocked by the amount of [comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbma7yg/) [calling](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbm82y7/) [for](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbm58a0/) [harm](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbly362/) [and](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbm71eh/) [death](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbljgom/). I [commented](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbkt1lg/?context=3) that the amount of comments blatantly breaking Reddit TOS (advocating death or harm) was mind-boggling and that I disapproved.
None of my comments were removed - I was simply permabanned. To my knowledge, none of my comments were snarky or demeaning, or violated any other rules of the subreddit - unlike most of the top comments, which make fun of someone being hospitalized. I only asked that people stop wishing death on another person.
Thanks in advance.
Permabanned without reason, after pointing out a breach of Reddit TOSI am seeking: To be unbanned from r/news. I also would like to understand why I got banned without explanation.
What happened: I saw [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/) and was shocked by the amount of [comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbma7yg/) [calling](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbm82y7/) [for](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbm58a0/) [harm](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbly362/) [and](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbm71eh/) [death](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbljgom/). I [commented](https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/11muthn/senate_gop_leader_mitch_mcconnell_hospitalized/jbkt1lg/?context=3) that the amount of comments blatantly breaking Reddit TOS (advocating death or harm) was mind-boggling and that I disapproved.
None of my comments were removed - I was simply permabanned. To my knowledge, none of my comments were snarky or demeaning, or violated any other rules of the subreddit - unlike most of the top comments, which make fun of someone being hospitalized. I only asked that people stop wishing death on another person.
Thanks in advance.
The form for reporting a problem requires that I identify a moderator by nameThis sub does not appear to ever reveal that information to my knowledge.
If I don't put in a name the form won't go through.
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I really really need help with this. The moderator has thus far worked to completely misunderstand what my behavior was and my motives.
I feel this needs to be cleared out. Otherwise when I come back to the sub the moderator will seek to find yet another reason to ban me. I feel that the moderator must be talked down from this position in some way by someone. Thus far the admins have not been helpful at all.
The form for reporting a problem requires that I identify a moderator by nameThis sub does not appear to ever reveal that information to my knowledge.
If I don't put in a name the form won't go through.
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I really really need help with this. The moderator has thus far worked to completely misunderstand what my behavior was and my motives.
I feel this needs to be cleared out. Otherwise when I come back to the sub the moderator will seek to find yet another reason to ban me. I feel that the moderator must be talked down from this position in some way by someone. Thus far the admins have not been helpful at all.
11 year-old account "flagged for ban evasion". Can someone explain what happened here?Hi Alll,
I'm hoping someone here could give me an ELI5 summary of what happened here. I've been on Reddit for a long time, but I've never been banned before and I don't understand how any of this works.
It started last weekend when I received a message that my comment in r/AmITheAsshole has been flagged for ban evasion. My first thought was that the warning came because I edited my comment in a locked thread (I didn't know it was locked when I edited it) because I got the message immediately after doing so. Or, that my comment had some unfortunate keywords in it that triggered a Reddit bot. Is this a possiblity? There was nothing offensive about the comment itself but I've since deleted it anyway, just to be safe.
Though it seemed my account was not effected in any way, the message said I could reply if I had any questions. This is the [resulting conversation](https://i.imgur.com/YWnbIk2.jpg).
After that last message from the mod, a red bar appeared at the top of my page saying I was suspended for three days, so I didn't (couldn't) continue the exchange.
My suspension came immediately after the mod found out I used a shared computer, but I don't think that could be an issue. I'm always careful to log out of my account and I never click the "remember me" button when I log in. Besides, the initial flag came from a comment I posted on my home computer that no one else uses. Could there be any issue here?
The orginal bot message said "ban evasion", so I researched to see what that might be about. My account is nearly 11 years old, so it obviously wasn't created to evade a ban. With that information, I tried to appeal the suspension with hopes that someone would simply check the age of my account, but that was unsuccessful. This leads me to wonder if the bot picked up on something that might have happened 11 years ago. Is that possible?
Once the 3-day supension passed, I thought everything was resolved, and I [concluded my conversation with the mod](https://i.imgur.com/o6HFcCH.jpg).
The whole exchange never answered my initial question. I don't really want to press the issue any further with the mods there - they're busy enough in that sub, and it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. I just want to be sure I don't break any rules in the future, but I need to know what I did wrong to begin with.
Can anyone tell me what happened here?
11 year-old account "flagged for ban evasion". Can someone explain what happened here?Hi Alll,
I'm hoping someone here could give me an ELI5 summary of what happened here. I've been on Reddit for a long time, but I've never been banned before and I don't understand how any of this works.
It started last weekend when I received a message that my comment in r/AmITheAsshole has been flagged for ban evasion. My first thought was that the warning came because I edited my comment in a locked thread (I didn't know it was locked when I edited it) because I got the message immediately after doing so. Or, that my comment had some unfortunate keywords in it that triggered a Reddit bot. Is this a possiblity? There was nothing offensive about the comment itself but I've since deleted it anyway, just to be safe.
Though it seemed my account was not effected in any way, the message said I could reply if I had any questions. This is the [resulting conversation](https://i.imgur.com/YWnbIk2.jpg).
After that last message from the mod, a red bar appeared at the top of my page saying I was suspended for three days, so I didn't (couldn't) continue the exchange.
My suspension came immediately after the mod found out I used a shared computer, but I don't think that could be an issue. I'm always careful to log out of my account and I never click the "remember me" button when I log in. Besides, the initial flag came from a comment I posted on my home computer that no one else uses. Could there be any issue here?
The orginal bot message said "ban evasion", so I researched to see what that might be about. My account is nearly 11 years old, so it obviously wasn't created to evade a ban. With that information, I tried to appeal the suspension with hopes that someone would simply check the age of my account, but that was unsuccessful. This leads me to wonder if the bot picked up on something that might have happened 11 years ago. Is that possible?
Once the 3-day supension passed, I thought everything was resolved, and I [concluded my conversation with the mod](https://i.imgur.com/o6HFcCH.jpg).
The whole exchange never answered my initial question. I don't really want to press the issue any further with the mods there - they're busy enough in that sub, and it's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. I just want to be sure I don't break any rules in the future, but I need to know what I did wrong to begin with.
Can anyone tell me what happened here?
Banned for "agendaposting," even though I wasn't**I am seeking:**
To be unbanned
**What happened:**
I’ve been subbed to r/entertainment for years and posted there frequently.
I recently posted a link to a story about furries harassing cast members at a Disney park:
https://old.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/11mcbvm/furries_sexually_harass_characters_get_kicked/
I got a message that the post was moved because it was "off-topic." I thought that was weird because there have been stories about Disney parks in the past on the same sub, so I responded and even linked some examples.
I got no response, but got a message saying that I had been permabanned for "agendaposting" and another saying I had been muted:
https://imgur.com/a/KFeu0L1
Banned for "agendaposting," even though I wasn't**I am seeking:**
To be unbanned
**What happened:**
I’ve been subbed to r/entertainment for years and posted there frequently.
I recently posted a link to a story about furries harassing cast members at a Disney park:
https://old.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/11mcbvm/furries_sexually_harass_characters_get_kicked/
I got a message that the post was moved because it was "off-topic." I thought that was weird because there have been stories about Disney parks in the past on the same sub, so I responded and even linked some examples.
I got no response, but got a message saying that I had been permabanned for "agendaposting" and another saying I had been muted:
https://imgur.com/a/KFeu0L1
Permabanned from r/borrowOnly came across this P2P lending sub today and it is exactly what I’ve been looking for. I’ve already extended a loan to one person of £165 and have offered other people. I apparently was banned and added to the universal scammer list with no reason. I am not a scammer or #sketchy like it says on the USL, I am willing to provide any proof (ID, bank statements etc) to be unbanned.
Please could I either get a reason of my ban or an unban.
Permabanned from r/borrowOnly came across this P2P lending sub today and it is exactly what I’ve been looking for. I’ve already extended a loan to one person of £165 and have offered other people. I apparently was banned and added to the universal scammer list with no reason. I am not a scammer or #sketchy like it says on the USL, I am willing to provide any proof (ID, bank statements etc) to be unbanned.
Please could I either get a reason of my ban or an unban.
I am seeking: to be unbanned from a subreddit and a courteous explanation to why I was banned in the first place.What happened: I genuinely do not know. I commented asking a question from something on r/all because I didn't understand the implications of what was said. Was instantly banned and when I inquired about the ban they provided no answer and then muted me.
I am seeking: to be unbanned from a subreddit and a courteous explanation to why I was banned in the first place.What happened: I genuinely do not know. I commented asking a question from something on r/all because I didn't understand the implications of what was said. Was instantly banned and when I inquired about the ban they provided no answer and then muted me.
Perma banned for alleged transphobia after replying to a user who was asking if OP was transI am seeking: Unban, or temp ban. Couldn't really have a conversation with the moderator as I was muted after 2 sentences. I concede I could have been more thoughtful towards OP's feelings.
What happened:
Thread was a picture of a person celebrating sobriety with a cake.
I replied to a comment asking if OP was trans with "Can kinda tell due to the Adams apple". There was no hatred / malice / intended transphobia in my reply, just replying to a curious individual. I was perma banned for this.
Conversation with the mod team;
Errrr? Why am I banned for this? Wasn't said in hatred or anything, simply pointing out a masculine feature o.O
- Is it okay if the post can be about the OP being sober and getting cake, and not all about their medical history? Thanks!
I mean sure but I was only replying to someone who was curous - not sure there's anything in the rules to warrant a perma ban for that?
- There's absolutely something in the rules for someone being an absolute jerk and a transphobic person.
I was then perma muted from the major subreddit for 28 days.
Idk - am I in the wrong here? I've been on reddit using this acc for like 10 years and never been banned - feels pretty bad, especially when trying to explain that it wasn't my intention to offend anyone. Before I could respond to the mod trying to explain myself, I was just muted.
It looks like there's A LOT of removed comments, so perhaps the mod was just super pissed off at people?
I would accept a temporary ban if that would be sufficient, but I think being shut out of an entire main subreddit for such a small comment is a bit rash?
Edit: I've now been reported for hate speech as well, to Reddit?...
Perma banned for alleged transphobia after replying to a user who was asking if OP was transI am seeking: Unban, or temp ban. Couldn't really have a conversation with the moderator as I was muted after 2 sentences. I concede I could have been more thoughtful towards OP's feelings.
What happened:
Thread was a picture of a person celebrating sobriety with a cake.
I replied to a comment asking if OP was trans with "Can kinda tell due to the Adams apple". There was no hatred / malice / intended transphobia in my reply, just replying to a curious individual. I was perma banned for this.
Conversation with the mod team;
Errrr? Why am I banned for this? Wasn't said in hatred or anything, simply pointing out a masculine feature o.O
- Is it okay if the post can be about the OP being sober and getting cake, and not all about their medical history? Thanks!
I mean sure but I was only replying to someone who was curous - not sure there's anything in the rules to warrant a perma ban for that?
- There's absolutely something in the rules for someone being an absolute jerk and a transphobic person.
I was then perma muted from the major subreddit for 28 days.
Idk - am I in the wrong here? I've been on reddit using this acc for like 10 years and never been banned - feels pretty bad, especially when trying to explain that it wasn't my intention to offend anyone. Before I could respond to the mod trying to explain myself, I was just muted.
It looks like there's A LOT of removed comments, so perhaps the mod was just super pissed off at people?
I would accept a temporary ban if that would be sufficient, but I think being shut out of an entire main subreddit for such a small comment is a bit rash?
Edit: I've now been reported for hate speech as well, to Reddit?...
Perma banned from /r/pics for replying to someone asking if OP was transPosted "Can kinda tell due to the Adams apple" in response to a user asking OP if they were a trans woman. Obviously not out of hatred / malice / whatever, simply just pointing out anatomical differences between men and women.
Reached out to the mod team asking why I was perma banned;
Errrr? Why am I banned for this? Wasn't said in hatred or anything, simply pointing out a masculine feature o.O
- Is it okay if the post can be about the OP being sober and getting cake, and not all about their medical history? Thanks!
I mean sure but I was only replying to someone who was curous - not sure there's anything in the rules to warrant a perma ban for that?
- There's absolutely something in the rules for someone being an absolute jerk and a transphobic person.
I was then perma muted from /r/pics for 28 days.
Idk - am I in the wrong here? I've been on reddit using this acc for like 10 years and never been banned - feels pretty bad, especially when trying to explain that it wasn't my intention to offend anyone.
[https://www.unddit.com/r/pics/comments/11klwzz/i\_celebrated\_1000\_days\_of\_sobriety\_with\_my/](https://www.unddit.com/r/pics/comments/11klwzz/i_celebrated_1000_days_of_sobriety_with_my/)
It looks like there's A LOT of removed comments, so perhaps the mod was just super pissed off at people?
I'd like to be unbanned. I would accept a temporary ban if that would be sufficient, but I think being shut out of an entire main subreddit for such a small comment is a bit rash?
Perma banned from /r/pics for replying to someone asking if OP was transPosted "Can kinda tell due to the Adams apple" in response to a user asking OP if they were a trans woman. Obviously not out of hatred / malice / whatever, simply just pointing out anatomical differences between men and women.
Reached out to the mod team asking why I was perma banned;
Errrr? Why am I banned for this? Wasn't said in hatred or anything, simply pointing out a masculine feature o.O
- Is it okay if the post can be about the OP being sober and getting cake, and not all about their medical history? Thanks!
I mean sure but I was only replying to someone who was curous - not sure there's anything in the rules to warrant a perma ban for that?
- There's absolutely something in the rules for someone being an absolute jerk and a transphobic person.
I was then perma muted from /r/pics for 28 days.
Idk - am I in the wrong here? I've been on reddit using this acc for like 10 years and never been banned - feels pretty bad, especially when trying to explain that it wasn't my intention to offend anyone.
[https://www.unddit.com/r/pics/comments/11klwzz/i\_celebrated\_1000\_days\_of\_sobriety\_with\_my/](https://www.unddit.com/r/pics/comments/11klwzz/i_celebrated_1000_days_of_sobriety_with_my/)
It looks like there's A LOT of removed comments, so perhaps the mod was just super pissed off at people?
I'd like to be unbanned. I would accept a temporary ban if that would be sufficient, but I think being shut out of an entire main subreddit for such a small comment is a bit rash?
Perma banned and always instantly muted when i try appealI am seeking: Them to unban me or at least hear me out without muting me. Or if neither of them can happen, some advice on how to talk to them so they hear me out.
What happened: I got banned on [r/gaming](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/) in october because apparently my account was flagged for ban evasion. Now i was extremely confused as ive never done this before so i messaged them saying that and i got instantly muted. (Just for some context btw, i was temp banned a few times before for breaking rules like 'prompts must be in text format' but i have always admitted i should have read all the rules.)
Some examples of the sort of posts im talking about
[https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/xzkmja/describe\_a\_game\_badly\_and\_see\_if\_anyone\_can\_guess/](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/xzkmja/describe_a_game_badly_and_see_if_anyone_can_guess/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/yol0ct/youre\_just\_a\_cheap\_fucking\_knock\_off/](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/yol0ct/youre_just_a_cheap_fucking_knock_off/)
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Now im not even sure my account was flagged for ban evasion as i havent heard anything about that from anyone apart from them. No message from reddit or anything shown to me, and no other moderators have mentioned it. All i can see is that the post i tried to make before i got banned was removed because some tool thought it was spam. Even if they are telling the truth about the ban evasion thing which they most likely are as idk why they would lie, i spoke to support and they told me it is a tool in beta that doesnt neccesarily mean i have ban evaded, but even if it was a mistake to mark my account as it, they cant do anything. Now when my mute was lifted after a month, i tried explaining that to them in a very polite way but got instantly muted again. I then waited out the mute again and explained why i feel i should be unbanned, and this time i actually got a response. They said 'get reddit to confirm you didnt evade your ban and we will see' then they instantly muted me.
After they said that, i messaged reddit support multiple times asking them for help but all i got were bot responses saying 'we cant change it and we cant unban you as its up to the moderators' i understood that but asked them to just confirm to the mods i didnt ban evade but i had no response.When the month was up, i told them this and explained i have tried everything i could but they wont respond, and explained why i should be unbanned. They then responded just by saying 'we dont want you in our sub' and muted me again. I then waited it out again, and today explained i just want to have a conversation at least or understand why they keep doing this, but they muted me without responding.
I honestly dont know what to do. I cant just 'find another sub' as its the biggest and im sure only sub where you can just talk about all things gaming. I just want to share a community with people about something i love and am passionate about. Ive tried explaining all of this but they dont listen. Its not like ive been rude or anything too, i know thats going to get me nowhere so i have been as polite as possible but nothing works.
[Here is the link to the modmail messages](https://imgur.com/a/8gKrHWH)
Perma banned and always instantly muted when i try appealI am seeking: Them to unban me or at least hear me out without muting me. Or if neither of them can happen, some advice on how to talk to them so they hear me out.
What happened: I got banned on [r/gaming](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/) in october because apparently my account was flagged for ban evasion. Now i was extremely confused as ive never done this before so i messaged them saying that and i got instantly muted. (Just for some context btw, i was temp banned a few times before for breaking rules like 'prompts must be in text format' but i have always admitted i should have read all the rules.)
Some examples of the sort of posts im talking about
[https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/xzkmja/describe\_a\_game\_badly\_and\_see\_if\_anyone\_can\_guess/](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/xzkmja/describe_a_game_badly_and_see_if_anyone_can_guess/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/yol0ct/youre\_just\_a\_cheap\_fucking\_knock\_off/](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/yol0ct/youre_just_a_cheap_fucking_knock_off/)
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Now im not even sure my account was flagged for ban evasion as i havent heard anything about that from anyone apart from them. No message from reddit or anything shown to me, and no other moderators have mentioned it. All i can see is that the post i tried to make before i got banned was removed because some tool thought it was spam. Even if they are telling the truth about the ban evasion thing which they most likely are as idk why they would lie, i spoke to support and they told me it is a tool in beta that doesnt neccesarily mean i have ban evaded, but even if it was a mistake to mark my account as it, they cant do anything. Now when my mute was lifted after a month, i tried explaining that to them in a very polite way but got instantly muted again. I then waited out the mute again and explained why i feel i should be unbanned, and this time i actually got a response. They said 'get reddit to confirm you didnt evade your ban and we will see' then they instantly muted me.
After they said that, i messaged reddit support multiple times asking them for help but all i got were bot responses saying 'we cant change it and we cant unban you as its up to the moderators' i understood that but asked them to just confirm to the mods i didnt ban evade but i had no response.When the month was up, i told them this and explained i have tried everything i could but they wont respond, and explained why i should be unbanned. They then responded just by saying 'we dont want you in our sub' and muted me again. I then waited it out again, and today explained i just want to have a conversation at least or understand why they keep doing this, but they muted me without responding.
I honestly dont know what to do. I cant just 'find another sub' as its the biggest and im sure only sub where you can just talk about all things gaming. I just want to share a community with people about something i love and am passionate about. Ive tried explaining all of this but they dont listen. Its not like ive been rude or anything too, i know thats going to get me nowhere so i have been as polite as possible but nothing works.
[Here is the link to the modmail messages](https://imgur.com/a/8gKrHWH)
I have been muted and perma banned from r/calisthenic...and I cannot contact the mods because again, I have been muted
Does anyone know who the mods are so I can contact them directly? I don't find any info on the sub itself.
The thing is, I never even posted anything! I planned a post for when I reach and record my 10 pull-up milestone but yeah.
And I never intentionally made a rude comment. If I did anything wrong I'd prefer being warned first, I can take some criticism, I don't want to be an a-hole. Same with other rules like misinformation, unnecessary comments etc.
I'd like to be either unbanned or given a reason for why they did that.
Thanks in advance
Additional note: if the sub is that weird about banning maybe I don't want to be there. I'd like to be redirected to a similar community that doesn't do such things:/
I have been muted and perma banned from r/calisthenic...and I cannot contact the mods because again, I have been muted
Does anyone know who the mods are so I can contact them directly? I don't find any info on the sub itself.
The thing is, I never even posted anything! I planned a post for when I reach and record my 10 pull-up milestone but yeah.
And I never intentionally made a rude comment. If I did anything wrong I'd prefer being warned first, I can take some criticism, I don't want to be an a-hole. Same with other rules like misinformation, unnecessary comments etc.
I'd like to be either unbanned or given a reason for why they did that.
Thanks in advance
Additional note: if the sub is that weird about banning maybe I don't want to be there. I'd like to be redirected to a similar community that doesn't do such things:/
Moderator defending racism by flagging as harassment.I am seeking: Disciplining of the moderator, or the complete removal as a moderator. Nothing less is acceptable, as it would say that reddit is defending racism, and most courts will agree.
What happened: Inappropriately categorised as threatening, harassment, or bullying - Done by the moderator in defence of racism.
Screenshots: [https://imgur.com/a/HQzaksx](https://imgur.com/a/HQzaksx)
Reasoning:
1. Post asks the question.
2. Honest answer is given.
3. Honest answer is correct. Rightfully calling out racism and using common language to point out it is deplorable is NOT:
1. Threatening: Was any threatening action mentioned? No. Mod is defending racism.
2. Harassing: Whom was harassed? No one. If someone is feeling harassed by my comment, they would, first, have to identify as a racist themselves. Second, they would have to have been subjected to persistent attacks by me, which they are not. I can't even know who the mod is. So this is a lie.
3. Bullying: Quite the opposite. My honest comment denouncing racism gets flagged by a moderator. Noun - abuse and mistreatment of someone vulnerable by someone stronger, more powerful, etc. Adjective - prone to or characterised by overbearing mistreatment and domination of others.
What you have here is a moderator defending racism, pure and simple. The comment made no threats. The comment is not harassing. The comment cannot be bullying, as racism itself is bullying. It cannot be bullying to speak against bullying.
Fix this and fix it now.
Moderator defending racism by flagging as harassment.I am seeking: Disciplining of the moderator, or the complete removal as a moderator. Nothing less is acceptable, as it would say that reddit is defending racism, and most courts will agree.
What happened: Inappropriately categorised as threatening, harassment, or bullying - Done by the moderator in defence of racism.
Screenshots: [https://imgur.com/a/HQzaksx](https://imgur.com/a/HQzaksx)
Reasoning:
1. Post asks the question.
2. Honest answer is given.
3. Honest answer is correct. Rightfully calling out racism and using common language to point out it is deplorable is NOT:
1. Threatening: Was any threatening action mentioned? No. Mod is defending racism.
2. Harassing: Whom was harassed? No one. If someone is feeling harassed by my comment, they would, first, have to identify as a racist themselves. Second, they would have to have been subjected to persistent attacks by me, which they are not. I can't even know who the mod is. So this is a lie.
3. Bullying: Quite the opposite. My honest comment denouncing racism gets flagged by a moderator. Noun - abuse and mistreatment of someone vulnerable by someone stronger, more powerful, etc. Adjective - prone to or characterised by overbearing mistreatment and domination of others.
What you have here is a moderator defending racism, pure and simple. The comment made no threats. The comment is not harassing. The comment cannot be bullying, as racism itself is bullying. It cannot be bullying to speak against bullying.
Fix this and fix it now.
banned from sub i never heard ofjust got a msg that i have been banned from a sub called justice served? i never heard of them. i went back in my comments a few months and didnt see anything for them. i dont remember joining this sub, i never even heard of them until i got the ban msg.
can you be banned from subs your not joined? how does that even work?
banned from sub i never heard ofjust got a msg that i have been banned from a sub called justice served? i never heard of them. i went back in my comments a few months and didnt see anything for them. i dont remember joining this sub, i never even heard of them until i got the ban msg.
can you be banned from subs your not joined? how does that even work?
Permabanned and muted for “racism”What I want: to be unbanned
What happened:
I was commenting on a post from r/theglowup where you comment on people’s posts who ask if they look good or what they can do to look good. Someone had made a post exactly like that and I commented under it saying they look good but I believe the durag they were wearing didn’t suit them in my opinion, I then got banned permanently and muted for racism, not sure how telling someone that a durag doesn’t suit them is racism, this is just wrong. I did not even tell this person not to wear it, on a subreddit made for criticism and where you ask for opinions, I don’t see how in any world this is racist.
Ban image: https://i.imgur.com/NAKzqwF.png
Comment image: https://i.imgur.com/KJrENEH.png
Permabanned and muted for “racism”What I want: to be unbanned
What happened:
I was commenting on a post from r/theglowup where you comment on people’s posts who ask if they look good or what they can do to look good. Someone had made a post exactly like that and I commented under it saying they look good but I believe the durag they were wearing didn’t suit them in my opinion, I then got banned permanently and muted for racism, not sure how telling someone that a durag doesn’t suit them is racism, this is just wrong. I did not even tell this person not to wear it, on a subreddit made for criticism and where you ask for opinions, I don’t see how in any world this is racist.
Ban image: https://i.imgur.com/NAKzqwF.png
Comment image: https://i.imgur.com/KJrENEH.png
Banned from WPT with no reason given**What i’m seeking:** to be unbanned from WPT, remain blocked by /u/Merari01 and have no further interaction with them.
What happened: I was banned for the comment at the bottom of this [imgur album.](https://imgur.com/gallery/WR6ZYa5)
screenshots 1-6 provide the discussion between myself and Merari01, the final two images show the commentary that resulted in this ban.
no reason for the ban was given, no discussion was acknowledge and all points made to the modmail correspondance were completely omitted and replied to with things completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.
[this moderator specifically has a history of repeatedly abusing their power.](https://www.reddit.com/r/N8theGr8/comments/x0piec/this_is_un8thegr8_im_back_to_explain_why_i/)
[why is this person allowed to moderate allegedly 200+ subreddits with behavior and abuse of power such as this?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ReportTheBadModerator/comments/apo3fr/umerari01_of_rinsanepeoplefacebook_rlifeprotips/)
Banned from WPT with no reason given**What i’m seeking:** to be unbanned from WPT, remain blocked by /u/Merari01 and have no further interaction with them.
What happened: I was banned for the comment at the bottom of this [imgur album.](https://imgur.com/gallery/WR6ZYa5)
screenshots 1-6 provide the discussion between myself and Merari01, the final two images show the commentary that resulted in this ban.
no reason for the ban was given, no discussion was acknowledge and all points made to the modmail correspondance were completely omitted and replied to with things completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.
[this moderator specifically has a history of repeatedly abusing their power.](https://www.reddit.com/r/N8theGr8/comments/x0piec/this_is_un8thegr8_im_back_to_explain_why_i/)
[why is this person allowed to moderate allegedly 200+ subreddits with behavior and abuse of power such as this?](https://www.reddit.com/r/ReportTheBadModerator/comments/apo3fr/umerari01_of_rinsanepeoplefacebook_rlifeprotips/)
Permabanned because a mod thinks I split hairs over a sensitive issuehttps://imgur.com/a/0ysYr61
I'm a staunch advocate for trans rights and I love having conversations about it with people. But when I see somebody make a weak argument in opposition to trans-haters, I speak up because I believe that the use of weak arguments (despite how good they can feel to read) just serves to weaken your platform as a whole.
This post is where I commented:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/11iruch/how_dare_you_quote_me_on_the_thing_that_i_said/
https://i.redd.it/vwukhydy9xla1.jpg
The comments were filled with people unilaterally claiming that Knowles' quote is "literally" calling for genocide. Even the Rolling Stone headline is claiming he said such a thing, though the article says below that it's the "ideology" of trans people that he thinks should be eradicated. I made a comment (that barely anyone even saw, mind you) enforcing my belief that the quote is awful enough on its own without us going and representing it as a literal call for genocide: https://imgur.com/a/0ysYr61
Calling for the eradication of an ideology/set of beliefs and values is simply not the same as calling for the eradication of a people. Is it a mean, nasty thing to do? Yeah, fucking obviously 100% yes. But there's a difference between that and claiming that we should "kill all _______". It's not the same, it's bad and reactionary to treat it as though it is.
I just don't believe that we can see a misrepresented quote like that and claim as though members of the "opposition" are LITERALLY, OUT LOUD, calling for the genocide of a people. Of course his quote is disgusting and it misunderstands the nature of transness altogether, but that doesn't mean we can represent his quote in the most violent and self-serving way possible.
Most frustratingly though is that I feel like I'm ON THEIR SIDE, but they've banned me as though I'm defending the guy making the quote. I'm not going to sit there and watch people I mostly agree with make arguments that I know the opposition is just going to pooh-pooh and roll their eyes at, then characterize us as overreactive and misrepresentitive.
I don't believe this is "splitting hairs" as the mod suggests. I think silencing people for being critical is idiotic, especially when their intentions are to strengthen their side's arguments.
But also, if I'm wrong in this belief and I'm actually saying dumb shit, FUCKING TELL ME INSTEAD OF JUST BANNING ME. Have a damn conversation.
Permabanned because a mod thinks I split hairs over a sensitive issuehttps://imgur.com/a/0ysYr61
I'm a staunch advocate for trans rights and I love having conversations about it with people. But when I see somebody make a weak argument in opposition to trans-haters, I speak up because I believe that the use of weak arguments (despite how good they can feel to read) just serves to weaken your platform as a whole.
This post is where I commented:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/11iruch/how_dare_you_quote_me_on_the_thing_that_i_said/
https://i.redd.it/vwukhydy9xla1.jpg
The comments were filled with people unilaterally claiming that Knowles' quote is "literally" calling for genocide. Even the Rolling Stone headline is claiming he said such a thing, though the article says below that it's the "ideology" of trans people that he thinks should be eradicated. I made a comment (that barely anyone even saw, mind you) enforcing my belief that the quote is awful enough on its own without us going and representing it as a literal call for genocide: https://imgur.com/a/0ysYr61
Calling for the eradication of an ideology/set of beliefs and values is simply not the same as calling for the eradication of a people. Is it a mean, nasty thing to do? Yeah, fucking obviously 100% yes. But there's a difference between that and claiming that we should "kill all _______". It's not the same, it's bad and reactionary to treat it as though it is.
I just don't believe that we can see a misrepresented quote like that and claim as though members of the "opposition" are LITERALLY, OUT LOUD, calling for the genocide of a people. Of course his quote is disgusting and it misunderstands the nature of transness altogether, but that doesn't mean we can represent his quote in the most violent and self-serving way possible.
Most frustratingly though is that I feel like I'm ON THEIR SIDE, but they've banned me as though I'm defending the guy making the quote. I'm not going to sit there and watch people I mostly agree with make arguments that I know the opposition is just going to pooh-pooh and roll their eyes at, then characterize us as overreactive and misrepresentitive.
I don't believe this is "splitting hairs" as the mod suggests. I think silencing people for being critical is idiotic, especially when their intentions are to strengthen their side's arguments.
But also, if I'm wrong in this belief and I'm actually saying dumb shit, FUCKING TELL ME INSTEAD OF JUST BANNING ME. Have a damn conversation.
Perma bannedI was perma banned and muted by r/EverythingScience for being “antivaxx” somehow, even though I’m vaccinated and have my booster
The thread was about the measles outbreak, I posted a reply that society isn’t to blame for conservatives not being vaccinated, then another “user” decided to say we should force ppl to get vaccinated and I said I didn’t agree that we should force ppl to do things
I would like to have my ban lifted because I’m being banned for a false/made up reason
If I was being banned for being an asshole that’s fine BUT I don’t like being banned for blatant BS
Thank you for your time
Perma bannedI was perma banned and muted by r/EverythingScience for being “antivaxx” somehow, even though I’m vaccinated and have my booster
The thread was about the measles outbreak, I posted a reply that society isn’t to blame for conservatives not being vaccinated, then another “user” decided to say we should force ppl to get vaccinated and I said I didn’t agree that we should force ppl to do things
I would like to have my ban lifted because I’m being banned for a false/made up reason
If I was being banned for being an asshole that’s fine BUT I don’t like being banned for blatant BS
Thank you for your time
r/Massachusetts mod straight up lied.Completely lied about their reason for banning me, then muted me for 28 days after I replied "why?" to the banning mail. Completely baffling.
r/Massachusetts mod straight up lied.Completely lied about their reason for banning me, then muted me for 28 days after I replied "why?" to the banning mail. Completely baffling.
Proposal for a "safe" appeal process.**I am seeking:** to have an appeal process: That is a 'safe' place in which to appeal a decision.
In one sub I have been posting we do not have such a place. In the real world, the law provides an appeal process. It is not necessary that an appeal be accepted - but to have a process, it must be "OK" for an appeal to be made.
As things are, it is not OK. Our moderation system works like a cop giving out a ticket. There is nothing at all wrong with giving out a ticket. But the ticket should say something - including the actual rule broken. And it should include a notice of what the appeal process is.
And it should be "safe" to engage in the appeal process. But as things are there is no "OK" to engage in appeals. The reason its not OK? Because the same person who made the decision is the one hearing it. And to him/her it just sounds like they are hearing a user "making more noise" challenging "their" ruling. That isn't safe. What is likely to happen is the moderator who is understandably annoyed is probably going to ban the user.
(I am a moderator as well as a user. I mention that though the sub I moderate rarely if ever has issues like this).
​
**What happened** in this other sub is just what I described. I was told that a post I made was "off topic." In reality, I showed that it wasn't, at least according to the description provided by the subreddit.
I appreciate the moderators time in hearing what I had to say. But arguing with a moderator is like arguing with a traffic cop. It just doesn't work. It can't work. The cop (or the moderator) is going to get annoyed and think "he's trying to debate me."
That simply isn't a safe appeal process.
​
**What happens next:** It winds up with an annoyed moderator and a annoyed user who at best experiences that they have been "shut down." And if they continue or say "I'm not debating" they probably wind up suspended.
Finally: **What we could do instead:** The process that is described right here in this sub is possibly a model for a reasonable process - that is for what to do. I'm going to insert a process idea that includes a "ticket:"
1) Instead of simply taking an action (like removing the users offensive or wrong input, create a ticket.
2) The ticket should refer directly to the ruling made by the moderator. The ticket could have a number on it so that it can be referred to.
3) The ticket should refer to the rule or rules broken by the user or reason the users input was disallowed.
4) However, the ticket should also refer to an appeal process that the user can participate in. The appeal process could result in an "appeal hearing" and date and time at which the user could make a request.
The point is that engaging in the appeal process is a "safe" action for the user to take. No one is hurt by it. And The user doesn't have to engage. But if they do there is no penalty for doing so.
This avoids the situation we have now where the user feels shut off and where they are very likely to be penalized if they continue to engage with the moderator at that point - just as a driver would be penalized if they argued with a traffic cop.
**Additional notes**: *First*, I did a cursory check of messages on the sub to see if someone had already proposed a solution like this - so if you know of one, please tell me. I'll communicate with the authors and maybe we can come up with a better idea than what I have here.
When I did this search what I found instead of a duplicate here - is a huge number of people with severe problems who could benefit from an appeal ticketing system.
*Second,* building an appeal ticketing system and process is not "free." It takes work. It would rely on a data store and some programming to set up ticketing and appeal scheduling. And it would also require people to be appeal judges. But it would take a lot of the burden off moderators.
*Third,* I have not checked with other social media systems (LinkedIn, FB, etc) to see if they already have similar systems. That is something we should investigate. If there is, possiby we could leverage a system that has already been created - but I also note that we Reddit have an incredible amount of talented programmers right here who could participate and contribute to this.
Thank you very much for reading this. If it makes sense to you - great. If not, thanks for reading it anyway.
​
All the best,
​
Rich
Proposal for a "safe" appeal process.**I am seeking:** to have an appeal process: That is a 'safe' place in which to appeal a decision.
In one sub I have been posting we do not have such a place. In the real world, the law provides an appeal process. It is not necessary that an appeal be accepted - but to have a process, it must be "OK" for an appeal to be made.
As things are, it is not OK. Our moderation system works like a cop giving out a ticket. There is nothing at all wrong with giving out a ticket. But the ticket should say something - including the actual rule broken. And it should include a notice of what the appeal process is.
And it should be "safe" to engage in the appeal process. But as things are there is no "OK" to engage in appeals. The reason its not OK? Because the same person who made the decision is the one hearing it. And to him/her it just sounds like they are hearing a user "making more noise" challenging "their" ruling. That isn't safe. What is likely to happen is the moderator who is understandably annoyed is probably going to ban the user.
(I am a moderator as well as a user. I mention that though the sub I moderate rarely if ever has issues like this).
​
**What happened** in this other sub is just what I described. I was told that a post I made was "off topic." In reality, I showed that it wasn't, at least according to the description provided by the subreddit.
I appreciate the moderators time in hearing what I had to say. But arguing with a moderator is like arguing with a traffic cop. It just doesn't work. It can't work. The cop (or the moderator) is going to get annoyed and think "he's trying to debate me."
That simply isn't a safe appeal process.
​
**What happens next:** It winds up with an annoyed moderator and a annoyed user who at best experiences that they have been "shut down." And if they continue or say "I'm not debating" they probably wind up suspended.
Finally: **What we could do instead:** The process that is described right here in this sub is possibly a model for a reasonable process - that is for what to do. I'm going to insert a process idea that includes a "ticket:"
1) Instead of simply taking an action (like removing the users offensive or wrong input, create a ticket.
2) The ticket should refer directly to the ruling made by the moderator. The ticket could have a number on it so that it can be referred to.
3) The ticket should refer to the rule or rules broken by the user or reason the users input was disallowed.
4) However, the ticket should also refer to an appeal process that the user can participate in. The appeal process could result in an "appeal hearing" and date and time at which the user could make a request.
The point is that engaging in the appeal process is a "safe" action for the user to take. No one is hurt by it. And The user doesn't have to engage. But if they do there is no penalty for doing so.
This avoids the situation we have now where the user feels shut off and where they are very likely to be penalized if they continue to engage with the moderator at that point - just as a driver would be penalized if they argued with a traffic cop.
**Additional notes**: *First*, I did a cursory check of messages on the sub to see if someone had already proposed a solution like this - so if you know of one, please tell me. I'll communicate with the authors and maybe we can come up with a better idea than what I have here.
When I did this search what I found instead of a duplicate here - is a huge number of people with severe problems who could benefit from an appeal ticketing system.
*Second,* building an appeal ticketing system and process is not "free." It takes work. It would rely on a data store and some programming to set up ticketing and appeal scheduling. And it would also require people to be appeal judges. But it would take a lot of the burden off moderators.
*Third,* I have not checked with other social media systems (LinkedIn, FB, etc) to see if they already have similar systems. That is something we should investigate. If there is, possiby we could leverage a system that has already been created - but I also note that we Reddit have an incredible amount of talented programmers right here who could participate and contribute to this.
Thank you very much for reading this. If it makes sense to you - great. If not, thanks for reading it anyway.
​
All the best,
​
Rich
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Perma banned and muted instantly whenever i try appeal.I am seeking: Them to unban me or at least hear me out without muting me. Or if neither of them can happen, some advice on how to talk to them so they hear me out.
What happened: I got banned on r/gaming in october because apparently my account was flagged for ban evasion. Now i was extremely confused as ive never done this before so i messaged them saying that and i got instantly muted. (Just for some context btw, i was temp banned a few times before for breaking rules like 'prompts must be in text format' but i have always admitted i should have read all the rules.)
Now im not even sure my account was flagged for ban evasion as i havent heard anything about that form anyone apart from them. No message from reddit or anything shown to me, and no other moderators have mentioned it. All i can see is that the post i tried to make before i got banned was removed because some tool thought it was spam. Even if they are telling the truth about the ban evasion thing which they most likely are as idk why they would lie, i spoke to support and they told me it is a tool in beta that doesnt neccesarily mean i have ban evaded, but even if it was a mistake to mark my account as it, they cant do anything. Now when my mute was lifted after a month, i tried explaining that to them in a very polite way but got instantly muted again. I then waited out the mute again and explained why i feel i should be unbanned, and this time i actually got a response. They said 'get reddit to confirm you didnt evade your ban and we will see' then they instantly muted me.
After they said that, i messaged reddit support multiple times asking them for help but all i got were bot responses saying 'we cant change it and we cant unban you as its up to the moderators' i understood that but asked them to just confirm to the mods i didnt ban evade but i had no response.
When the month was up, i told them this and explained i have tried everything i could but they wont respond, and explained why i should be unbanned. They then responded just by saying 'we dont want you in our sub' and muted me again.
I honestly dont know what to do. I cant just 'find another sub' as its the biggest and im sure only sub where you can just talk about all things gaming. I just want to share a community with people about something i love and am passionate about. Ive tried explaining all of this but they dont listen. Its not like ive been rude or anything too, i know thats going to get me nowhere so i have been as polite as possible but nothing works.
[Here is the link to the modmail messages](https://imgur.com/a/8gKrHWH)
Perma banned and muted instantly whenever i try appeal.I am seeking: Them to unban me or at least hear me out without muting me. Or if neither of them can happen, some advice on how to talk to them so they hear me out.
What happened: I got banned on r/gaming in october because apparently my account was flagged for ban evasion. Now i was extremely confused as ive never done this before so i messaged them saying that and i got instantly muted. (Just for some context btw, i was temp banned a few times before for breaking rules like 'prompts must be in text format' but i have always admitted i should have read all the rules.)
Now im not even sure my account was flagged for ban evasion as i havent heard anything about that form anyone apart from them. No message from reddit or anything shown to me, and no other moderators have mentioned it. All i can see is that the post i tried to make before i got banned was removed because some tool thought it was spam. Even if they are telling the truth about the ban evasion thing which they most likely are as idk why they would lie, i spoke to support and they told me it is a tool in beta that doesnt neccesarily mean i have ban evaded, but even if it was a mistake to mark my account as it, they cant do anything. Now when my mute was lifted after a month, i tried explaining that to them in a very polite way but got instantly muted again. I then waited out the mute again and explained why i feel i should be unbanned, and this time i actually got a response. They said 'get reddit to confirm you didnt evade your ban and we will see' then they instantly muted me.
After they said that, i messaged reddit support multiple times asking them for help but all i got were bot responses saying 'we cant change it and we cant unban you as its up to the moderators' i understood that but asked them to just confirm to the mods i didnt ban evade but i had no response.
When the month was up, i told them this and explained i have tried everything i could but they wont respond, and explained why i should be unbanned. They then responded just by saying 'we dont want you in our sub' and muted me again.
I honestly dont know what to do. I cant just 'find another sub' as its the biggest and im sure only sub where you can just talk about all things gaming. I just want to share a community with people about something i love and am passionate about. Ive tried explaining all of this but they dont listen. Its not like ive been rude or anything too, i know thats going to get me nowhere so i have been as polite as possible but nothing works.
[Here is the link to the modmail messages](https://imgur.com/a/8gKrHWH)
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Independent record shop instantly banned within a week at r/vinylreleases**I am seeking:** To not be permabanned from the subreddit r/VinylReleases to also understand what rules were broken by us AND what rules were broken by previous users not related to our internal team here at the shop.
**What happened:** We are an independent record shop in Indianapolis, Indiana. We have been told by our customers to use reddit to help spread the word.
the subreddit r/VinylReleases was recommended to us as a community to participate in. So this week we created the account shopLUNAmusic. We read the rules and posted a comment to a link to purchase a record from a local brick and mortar store. It was upvoted and people commented vouching for our reputation!
Today we commented to someone asking if they could get a record bubble wrapped and were permabanned immediately after posting and the reasoning given was:
>Note from the moderators:
>
>Luna music has been previously perma banned for not following rules. this includes all associated accounts.
The thing is that we have just created our first account. We are aware that customers have posted our links online as we can see the google analyics data traffic, but they aren't part of our internal team. Anyone can post a link from our site, we are a web-shop!
We also were not aware that did not know someones account was banned for posting our website content, we did search our URL for the offending posts but either they were taken down or there isn't a clear indication of how those accounts got banned.
We responded to the moderation team for clarification of the ban and what rules were broken but havent received word.
The reason why this is shocking to us is because we received no warning, just a permaban instantly, literally a week within creating our account.
We want to participate in the community and help offer records that are increasingly harder to find. Reddit seems like a good place to do that but if moderators do not want to see our independent shop then I guess we will just focus our efforts elsewhere. Its a shame because we were excited to engage with our customers on the site and help out.
***We would love to just know what rules were broken by us (or even the other accounts so we dont do that in the future) and how we can be unbanned and participate within the rules.***
We want to have a good experience here and help be a part of helping people get the records they want. Just like we do every day in our shop. We don't want to spam and we don't want to try and take over the subreddit with our links or anything, but if people are looking for local options, fast shipping and good customer service alternative to big box retailers like amazon, we want people to know.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. We also would love to understand the moderations team side of this, if smaller independent retailers aren't allowed to post links on the subreddit then we think it should be in place for all the other shops that are posted there, rough trade, bullmoose, etc.
Sorry if any of this appears emotionally charged, we are shocked but we just want answers and help. Thank you for taking the time to read this!
Independent record shop instantly banned within a week at r/vinylreleases**I am seeking:** To not be permabanned from the subreddit r/VinylReleases to also understand what rules were broken by us AND what rules were broken by previous users not related to our internal team here at the shop.
**What happened:** We are an independent record shop in Indianapolis, Indiana. We have been told by our customers to use reddit to help spread the word.
the subreddit r/VinylReleases was recommended to us as a community to participate in. So this week we created the account shopLUNAmusic. We read the rules and posted a comment to a link to purchase a record from a local brick and mortar store. It was upvoted and people commented vouching for our reputation!
Today we commented to someone asking if they could get a record bubble wrapped and were permabanned immediately after posting and the reasoning given was:
>Note from the moderators:
>
>Luna music has been previously perma banned for not following rules. this includes all associated accounts.
The thing is that we have just created our first account. We are aware that customers have posted our links online as we can see the google analyics data traffic, but they aren't part of our internal team. Anyone can post a link from our site, we are a web-shop!
We also were not aware that did not know someones account was banned for posting our website content, we did search our URL for the offending posts but either they were taken down or there isn't a clear indication of how those accounts got banned.
We responded to the moderation team for clarification of the ban and what rules were broken but havent received word.
The reason why this is shocking to us is because we received no warning, just a permaban instantly, literally a week within creating our account.
We want to participate in the community and help offer records that are increasingly harder to find. Reddit seems like a good place to do that but if moderators do not want to see our independent shop then I guess we will just focus our efforts elsewhere. Its a shame because we were excited to engage with our customers on the site and help out.
***We would love to just know what rules were broken by us (or even the other accounts so we dont do that in the future) and how we can be unbanned and participate within the rules.***
We want to have a good experience here and help be a part of helping people get the records they want. Just like we do every day in our shop. We don't want to spam and we don't want to try and take over the subreddit with our links or anything, but if people are looking for local options, fast shipping and good customer service alternative to big box retailers like amazon, we want people to know.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. We also would love to understand the moderations team side of this, if smaller independent retailers aren't allowed to post links on the subreddit then we think it should be in place for all the other shops that are posted there, rough trade, bullmoose, etc.
Sorry if any of this appears emotionally charged, we are shocked but we just want answers and help. Thank you for taking the time to read this!
I can't find it right now, but there was a post on r/subredditdrama linking to the Oregon secession post, for more context. It is likely commenting in the r/libertarian thread past a certain point in time, or having a certain opinion on that post was enough to bother a mod.
edit: found it https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/116tzdx/oregon_counties_want_to_secede_to_idaho/
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Permabanned because I weird out the mod?[Mod Message](https://imgur.com/a/7GizEZ1)
Seeking: to be unbanned IF I'm not in the wrong and/or clarification for my ban.
I posted in one of my local r4r-type subreddits when I was hit by a permaban without warning. The message said "every part" I made was weird, so I was quite surprised and a little confused because I wasn't sure what I did that violated the rules.
I asked for clarification (hopefully, I didn't come off as being rude) and he corrected his typo, but the only specification was that I "weirded him out". He promptly blocked me, preventing further communication.
Is this uncalled for, or is this ban enforceable? I understand that being a NSFW account invites a certain amount of suspicion, but I didn't think I was being weirder than anyone else on the sub.
I'll contest it if it's not too hard, but I don't mind if I can't use the sub anymore.
Permabanned because I weird out the mod?[Mod Message](https://imgur.com/a/7GizEZ1)
Seeking: to be unbanned IF I'm not in the wrong and/or clarification for my ban.
I posted in one of my local r4r-type subreddits when I was hit by a permaban without warning. The message said "every part" I made was weird, so I was quite surprised and a little confused because I wasn't sure what I did that violated the rules.
I asked for clarification (hopefully, I didn't come off as being rude) and he corrected his typo, but the only specification was that I "weirded him out". He promptly blocked me, preventing further communication.
Is this uncalled for, or is this ban enforceable? I understand that being a NSFW account invites a certain amount of suspicion, but I didn't think I was being weirder than anyone else on the sub.
I'll contest it if it's not too hard, but I don't mind if I can't use the sub anymore.
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Permanent ban with no explanation, muted for trying to understandI was permanently banned from participating on r/news about 197 days ago. I am unsure why, but the ban message said I should reply if I have any questions. However, question was left unanswered and I was muted.
I’m assuming that asking why you’re banned is probably something mods don’t want to answer in fear of it would lead to a back and forth argument. Which I understand.
So since then I’ve also been using Reddit more passively since I didn’t fully understand what I did wrong and didn’t really want to offend anyone. Today I asked again why I was banned so that I could be a better person, but the reply told me to look at my comment and let them know how I’m trying to be a better person and then muted me again without giving me a chance to answer. (I can attach a screenshot, but for some reason it’s not letting me do it now, I’m guessing this post needs to be vetted before being released and then I can add an image?)
I think my lack of activity should show that my behavior changed since the ban as a whole. Also other subs have different policies and I abide by the rules and haven’t been banned anywhere; hence why activity on other subs shouldn’t be a reason to ban someone on another unrelated sub.
Either ways I’m just trying to understand what I did that got me permanently banned without a warning or temporary ban. I usually not vulgar or hateful, so I’m a bit lost Maybe this sub can help me understand the situation, since the r/news mods are muting any opportunities for me to better myself.
Whilst I’d like to be unbanned eventually if my actions didn’t break their rules; I’d also be fine with it if I knew why a permanent ban was issued. Thanks in advance
Permanent ban with no explanation, muted for trying to understandI was permanently banned from participating on r/news about 197 days ago. I am unsure why, but the ban message said I should reply if I have any questions. However, question was left unanswered and I was muted.
I’m assuming that asking why you’re banned is probably something mods don’t want to answer in fear of it would lead to a back and forth argument. Which I understand.
So since then I’ve also been using Reddit more passively since I didn’t fully understand what I did wrong and didn’t really want to offend anyone. Today I asked again why I was banned so that I could be a better person, but the reply told me to look at my comment and let them know how I’m trying to be a better person and then muted me again without giving me a chance to answer. (I can attach a screenshot, but for some reason it’s not letting me do it now, I’m guessing this post needs to be vetted before being released and then I can add an image?)
I think my lack of activity should show that my behavior changed since the ban as a whole. Also other subs have different policies and I abide by the rules and haven’t been banned anywhere; hence why activity on other subs shouldn’t be a reason to ban someone on another unrelated sub.
Either ways I’m just trying to understand what I did that got me permanently banned without a warning or temporary ban. I usually not vulgar or hateful, so I’m a bit lost Maybe this sub can help me understand the situation, since the r/news mods are muting any opportunities for me to better myself.
Whilst I’d like to be unbanned eventually if my actions didn’t break their rules; I’d also be fine with it if I knew why a permanent ban was issued. Thanks in advance
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Temporarily banned for "read rule 3" then insulted, permabanned, and muted for 28 days for "read rule 3" after appealing the temp banTemporarily banned for "read rule 3" then insulted, permabanned, and muted for 28 days for "read rule 3" after appealing the temp ban
I am seeking: to be unbanned, unmuted, and the unnamed mod removed, optionally the post restored (a basic civil apology would be nice too but it's unnecessary)
What happened: I made a post with the following title in r/todayilearned
>TIL when David Gilmour was having trouble helping an equally frustrated Syd Barrett learn a guitar solo, Gilmour recorded the solo himself and then played it back to Barrett in reverse. Upon hearing the reversed playback Barret was instantly able to play the solo forwards
posted with the following YouTube link with appropriate timestamp as required by the rules:
[https://youtu.be/eRormHnvfus?t=595](https://youtu.be/eRormHnvfus?t=595)
Soon after I received an [automod message](https://freeimage.host/i/HGs2ue9) stating that my post had been removed and that I had been temporarily banned from the sub with the following note from the moderator:
>"Read rule 3"
Rule 3 states:
>Rule #3: No news or recent sources.
>Rationale for no news: Any recent events are news to everybody hence they're "Today I Learned..." material in the truest sense. Unfortunately, people catch up on recent events at different paces so someone living under a rock may learn of an event a few days or a week after it occurred and then head over to TIL to repost it. However, most everyone else has already seen it so they're faced with a repost. If it's news of a particularly contentious issue, then it'll just bring on a repeat of the flamewars. Furthermore, TIL would become a dumping ground for ALL information -- /r/technology wouldn't be getting posts about some new gizmo, /r/music wouldn't hear about the new albums, /r/gaming wouldn't be getting posts about the newly released games, etc... The rule helps to reduce redundancy among TIL and other subreddits.
>Rationale for no recent sources: This rule is meant to cover posts that link to information that was just recently created about events that have occurred some time in the past. The reasoning is that newly created information hasn't been properly "vetted" by domain experts. As a result, the information may not be factual. A two month period is an appropriate amount of time for a contrary viewpoint to emerge and point out any factual inconsistencies in the source.
>This rule does NOT mean that posts that contain links to news articles over 2 months old are not allowed.
>News articles which are over 2 months old may be removed if they describe an on-going event or the title is being used to describe current events
Even though the YouTube video itself was uploaded to YouTube on January 27, 2023 which on the surface would be in violation of Rule #3, if this were newly created content, but it is not.
This video is merely an excerpt from the documentary "The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story" that originally aired on the BBC in 2001. The DVD has been widely available since 2003. The original creator of the documentary has since been uploading unaltered segments of the documentary to his YouTube channel, and that is where this links to.
When I explained this to the mod I received the following reply:
>["Your submission content is dated January 2023, ergo it breaks rule 3.
You could write an essay about world war 2 tomorrow, does that mean it's dated 1939-45"](https://freeimage.host/i/HGs3bFR)
I attempted to explain why this is not a rule 3 violation because it is not newly created information and that this is not an instance of creating new content about old topics, that this is an excerpt from a widely available 2001 documentary with an interview from 2001 discussing events that occurred in 1970 as noted in the beginning of the video and the video's description on YouTube
Then I received the following 3 messages:
>["Bye Karen"](https://freeimage.host/i/HGsFo9S)
Followed by
>[You have been [temporarily muted](https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/reddit-101/moderators/modmail-muting) from r/todayilearned. You will not be able to message the moderators of r/todayilearned for 28 days.](https://freeimage.host/i/HGsKl1f)
Followed by
>[You have been permanently banned from participating in r/todayilearned. You can still view and subscribe to r/todayilearned, but you won't be able to post or comment.
>Note from the moderators:
> Read rule 3
](https://freeimage.host/i/HGsKSkB)
>If you have a question regarding your ban, you can contact the moderator team for r/todayilearned by replying to this message.
At no point was I discourteous or disrespectful, I laid out my argument as clearly and concisely as I could.
I apologize for how lengthy this is, but I just wanted to be as thorough as possible.
I have read rule 3, it is not clear whether or not the mod has.
Temporarily banned for "read rule 3" then insulted, permabanned, and muted for 28 days for "read rule 3" after appealing the temp banTemporarily banned for "read rule 3" then insulted, permabanned, and muted for 28 days for "read rule 3" after appealing the temp ban
I am seeking: to be unbanned, unmuted, and the unnamed mod removed, optionally the post restored (a basic civil apology would be nice too but it's unnecessary)
What happened: I made a post with the following title in r/todayilearned
>TIL when David Gilmour was having trouble helping an equally frustrated Syd Barrett learn a guitar solo, Gilmour recorded the solo himself and then played it back to Barrett in reverse. Upon hearing the reversed playback Barret was instantly able to play the solo forwards
posted with the following YouTube link with appropriate timestamp as required by the rules:
[https://youtu.be/eRormHnvfus?t=595](https://youtu.be/eRormHnvfus?t=595)
Soon after I received an [automod message](https://freeimage.host/i/HGs2ue9) stating that my post had been removed and that I had been temporarily banned from the sub with the following note from the moderator:
>"Read rule 3"
Rule 3 states:
>Rule #3: No news or recent sources.
>Rationale for no news: Any recent events are news to everybody hence they're "Today I Learned..." material in the truest sense. Unfortunately, people catch up on recent events at different paces so someone living under a rock may learn of an event a few days or a week after it occurred and then head over to TIL to repost it. However, most everyone else has already seen it so they're faced with a repost. If it's news of a particularly contentious issue, then it'll just bring on a repeat of the flamewars. Furthermore, TIL would become a dumping ground for ALL information -- /r/technology wouldn't be getting posts about some new gizmo, /r/music wouldn't hear about the new albums, /r/gaming wouldn't be getting posts about the newly released games, etc... The rule helps to reduce redundancy among TIL and other subreddits.
>Rationale for no recent sources: This rule is meant to cover posts that link to information that was just recently created about events that have occurred some time in the past. The reasoning is that newly created information hasn't been properly "vetted" by domain experts. As a result, the information may not be factual. A two month period is an appropriate amount of time for a contrary viewpoint to emerge and point out any factual inconsistencies in the source.
>This rule does NOT mean that posts that contain links to news articles over 2 months old are not allowed.
>News articles which are over 2 months old may be removed if they describe an on-going event or the title is being used to describe current events
Even though the YouTube video itself was uploaded to YouTube on January 27, 2023 which on the surface would be in violation of Rule #3, if this were newly created content, but it is not.
This video is merely an excerpt from the documentary "The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story" that originally aired on the BBC in 2001. The DVD has been widely available since 2003. The original creator of the documentary has since been uploading unaltered segments of the documentary to his YouTube channel, and that is where this links to.
When I explained this to the mod I received the following reply:
>["Your submission content is dated January 2023, ergo it breaks rule 3.
You could write an essay about world war 2 tomorrow, does that mean it's dated 1939-45"](https://freeimage.host/i/HGs3bFR)
I attempted to explain why this is not a rule 3 violation because it is not newly created information and that this is not an instance of creating new content about old topics, that this is an excerpt from a widely available 2001 documentary with an interview from 2001 discussing events that occurred in 1970 as noted in the beginning of the video and the video's description on YouTube
Then I received the following 3 messages:
>["Bye Karen"](https://freeimage.host/i/HGsFo9S)
Followed by
>[You have been [temporarily muted](https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/reddit-101/moderators/modmail-muting) from r/todayilearned. You will not be able to message the moderators of r/todayilearned for 28 days.](https://freeimage.host/i/HGsKl1f)
Followed by
>[You have been permanently banned from participating in r/todayilearned. You can still view and subscribe to r/todayilearned, but you won't be able to post or comment.
>Note from the moderators:
> Read rule 3
](https://freeimage.host/i/HGsKSkB)
>If you have a question regarding your ban, you can contact the moderator team for r/todayilearned by replying to this message.
At no point was I discourteous or disrespectful, I laid out my argument as clearly and concisely as I could.
I apologize for how lengthy this is, but I just wanted to be as thorough as possible.
I have read rule 3, it is not clear whether or not the mod has.
Permabanned with no explanation**I am seeking:** To understand why was I permabanned without an explanation and depending on the answer maybe unbanned.
**What happened:** The sub is being spammed with karma farmers of trans rights memes.
Everyone is tired saying the sub is being raided by anime circle jerk users and the mods don't help...
When I [questioned](https://www.unddit.com/r/animememes/comments/11djjlb/listen_to_zero_two/ja9obyk/?context=3) the op about the spam of memes, I got a question instead of answer then I asked the op to use an answer and not a question and got the exact same reply, I got permabanned right away just like that...
I [messaged](https://imgur.com/a/SbCXoUO) the mods asking why was I permabanned and so far got no answer...
Permabanned with no explanation**I am seeking:** To understand why was I permabanned without an explanation and depending on the answer maybe unbanned.
**What happened:** The sub is being spammed with karma farmers of trans rights memes.
Everyone is tired saying the sub is being raided by anime circle jerk users and the mods don't help...
When I [questioned](https://www.unddit.com/r/animememes/comments/11djjlb/listen_to_zero_two/ja9obyk/?context=3) the op about the spam of memes, I got a question instead of answer then I asked the op to use an answer and not a question and got the exact same reply, I got permabanned right away just like that...
I [messaged](https://imgur.com/a/SbCXoUO) the mods asking why was I permabanned and so far got no answer...
Banned for not being a content creator when this account exists only to promote my content/r/creatorsadvice is a subreddit for adult content creators to discuss issues affecting them, and is exclusive for content creators.
"This community is for active NSFW creators only. If you are not a NSFW creator in front of the camera, please don't post or comment here. There are no exceptions, please respect that. This will result in instant ban."
I was banned for the below post even though the post says that I have a (onlyfans) "page."
"as a customer I hate seeing SFS etc, because if the person being suggested doesn't fit my tastes then it's a waste of time and a turn off. Therefore I don't do it on my page"
This is bizarre to me because whilst I state "as a customer" I also say that I have a page. And clearly people that create adult content can still consume, purchase adult content etc.
I was explaining that my preferences as a customer influence the type of content I allow on my page. SFS refers to advertising another creator on your page and vice versa.
I messaged the mods because clearly there had been a misunderstanding or misreading of my original comment.
"You banned me even though I'm a creator - have a look at my profile or my OF URL or my PH URL"
The mod replied:
"Hard to tell considering the content includes multiple people, captions written in third person and you wrote a comment 'as a customer'
Which is true - my content does involve multiple people. But every clip I post on reddit features myself with various co-performers.
I did write "as a customer", but the mods ignored "therefore I don't do it on my page"
I attempted to explain and sent additional proof screenshot, but no reply.
I would like to be unbanned because a) it is an obvious mistake. b) I think I have a lot to contribute.
Banned for not being a content creator when this account exists only to promote my content/r/creatorsadvice is a subreddit for adult content creators to discuss issues affecting them, and is exclusive for content creators.
"This community is for active NSFW creators only. If you are not a NSFW creator in front of the camera, please don't post or comment here. There are no exceptions, please respect that. This will result in instant ban."
I was banned for the below post even though the post says that I have a (onlyfans) "page."
"as a customer I hate seeing SFS etc, because if the person being suggested doesn't fit my tastes then it's a waste of time and a turn off. Therefore I don't do it on my page"
This is bizarre to me because whilst I state "as a customer" I also say that I have a page. And clearly people that create adult content can still consume, purchase adult content etc.
I was explaining that my preferences as a customer influence the type of content I allow on my page. SFS refers to advertising another creator on your page and vice versa.
I messaged the mods because clearly there had been a misunderstanding or misreading of my original comment.
"You banned me even though I'm a creator - have a look at my profile or my OF URL or my PH URL"
The mod replied:
"Hard to tell considering the content includes multiple people, captions written in third person and you wrote a comment 'as a customer'
Which is true - my content does involve multiple people. But every clip I post on reddit features myself with various co-performers.
I did write "as a customer", but the mods ignored "therefore I don't do it on my page"
I attempted to explain and sent additional proof screenshot, but no reply.
I would like to be unbanned because a) it is an obvious mistake. b) I think I have a lot to contribute.
Banned for stating a neutral positionI was banned from r/worldnews for defending position of India on the Russia Ukraine war and did not use any derogatory or insulting comments.
The mods did not gave me any valid reason, just posted a message called as troll and did not reply back.
I was perma banned without any justification or rule violation information and 21 of my last 25 comments on that sub without any reason were deleted
I had been an active member on that and many other subs, but respectfully debating an opinion should not get you banned on large and mainstream subs
Banned for stating a neutral positionI was banned from r/worldnews for defending position of India on the Russia Ukraine war and did not use any derogatory or insulting comments.
The mods did not gave me any valid reason, just posted a message called as troll and did not reply back.
I was perma banned without any justification or rule violation information and 21 of my last 25 comments on that sub without any reason were deleted
I had been an active member on that and many other subs, but respectfully debating an opinion should not get you banned on large and mainstream subs
Perma banned and muted instantly whenever i try appeal.I am seeking: Them to unban me or at least hear me out without muting me. Or if neither of them can happen, some advice on how to talk to them so they hear me out.
What happened: I got banned on r/gaming in october because apparently my account was flagged for ban evasion. Now i was extremely confused as ive never done this before so i messaged them saying that and i got instantly muted. (Just for some context btw, i was temp banned a few times before for breaking rules like 'prompts must be in text format' but i have always admitted i should have read all the rules.)
Now im not even sure my account was flagged for ban evasion as i havent heard anything about that form anyone apart from them. No message from reddit or anything shown to me, and no other moderators have mentioned it. All i can see is that the post i tried to make before i got banned was removed because some tool thought it was spam. Even if they are telling the truth about the ban evasion thing which they most likely are as idk why they would lie, i spoke to support and they told me it is a tool in beta that doesnt neccesarily mean i have ban evaded, but even if it was a mistake to mark my account as it, they cant do anything. Now when my mute was lifted after a month, i tried explaining that to them in a very polite way but got instantly muted again. I then waited out the mute again and explained why i feel i should be unbanned, and this time i actually got a response. They said 'get reddit to confirm you didnt evade your ban and we will see' then they instantly muted me.
After they said that, i messaged reddit support multiple times asking them for help but all i got were bot responses saying 'we cant change it and we cant unban you as its up to the moderators' i understood that but asked them to just confirm to the mods i didnt ban evade but i had no response.
When the month was up, i told them this and explained i have tried everything i could but they wont respond, and explained why i should be unbanned. They then responded just by saying 'we dont want you in our sub' and muted me again.
I honestly dont know what to do. I cant just 'find another sub' as its the biggest and im sure only sub where you can just talk about all things gaming. I just want to share a community with people about something i love and am passionate about. Ive tried explaining all of this but they dont listen. Its not like ive been rude or anything too, i know thats going to get me nowhere so i have been as polite as possible but nothing works.
[Here is the link to the modmail messages](https://imgur.com/a/8gKrHWH)
Perma banned and muted instantly whenever i try appeal.I am seeking: Them to unban me or at least hear me out without muting me. Or if neither of them can happen, some advice on how to talk to them so they hear me out.
What happened: I got banned on r/gaming in october because apparently my account was flagged for ban evasion. Now i was extremely confused as ive never done this before so i messaged them saying that and i got instantly muted. (Just for some context btw, i was temp banned a few times before for breaking rules like 'prompts must be in text format' but i have always admitted i should have read all the rules.)
Now im not even sure my account was flagged for ban evasion as i havent heard anything about that form anyone apart from them. No message from reddit or anything shown to me, and no other moderators have mentioned it. All i can see is that the post i tried to make before i got banned was removed because some tool thought it was spam. Even if they are telling the truth about the ban evasion thing which they most likely are as idk why they would lie, i spoke to support and they told me it is a tool in beta that doesnt neccesarily mean i have ban evaded, but even if it was a mistake to mark my account as it, they cant do anything. Now when my mute was lifted after a month, i tried explaining that to them in a very polite way but got instantly muted again. I then waited out the mute again and explained why i feel i should be unbanned, and this time i actually got a response. They said 'get reddit to confirm you didnt evade your ban and we will see' then they instantly muted me.
After they said that, i messaged reddit support multiple times asking them for help but all i got were bot responses saying 'we cant change it and we cant unban you as its up to the moderators' i understood that but asked them to just confirm to the mods i didnt ban evade but i had no response.
When the month was up, i told them this and explained i have tried everything i could but they wont respond, and explained why i should be unbanned. They then responded just by saying 'we dont want you in our sub' and muted me again.
I honestly dont know what to do. I cant just 'find another sub' as its the biggest and im sure only sub where you can just talk about all things gaming. I just want to share a community with people about something i love and am passionate about. Ive tried explaining all of this but they dont listen. Its not like ive been rude or anything too, i know thats going to get me nowhere so i have been as polite as possible but nothing works.
[Here is the link to the modmail messages](https://imgur.com/a/8gKrHWH)
Permabanned, no reason given, no reply from the mods, muted for 28 daysI was permabanned from r/news, afaik none of my comments broke the rules, and all of my comments that day received between 50 and 300 upvotes which indicates I wasn’t saying stuff that everyone disagreed with. They clearly didn’t ban for a specific comment as none was linked in my ban message, I asked the mods what comment I was banned for and was ignored, the ban message didn’t have any custom text at all, just the standard message. When I chased it up again today, I was muted from modmail for 28 days still without a single reply from the mods telling me why I was banned. I want to be unbanned as this is a totally unacceptable way for the modteam of a sub so big to behave and just seems unfair and biased.
[Link](https://imgur.com/gallery/w0ajFh5)to my message showing them not telling me why I was banned despite asking nicely twice, then being muted still without even a hint as to why im banned and why it’s permanent.
Permabanned, no reason given, no reply from the mods, muted for 28 daysI was permabanned from r/news, afaik none of my comments broke the rules, and all of my comments that day received between 50 and 300 upvotes which indicates I wasn’t saying stuff that everyone disagreed with. They clearly didn’t ban for a specific comment as none was linked in my ban message, I asked the mods what comment I was banned for and was ignored, the ban message didn’t have any custom text at all, just the standard message. When I chased it up again today, I was muted from modmail for 28 days still without a single reply from the mods telling me why I was banned. I want to be unbanned as this is a totally unacceptable way for the modteam of a sub so big to behave and just seems unfair and biased.
[Link](https://imgur.com/gallery/w0ajFh5)to my message showing them not telling me why I was banned despite asking nicely twice, then being muted still without even a hint as to why im banned and why it’s permanent.
Independent record shop instantly banned within a week at r/vinylreleases**I am seeking:** To not be permabanned from the subreddit r/VinylReleases to also understand what rules were broken by us AND what rules were broken by previous users not related to our internal team here at the shop.
**What happened:** We are an independent record shop in Indianapolis, Indiana. We have been told by our customers to use reddit to help spread the word.
the subreddit r/VinylReleases was recommended to us as a community to participate in. So this week we created the account shopLUNAmusic. We read the rules and posted a comment to a link to purchase a record from a local brick and mortar store. It was upvoted and people commented vouching for our reputation!
Today we commented to someone asking if they could get a record bubble wrapped and were permabanned immediately after posting and the reasoning given was:
>Note from the moderators:
>
>Luna music has been previously perma banned for not following rules. this includes all associated accounts.
The thing is that we have just created our first account. We are aware that customers have posted our links online as we can see the google analyics data traffic, but they aren't part of our internal team. Anyone can post a link from our site, we are a web-shop!
We also were not aware that did not know someones account was banned for posting our website content, we did search our URL for the offending posts but either they were taken down or there isn't a clear indication of how those accounts got banned.
We responded to the moderation team for clarification of the ban and what rules were broken but havent received word.
The reason why this is shocking to us is because we received no warning, just a permaban instantly, literally a week within creating our account.
We want to participate in the community and help offer records that are increasingly harder to find. Reddit seems like a good place to do that but if moderators do not want to see our independent shop then I guess we will just focus our efforts elsewhere. Its a shame because we were excited to engage with our customers on the site and help out.
***We would love to just know what rules were broken by us (or even the other accounts so we dont do that in the future) and how we can be unbanned and participate within the rules.***
We want to have a good experience here and help be a part of helping people get the records they want. Just like we do every day in our shop. We don't want to spam and we don't want to try and take over the subreddit with our links or anything, but if people are looking for local options, fast shipping and good customer service alternative to big box retailers like amazon, we want people to know.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. We also would love to understand the moderations team side of this, if smaller independent retailers aren't allowed to post links on the subreddit then we think it should be in place for all the other shops that are posted there, rough trade, bullmoose, etc.
Sorry if any of this appears emotionally charged, we are shocked but we just want answers and help. Thank you for taking the time to read this!
Independent record shop instantly banned within a week at r/vinylreleases**I am seeking:** To not be permabanned from the subreddit r/VinylReleases to also understand what rules were broken by us AND what rules were broken by previous users not related to our internal team here at the shop.
**What happened:** We are an independent record shop in Indianapolis, Indiana. We have been told by our customers to use reddit to help spread the word.
the subreddit r/VinylReleases was recommended to us as a community to participate in. So this week we created the account shopLUNAmusic. We read the rules and posted a comment to a link to purchase a record from a local brick and mortar store. It was upvoted and people commented vouching for our reputation!
Today we commented to someone asking if they could get a record bubble wrapped and were permabanned immediately after posting and the reasoning given was:
>Note from the moderators:
>
>Luna music has been previously perma banned for not following rules. this includes all associated accounts.
The thing is that we have just created our first account. We are aware that customers have posted our links online as we can see the google analyics data traffic, but they aren't part of our internal team. Anyone can post a link from our site, we are a web-shop!
We also were not aware that did not know someones account was banned for posting our website content, we did search our URL for the offending posts but either they were taken down or there isn't a clear indication of how those accounts got banned.
We responded to the moderation team for clarification of the ban and what rules were broken but havent received word.
The reason why this is shocking to us is because we received no warning, just a permaban instantly, literally a week within creating our account.
We want to participate in the community and help offer records that are increasingly harder to find. Reddit seems like a good place to do that but if moderators do not want to see our independent shop then I guess we will just focus our efforts elsewhere. Its a shame because we were excited to engage with our customers on the site and help out.
***We would love to just know what rules were broken by us (or even the other accounts so we dont do that in the future) and how we can be unbanned and participate within the rules.***
We want to have a good experience here and help be a part of helping people get the records they want. Just like we do every day in our shop. We don't want to spam and we don't want to try and take over the subreddit with our links or anything, but if people are looking for local options, fast shipping and good customer service alternative to big box retailers like amazon, we want people to know.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. We also would love to understand the moderations team side of this, if smaller independent retailers aren't allowed to post links on the subreddit then we think it should be in place for all the other shops that are posted there, rough trade, bullmoose, etc.
Sorry if any of this appears emotionally charged, we are shocked but we just want answers and help. Thank you for taking the time to read this!
Permabanned because I weird out the mod?[Mod Message](https://imgur.com/a/7GizEZ1)
Seeking: to be unbanned IF I'm not in the wrong and/or clarification for my ban.
I posted in one of my local r4r-type subreddits when I was hit by a permaban without warning. The message said "every part" I made was weird, so I was quite surprised and a little confused because I wasn't sure what I did that violated the rules.
I asked for clarification (hopefully, I didn't come off as being rude) and he corrected his typo, but the only specification was that I "weirded him out". He promptly blocked me, preventing further communication.
Is this uncalled for, or is this ban enforceable? I understand that being a NSFW account invites a certain amount of suspicion, but I didn't think I was being weirder than anyone else on the sub.
I'll contest it if it's not too hard, but I don't mind if I can't use the sub anymore.
Permabanned because I weird out the mod?[Mod Message](https://imgur.com/a/7GizEZ1)
Seeking: to be unbanned IF I'm not in the wrong and/or clarification for my ban.
I posted in one of my local r4r-type subreddits when I was hit by a permaban without warning. The message said "every part" I made was weird, so I was quite surprised and a little confused because I wasn't sure what I did that violated the rules.
I asked for clarification (hopefully, I didn't come off as being rude) and he corrected his typo, but the only specification was that I "weirded him out". He promptly blocked me, preventing further communication.
Is this uncalled for, or is this ban enforceable? I understand that being a NSFW account invites a certain amount of suspicion, but I didn't think I was being weirder than anyone else on the sub.
I'll contest it if it's not too hard, but I don't mind if I can't use the sub anymore.
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Violating Free Speech: My Experience with Biased Moderation on the Europe SubredditDear members of the moderationmeditation subreddit,
I am writing to share a concerning experience I recently had on the Europe subreddit. As someone who values the principles of democracy and freedom of speech, I was deeply troubled by the actions of the moderators on that platform.
Simply for expressing my opinion, which admittedly may have been distasteful and lacked empathy, I was banned from the subreddit. I understand that not everyone will agree with my viewpoints, but I firmly believe that I have a legal right to express them.
When I tried to address the situation with the moderators and explain that my comment did not constitute hate speech, they not only muted me from messaging them, but also harassed me with a link to a post that portrayed someone with "bad views and opinions." This was clearly meant to intimidate me and silence my voice.
This situation is deeply concerning because it violates Code 3 in the policy for Reddit moderators. Code 3 states that moderators should not "abuse their power by exhibiting bias or letting their personal views influence their decisions." By banning me for simply expressing my opinion and then harassing me, the moderators on the Europe subreddit demonstrated clear bias and an abuse of power. As a major platform with significant influence, it is critical that Reddit uphold the principles of free speech and democracy by enforcing its own policies.
I wanted to share my experience with other moderators to shed light on the seriousness of this issue. It is crucial that we respect each other's opinions, even if we do not necessarily agree with them. We must work to ensure that individuals are able to express their beliefs without fear of censorship or retribution.
Thank you for taking the time to read my message. I hope that we can continue to have open and honest discussions on this platform, and that we can work together to promote the values of democracy and free speech.
Violating Free Speech: My Experience with Biased Moderation on the Europe SubredditDear members of the moderationmeditation subreddit,
I am writing to share a concerning experience I recently had on the Europe subreddit. As someone who values the principles of democracy and freedom of speech, I was deeply troubled by the actions of the moderators on that platform.
Simply for expressing my opinion, which admittedly may have been distasteful and lacked empathy, I was banned from the subreddit. I understand that not everyone will agree with my viewpoints, but I firmly believe that I have a legal right to express them.
When I tried to address the situation with the moderators and explain that my comment did not constitute hate speech, they not only muted me from messaging them, but also harassed me with a link to a post that portrayed someone with "bad views and opinions." This was clearly meant to intimidate me and silence my voice.
This situation is deeply concerning because it violates Code 3 in the policy for Reddit moderators. Code 3 states that moderators should not "abuse their power by exhibiting bias or letting their personal views influence their decisions." By banning me for simply expressing my opinion and then harassing me, the moderators on the Europe subreddit demonstrated clear bias and an abuse of power. As a major platform with significant influence, it is critical that Reddit uphold the principles of free speech and democracy by enforcing its own policies.
I wanted to share my experience with other moderators to shed light on the seriousness of this issue. It is crucial that we respect each other's opinions, even if we do not necessarily agree with them. We must work to ensure that individuals are able to express their beliefs without fear of censorship or retribution.
Thank you for taking the time to read my message. I hope that we can continue to have open and honest discussions on this platform, and that we can work together to promote the values of democracy and free speech.
Permabanned, 28 day mute after asking why and being told "No SubredditDrama brigading". No clue what happened.**I am seeking:**
To be unbanned
**What happened:**
Really not sure. I'm subbed to /r/Libertarian and have been in there since ~2012 or so. I'm not subbed to /r/SubredditDrama and visit /r/all maybe once every month or two - it's possible (?) that I followed a link? I don't even think so though.
Mod message thread:
https://i.imgur.com/1cjiiSw.png
Last few comments in the sub:
https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/116njw1/30_of_oregon_counties_vote_to_secede/j98b18j/
https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/115hihx/i_agree_with_almost_70_of_the_principles_of/j94p6db/
https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/10smgjq/there_is_no_one_on_earth_i_agree_and_disagree/j72iuqs/ (17 days ago)
Permabanned, 28 day mute after asking why and being told "No SubredditDrama brigading". No clue what happened.**I am seeking:**
To be unbanned
**What happened:**
Really not sure. I'm subbed to /r/Libertarian and have been in there since ~2012 or so. I'm not subbed to /r/SubredditDrama and visit /r/all maybe once every month or two - it's possible (?) that I followed a link? I don't even think so though.
Mod message thread:
https://i.imgur.com/1cjiiSw.png
Last few comments in the sub:
https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/116njw1/30_of_oregon_counties_vote_to_secede/j98b18j/
https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/115hihx/i_agree_with_almost_70_of_the_principles_of/j94p6db/
https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/10smgjq/there_is_no_one_on_earth_i_agree_and_disagree/j72iuqs/ (17 days ago)
Permabanned, 28 day mute after asking why and being told "No SubredditDrama brigading". No clue what happened.**I am seeking:**
To be unbanned
**What happened:**
Really not sure. I'm subbed to /r/Libertarian and have been in there since ~2012 or so. I'm not subbed to /r/SubredditDrama and visit /r/all maybe once every month or two - it's possible (?) that I followed a link? I don't even think so though.
Mod message thread:
https://i.imgur.com/1cjiiSw.png
Last few comments in the sub:
https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/116njw1/30_of_oregon_counties_vote_to_secede/j98b18j/
https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/115hihx/i_agree_with_almost_70_of_the_principles_of/j94p6db/
https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/10smgjq/there_is_no_one_on_earth_i_agree_and_disagree/j72iuqs/ (17 days ago)
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>But you won't be messaged about being banned from a sub if you aren't subscribed.
That's false.
Permanent ban with no explanation, muted for trying to understandI was permanently banned from participating on r/news about 197 days ago. I am unsure why, but the ban message said I should reply if I have any questions. However, question was left unanswered and I was muted.
I’m assuming that asking why you’re banned is probably something mods don’t want to answer in fear of it would lead to a back and forth argument. Which I understand.
So since then I’ve also been using Reddit more passively since I didn’t fully understand what I did wrong and didn’t really want to offend anyone. Today I asked again why I was banned so that I could be a better person, but the reply told me to look at my comment and let them know how I’m trying to be a better person and then muted me again without giving me a chance to answer. (I can attach a screenshot, but for some reason it’s not letting me do it now, I’m guessing this post needs to be vetted before being released and then I can add an image?)
I think my lack of activity should show that my behavior changed since the ban as a whole. Also other subs have different policies and I abide by the rules and haven’t been banned anywhere; hence why activity on other subs shouldn’t be a reason to ban someone on another unrelated sub.
Either ways I’m just trying to understand what I did that got me permanently banned without a warning or temporary ban. I usually not vulgar or hateful, so I’m a bit lost Maybe this sub can help me understand the situation, since the r/news mods are muting any opportunities for me to better myself.
Whilst I’d like to be unbanned eventually if my actions didn’t break their rules; I’d also be fine with it if I knew why a permanent ban was issued. Thanks in advance
Permanent ban with no explanation, muted for trying to understandI was permanently banned from participating on r/news about 197 days ago. I am unsure why, but the ban message said I should reply if I have any questions. However, question was left unanswered and I was muted.
I’m assuming that asking why you’re banned is probably something mods don’t want to answer in fear of it would lead to a back and forth argument. Which I understand.
So since then I’ve also been using Reddit more passively since I didn’t fully understand what I did wrong and didn’t really want to offend anyone. Today I asked again why I was banned so that I could be a better person, but the reply told me to look at my comment and let them know how I’m trying to be a better person and then muted me again without giving me a chance to answer. (I can attach a screenshot, but for some reason it’s not letting me do it now, I’m guessing this post needs to be vetted before being released and then I can add an image?)
I think my lack of activity should show that my behavior changed since the ban as a whole. Also other subs have different policies and I abide by the rules and haven’t been banned anywhere; hence why activity on other subs shouldn’t be a reason to ban someone on another unrelated sub.
Either ways I’m just trying to understand what I did that got me permanently banned without a warning or temporary ban. I usually not vulgar or hateful, so I’m a bit lost Maybe this sub can help me understand the situation, since the r/news mods are muting any opportunities for me to better myself.
Whilst I’d like to be unbanned eventually if my actions didn’t break their rules; I’d also be fine with it if I knew why a permanent ban was issued. Thanks in advance
Violating Free Speech: My Experience with Biased Moderation on the Europe SubredditDear members of the moderationmeditation subreddit,
I am writing to share a concerning experience I recently had on the Europe subreddit. As someone who values the principles of democracy and freedom of speech, I was deeply troubled by the actions of the moderators on that platform.
Simply for expressing my opinion, which admittedly may have been distasteful and lacked empathy, I was banned from the subreddit. I understand that not everyone will agree with my viewpoints, but I firmly believe that I have a legal right to express them.
When I tried to address the situation with the moderators and explain that my comment did not constitute hate speech, they not only muted me from messaging them, but also harassed me with a link to a post that portrayed someone with "bad views and opinions." This was clearly meant to intimidate me and silence my voice.
This situation is deeply concerning because it violates Code 3 in the policy for Reddit moderators. Code 3 states that moderators should not "abuse their power by exhibiting bias or letting their personal views influence their decisions." By banning me for simply expressing my opinion and then harassing me, the moderators on the Europe subreddit demonstrated clear bias and an abuse of power. As a major platform with significant influence, it is critical that Reddit uphold the principles of free speech and democracy by enforcing its own policies.
I wanted to share my experience with other moderators to shed light on the seriousness of this issue. It is crucial that we respect each other's opinions, even if we do not necessarily agree with them. We must work to ensure that individuals are able to express their beliefs without fear of censorship or retribution.
Thank you for taking the time to read my message. I hope that we can continue to have open and honest discussions on this platform, and that we can work together to promote the values of democracy and free speech.
Violating Free Speech: My Experience with Biased Moderation on the Europe SubredditDear members of the moderationmeditation subreddit,
I am writing to share a concerning experience I recently had on the Europe subreddit. As someone who values the principles of democracy and freedom of speech, I was deeply troubled by the actions of the moderators on that platform.
Simply for expressing my opinion, which admittedly may have been distasteful and lacked empathy, I was banned from the subreddit. I understand that not everyone will agree with my viewpoints, but I firmly believe that I have a legal right to express them.
When I tried to address the situation with the moderators and explain that my comment did not constitute hate speech, they not only muted me from messaging them, but also harassed me with a link to a post that portrayed someone with "bad views and opinions." This was clearly meant to intimidate me and silence my voice.
This situation is deeply concerning because it violates Code 3 in the policy for Reddit moderators. Code 3 states that moderators should not "abuse their power by exhibiting bias or letting their personal views influence their decisions." By banning me for simply expressing my opinion and then harassing me, the moderators on the Europe subreddit demonstrated clear bias and an abuse of power. As a major platform with significant influence, it is critical that Reddit uphold the principles of free speech and democracy by enforcing its own policies.
I wanted to share my experience with other moderators to shed light on the seriousness of this issue. It is crucial that we respect each other's opinions, even if we do not necessarily agree with them. We must work to ensure that individuals are able to express their beliefs without fear of censorship or retribution.
Thank you for taking the time to read my message. I hope that we can continue to have open and honest discussions on this platform, and that we can work together to promote the values of democracy and free speech.
Temporarily banned for "read rule 3" then insulted, permabanned, and muted for 28 days for "read rule 3" after appealing the temp banTemporarily banned for "read rule 3" then insulted, permabanned, and muted for 28 days for "read rule 3" after appealing the temp ban
I am seeking: to be unbanned, unmuted, and the unnamed mod removed, optionally the post restored (a basic civil apology would be nice too but it's unnecessary)
What happened: I made a post with the following title in r/todayilearned
>TIL when David Gilmour was having trouble helping an equally frustrated Syd Barrett learn a guitar solo, Gilmour recorded the solo himself and then played it back to Barrett in reverse. Upon hearing the reversed playback Barret was instantly able to play the solo forwards
posted with the following YouTube link with appropriate timestamp as required by the rules:
[https://youtu.be/eRormHnvfus?t=595](https://youtu.be/eRormHnvfus?t=595)
Soon after I received an [automod message](https://freeimage.host/i/HGs2ue9) stating that my post had been removed and that I had been temporarily banned from the sub with the following note from the moderator:
>"Read rule 3"
Rule 3 states:
>Rule #3: No news or recent sources.
>Rationale for no news: Any recent events are news to everybody hence they're "Today I Learned..." material in the truest sense. Unfortunately, people catch up on recent events at different paces so someone living under a rock may learn of an event a few days or a week after it occurred and then head over to TIL to repost it. However, most everyone else has already seen it so they're faced with a repost. If it's news of a particularly contentious issue, then it'll just bring on a repeat of the flamewars. Furthermore, TIL would become a dumping ground for ALL information -- /r/technology wouldn't be getting posts about some new gizmo, /r/music wouldn't hear about the new albums, /r/gaming wouldn't be getting posts about the newly released games, etc... The rule helps to reduce redundancy among TIL and other subreddits.
>Rationale for no recent sources: This rule is meant to cover posts that link to information that was just recently created about events that have occurred some time in the past. The reasoning is that newly created information hasn't been properly "vetted" by domain experts. As a result, the information may not be factual. A two month period is an appropriate amount of time for a contrary viewpoint to emerge and point out any factual inconsistencies in the source.
>This rule does NOT mean that posts that contain links to news articles over 2 months old are not allowed.
>News articles which are over 2 months old may be removed if they describe an on-going event or the title is being used to describe current events
Even though the YouTube video itself was uploaded to YouTube on January 27, 2023 which on the surface would be in violation of Rule #3, if this were newly created content, but it is not.
This video is merely an excerpt from the documentary "The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story" that originally aired on the BBC in 2001. The DVD has been widely available since 2003. The original creator of the documentary has since been uploading unaltered segments of the documentary to his YouTube channel, and that is where this links to.
When I explained this to the mod I received the following reply:
>["Your submission content is dated January 2023, ergo it breaks rule 3.
You could write an essay about world war 2 tomorrow, does that mean it's dated 1939-45"](https://freeimage.host/i/HGs3bFR)
I attempted to explain why this is not a rule 3 violation because it is not newly created information and that this is not an instance of creating new content about old topics, that this is an excerpt from a widely available 2001 documentary with an interview from 2001 discussing events that occurred in 1970 as noted in the beginning of the video and the video's description on YouTube
Then I received the following 3 messages:
>["Bye Karen"](https://freeimage.host/i/HGsFo9S)
Followed by
>[You have been [temporarily muted](https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/reddit-101/moderators/modmail-muting) from r/todayilearned. You will not be able to message the moderators of r/todayilearned for 28 days.](https://freeimage.host/i/HGsKl1f)
Followed by
>[You have been permanently banned from participating in r/todayilearned. You can still view and subscribe to r/todayilearned, but you won't be able to post or comment.
>Note from the moderators:
> Read rule 3
](https://freeimage.host/i/HGsKSkB)
>If you have a question regarding your ban, you can contact the moderator team for r/todayilearned by replying to this message.
At no point was I discourteous or disrespectful, I laid out my argument as clearly and concisely as I could.
I apologize for how lengthy this is, but I just wanted to be as thorough as possible.
I have read rule 3, it is not clear whether or not the mod has.
Temporarily banned for "read rule 3" then insulted, permabanned, and muted for 28 days for "read rule 3" after appealing the temp banTemporarily banned for "read rule 3" then insulted, permabanned, and muted for 28 days for "read rule 3" after appealing the temp ban
I am seeking: to be unbanned, unmuted, and the unnamed mod removed, optionally the post restored (a basic civil apology would be nice too but it's unnecessary)
What happened: I made a post with the following title in r/todayilearned
>TIL when David Gilmour was having trouble helping an equally frustrated Syd Barrett learn a guitar solo, Gilmour recorded the solo himself and then played it back to Barrett in reverse. Upon hearing the reversed playback Barret was instantly able to play the solo forwards
posted with the following YouTube link with appropriate timestamp as required by the rules:
[https://youtu.be/eRormHnvfus?t=595](https://youtu.be/eRormHnvfus?t=595)
Soon after I received an [automod message](https://freeimage.host/i/HGs2ue9) stating that my post had been removed and that I had been temporarily banned from the sub with the following note from the moderator:
>"Read rule 3"
Rule 3 states:
>Rule #3: No news or recent sources.
>Rationale for no news: Any recent events are news to everybody hence they're "Today I Learned..." material in the truest sense. Unfortunately, people catch up on recent events at different paces so someone living under a rock may learn of an event a few days or a week after it occurred and then head over to TIL to repost it. However, most everyone else has already seen it so they're faced with a repost. If it's news of a particularly contentious issue, then it'll just bring on a repeat of the flamewars. Furthermore, TIL would become a dumping ground for ALL information -- /r/technology wouldn't be getting posts about some new gizmo, /r/music wouldn't hear about the new albums, /r/gaming wouldn't be getting posts about the newly released games, etc... The rule helps to reduce redundancy among TIL and other subreddits.
>Rationale for no recent sources: This rule is meant to cover posts that link to information that was just recently created about events that have occurred some time in the past. The reasoning is that newly created information hasn't been properly "vetted" by domain experts. As a result, the information may not be factual. A two month period is an appropriate amount of time for a contrary viewpoint to emerge and point out any factual inconsistencies in the source.
>This rule does NOT mean that posts that contain links to news articles over 2 months old are not allowed.
>News articles which are over 2 months old may be removed if they describe an on-going event or the title is being used to describe current events
Even though the YouTube video itself was uploaded to YouTube on January 27, 2023 which on the surface would be in violation of Rule #3, if this were newly created content, but it is not.
This video is merely an excerpt from the documentary "The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story" that originally aired on the BBC in 2001. The DVD has been widely available since 2003. The original creator of the documentary has since been uploading unaltered segments of the documentary to his YouTube channel, and that is where this links to.
When I explained this to the mod I received the following reply:
>["Your submission content is dated January 2023, ergo it breaks rule 3.
You could write an essay about world war 2 tomorrow, does that mean it's dated 1939-45"](https://freeimage.host/i/HGs3bFR)
I attempted to explain why this is not a rule 3 violation because it is not newly created information and that this is not an instance of creating new content about old topics, that this is an excerpt from a widely available 2001 documentary with an interview from 2001 discussing events that occurred in 1970 as noted in the beginning of the video and the video's description on YouTube
Then I received the following 3 messages:
>["Bye Karen"](https://freeimage.host/i/HGsFo9S)
Followed by
>[You have been [temporarily muted](https://www.reddithelp.com/en/categories/reddit-101/moderators/modmail-muting) from r/todayilearned. You will not be able to message the moderators of r/todayilearned for 28 days.](https://freeimage.host/i/HGsKl1f)
Followed by
>[You have been permanently banned from participating in r/todayilearned. You can still view and subscribe to r/todayilearned, but you won't be able to post or comment.
>Note from the moderators:
> Read rule 3
](https://freeimage.host/i/HGsKSkB)
>If you have a question regarding your ban, you can contact the moderator team for r/todayilearned by replying to this message.
At no point was I discourteous or disrespectful, I laid out my argument as clearly and concisely as I could.
I apologize for how lengthy this is, but I just wanted to be as thorough as possible.
I have read rule 3, it is not clear whether or not the mod has.
Permabanned, 28 day mute after asking why and being told "No SubredditDrama brigading". No clue what happened.**I am seeking:**
To be unbanned
**What happened:**
Really not sure. I'm subbed to /r/Libertarian and have been in there since ~2012 or so. I'm not subbed to /r/SubredditDrama and visit /r/all maybe once every month or two - it's possible (?) that I followed a link? I don't even think so though.
Mod message thread:
https://i.imgur.com/1cjiiSw.png
Last few comments in the sub:
https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/116njw1/30_of_oregon_counties_vote_to_secede/j98b18j/
https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/115hihx/i_agree_with_almost_70_of_the_principles_of/j94p6db/
https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/10smgjq/there_is_no_one_on_earth_i_agree_and_disagree/j72iuqs/ (17 days ago)
Permabanned, 28 day mute after asking why and being told "No SubredditDrama brigading". No clue what happened.**I am seeking:**
To be unbanned
**What happened:**
Really not sure. I'm subbed to /r/Libertarian and have been in there since ~2012 or so. I'm not subbed to /r/SubredditDrama and visit /r/all maybe once every month or two - it's possible (?) that I followed a link? I don't even think so though.
Mod message thread:
https://i.imgur.com/1cjiiSw.png
Last few comments in the sub:
https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/116njw1/30_of_oregon_counties_vote_to_secede/j98b18j/
https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/115hihx/i_agree_with_almost_70_of_the_principles_of/j94p6db/
https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/10smgjq/there_is_no_one_on_earth_i_agree_and_disagree/j72iuqs/ (17 days ago)
> But you won't be messaged about being banned from a sub if you aren't subscribed.
I’m here to tell you that’s not true. I have been banned from subs I’ve never subscribed to, visited or even heard of before. I only found out because they sent me a message telling me I’ve been banned. I cant recall the sub but there was a post elsewhere asking about it as they had sent out 60-70K bans in a short period of time.
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> But you won't be messaged about being banned from a sub if you aren't subscribed.
I’m here to tell you that’s not true. I have been banned from subs I’ve never subscribed to, visited or even heard of before. I only found out because they sent me a message telling me I’ve been banned. I cant recall the sub but there was a post elsewhere asking about it as they had sent out 60-70K bans in a short period of time.
> If you received a message of a ban that means you have subscribed to that sub at some point before the ban. Otherwise, a ban would not generate a ban message.
Maybe Im reading this wrong but your statement implies that you have to be subscribed to a sub to be banned from it and I know that’s not the case.
Even so I’m not implying or accusing you of anything just passing along what I feel is on topic information.
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You should stop being so lazy and rely on yourself to get banned from subs rather than letting other people do it for you.
> If you received a message of a ban that means you have subscribed to that sub at some point before the ban. Otherwise, a ban would not generate a ban message.
Maybe Im reading this wrong but your statement implies that you have to be subscribed to a sub to be banned from it and I know that’s not the case.
Even so I’m not implying or accusing you of anything just passing along what I feel is on topic information.
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Permabanned from AmITheAsshole for “reposting” a removed comment, yet all I did was clarify the language of the comment to be clear my original comment was not inflammatory. Then modmail muted for calling out the mod (who has been posted about before)I am seeking: to see if I was really being the asshole here. Was my comment genuinely inflammatory? Was it not civil? Do you believe mods should take intentions into account when removing comments and banning, assuming the comment isn’t racist/homophobic/etc. (which deserves a ban ofc)? Was my comment sexist?
What happened:
https://imgur.com/a/luGHuqn
Basically, I made a comment about MILFs (a semi-relevant comment) the moderator removed my comment for the rule “Be Civil.” My comment did not violate that rule as I wasn’t insulting anybody, so I very clearly amended the language of the comment and clarified that I meant “fat ass” as a compliment for MILFs, not an insult. That comment got me permabanned for “reposting a removed comment”, yet the language was different and had clarification.
I will admit that in the modmail, I was trying to push him/her/them into making an AmITheAsshole post cause I thought they were being hypocritical/the definition of irony, but before modmail, I believe it was an idiotic reason for a *permanent ban* considering I wasn’t insulting or directing my comment towards anybody.
If the comment had been removed for being off topic, I probably wouldn’t have thought about it, but I figured the issue was just that it could’ve been seen as an insult
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Permabanned from AmITheAsshole for “reposting” a removed comment, yet all I did was clarify the language of the comment to be clear my original comment was not inflammatory. Then modmail muted for calling out the mod (who has been posted about before)I am seeking: to see if I was really being the asshole here. Was my comment genuinely inflammatory? Was it not civil? Do you believe mods should take intentions into account when removing comments and banning, assuming the comment isn’t racist/homophobic/etc. (which deserves a ban ofc)? Was my comment sexist?
What happened:
https://imgur.com/a/luGHuqn
Basically, I made a comment about MILFs (a semi-relevant comment) the moderator removed my comment for the rule “Be Civil.” My comment did not violate that rule as I wasn’t insulting anybody, so I very clearly amended the language of the comment and clarified that I meant “fat ass” as a compliment for MILFs, not an insult. That comment got me permabanned for “reposting a removed comment”, yet the language was different and had clarification.
I will admit that in the modmail, I was trying to push him/her/them into making an AmITheAsshole post cause I thought they were being hypocritical/the definition of irony, but before modmail, I believe it was an idiotic reason for a *permanent ban* considering I wasn’t insulting or directing my comment towards anybody.
If the comment had been removed for being off topic, I probably wouldn’t have thought about it, but I figured the issue was just that it could’ve been seen as an insult
Permabanned from AmITheAsshole for “reposting” a removed comment, yet all I did was clarify the language of the comment to be clear my original comment was not inflammatory. Then modmail muted for calling out the mod (who has been posted about before)I am seeking: to see if I was really being the asshole here. Was my comment genuinely inflammatory? Was it not civil? Do you believe mods should take intentions into account when removing comments and banning, assuming the comment isn’t racist/homophobic/etc. (which deserves a ban ofc)? Was my comment sexist?
What happened:
https://imgur.com/a/luGHuqn
Basically, I made a comment about MILFs (a semi-relevant comment) the moderator removed my comment for the rule “Be Civil.” My comment did not violate that rule as I wasn’t insulting anybody, so I very clearly amended the language of the comment and clarified that I meant “fat ass” as a compliment for MILFs, not an insult. That comment got me permabanned for “reposting a removed comment”, yet the language was different and had clarification.
I will admit that in the modmail, I was trying to push him/her/them into making an AmITheAsshole post cause I thought they were being hypocritical/the definition of irony, but before modmail, I believe it was an idiotic reason for a *permanent ban* considering I wasn’t insulting or directing my comment towards anybody.
If the comment had been removed for being off topic, I probably wouldn’t have thought about it, but I figured the issue was just that it could’ve been seen as an insult
Permabanned from AmITheAsshole for “reposting” a removed comment, yet all I did was clarify the language of the comment to be clear my original comment was not inflammatory. Then modmail muted for calling out the mod (who has been posted about before)I am seeking: to see if I was really being the asshole here. Was my comment genuinely inflammatory? Was it not civil? Do you believe mods should take intentions into account when removing comments and banning, assuming the comment isn’t racist/homophobic/etc. (which deserves a ban ofc)? Was my comment sexist?
What happened:
https://imgur.com/a/luGHuqn
Basically, I made a comment about MILFs (a semi-relevant comment) the moderator removed my comment for the rule “Be Civil.” My comment did not violate that rule as I wasn’t insulting anybody, so I very clearly amended the language of the comment and clarified that I meant “fat ass” as a compliment for MILFs, not an insult. That comment got me permabanned for “reposting a removed comment”, yet the language was different and had clarification.
I will admit that in the modmail, I was trying to push him/her/them into making an AmITheAsshole post cause I thought they were being hypocritical/the definition of irony, but before modmail, I believe it was an idiotic reason for a *permanent ban* considering I wasn’t insulting or directing my comment towards anybody.
If the comment had been removed for being off topic, I probably wouldn’t have thought about it, but I figured the issue was just that it could’ve been seen as an insult
I don’t believe this to be the case. I have been banned from subs that I have never heard of let alone participated it after participating in a other subs. My understanding of the safest bot is that it can scan users of a sub ( as directed by the mods of the sub doing the banning) and it just sends out bans.
A mod of (pick your sub) could feel that ANY user of this sub could potentially be a problem to their sub and out of the blue anyone that has ever posted here can get a ban/mute message.
Is it right/fair/reasonable…that’s not for me to say here but that’s how it works. Typically Im not one to read peoples post history as whatever is there can easily be taken out of context but not being able to at least see a list of posted subs its all guesswork.
As another person said it could just be ops user name that’s found to be offensive (can’t really argue with that) but most likely they belong or have commented on some sub that the mods of self reliance don’t agree with.
I don’t believe this to be the case. I have been banned from subs that I have never heard of let alone participated it after participating in a other subs. My understanding of the safest bot is that it can scan users of a sub ( as directed by the mods of the sub doing the banning) and it just sends out bans.
A mod of (pick your sub) could feel that ANY user of this sub could potentially be a problem to their sub and out of the blue anyone that has ever posted here can get a ban/mute message.
Is it right/fair/reasonable…that’s not for me to say here but that’s how it works. Typically Im not one to read peoples post history as whatever is there can easily be taken out of context but not being able to at least see a list of posted subs its all guesswork.
As another person said it could just be ops user name that’s found to be offensive (can’t really argue with that) but most likely they belong or have commented on some sub that the mods of self reliance don’t agree with.
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You are putting multiple dog whistles in here. You clearly know that you were posting a neo-fascist. You did the classic claiming to be a minority in order to encourage fascist opinions and pretend that these people have no reason to use this label toward ShoeOnHead when she is a Gamer Gater, Trump supporter and probably more vile things over the years rather than a left wing progressive. How is it progressive to argue for no change to the wage gap? I do not think the wage gap argument is the most convincing feminist issue, nor the statement you claim to have clipped sound particularly wrong, but to say she is coming from a progressive place is dishonest.
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i was banned from instantkarma today because i commented on a trending post from r/joerogan. when i appealed i was told "that subs advertisers should not be rewarded for the traffic metrics you and your peers provide them" as if im some kind of alt right sympathizer
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If you really want people to see the Oathkeepers in a different light, then why do you use such low faith in other people's experiences? You have written.messages saying people watch too much CNN or that all Antifa are people saying "everyone I don't like is a Nazi" and therefore using their stance of violent revolution as an excuse to hurt everyone who is mean to them. You said those things in the screenshot to make yourself look honorable compared to your enemies and share it to make others look ridiculous.
Muted and Permabanned from a sub I've never posted in, visited, or even heard of.Got two PM's stating I had been banned and muted from /r/selfreliance. I've never even heard of that sub, much less ever visited or posted there. The first PM stating I was permabanned mentions that I can message the mods, but it won't let me because they issued the muting at the same time. Can someone explain what happened here?
Muted and Permabanned from a sub I've never posted in, visited, or even heard of.Got two PM's stating I had been banned and muted from /r/selfreliance. I've never even heard of that sub, much less ever visited or posted there. The first PM stating I was permabanned mentions that I can message the mods, but it won't let me because they issued the muting at the same time. Can someone explain what happened here?
Muted and Permabanned from a sub I've never posted in, visited, or even heard of.Got two PM's stating I had been banned and muted from /r/selfreliance. I've never even heard of that sub, much less ever visited or posted there. The first PM stating I was permabanned mentions that I can message the mods, but it won't let me because they issued the muting at the same time. Can someone explain what happened here?
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Post deleted because subject mattered was allegedly already talked aboutWhat I am seeking: I'm hoping to get some advice or clarification as to why I got my post removed.
What happened: I go to some music subreddit to simply ask what people did "What to do while listening to Everywhere at the End of Time" album. I first went online to see if I can find my own answer first. Couldn't find what I was looking as you'll see in the comments of the actual post. So I made a post that said,
" I recently have gotten interested in doing a full sitting of the album. Of course me being who I am, I can't sit still for 6.5 hours listening to music. I gotta do something else while doing it. I figured that playing video games would take my attention off the main experience, at least ones that require more intense focus. Maybe I could get away with playing lego stars complete saga. But idk. For those who have listened, what did you do during this 6.5 journey?".
Well if you check out the original [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/116n6lb/what_to_do_while_listening_everywhere_at_the_end/) you'll see what happened. What do you guys think? I asked my roommate and he to is also confused how its justified to be removed so I figured why not get some outside perspective and possibly some clarification.
Post deleted because subject mattered was allegedly already talked aboutWhat I am seeking: I'm hoping to get some advice or clarification as to why I got my post removed.
What happened: I go to some music subreddit to simply ask what people did "What to do while listening to Everywhere at the End of Time" album. I first went online to see if I can find my own answer first. Couldn't find what I was looking as you'll see in the comments of the actual post. So I made a post that said,
" I recently have gotten interested in doing a full sitting of the album. Of course me being who I am, I can't sit still for 6.5 hours listening to music. I gotta do something else while doing it. I figured that playing video games would take my attention off the main experience, at least ones that require more intense focus. Maybe I could get away with playing lego stars complete saga. But idk. For those who have listened, what did you do during this 6.5 journey?".
Well if you check out the original [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/116n6lb/what_to_do_while_listening_everywhere_at_the_end/) you'll see what happened. What do you guys think? I asked my roommate and he to is also confused how its justified to be removed so I figured why not get some outside perspective and possibly some clarification.
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ban because i have opinions diffrent than the mod, not harming anyonei am seeking: help with getting unbanned
explenation:
everything including context is in the screenshots [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14DrKi16S8vyP0FpFkd9kJYcEj7souQXZ?usp=sharing)
haven't broken any of the rules, and ive also been acused of things i despise and wasn't even near doing, then got muted for asking questions, you should decide, all took place on r/WitchesVsPatriarchy
ban because i have opinions diffrent than the mod, not harming anyonei am seeking: help with getting unbanned
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everything including context is in the screenshots [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14DrKi16S8vyP0FpFkd9kJYcEj7souQXZ?usp=sharing)
haven't broken any of the rules, and ive also been acused of things i despise and wasn't even near doing, then got muted for asking questions, you should decide, all took place on r/WitchesVsPatriarchy
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Permabanned from /r/Libertarian, 28 day mute after asking why and being told "No SubredditDrama brigading". No clue what happened.**I am seeking:**
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/10smgjq/there_is_no_one_on_earth_i_agree_and_disagree/j72iuqs/ (17 days ago)
Permabanned from /r/Libertarian, 28 day mute after asking why and being told "No SubredditDrama brigading". No clue what happened.**I am seeking:**
To be unbanned
**What happened:**
Really not sure. I'm subbed to /r/Libertarian and have been in there since ~2012 or so. I'm not subbed to /r/SubredditDrama and visit /r/all maybe once every month or two - it's possible (?) that I followed a link? I don't even think so though.
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Last few comments in the sub:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/116njw1/30_of_oregon_counties_vote_to_secede/j98b18j/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/115hihx/i_agree_with_almost_70_of_the_principles_of/j94p6db/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/10smgjq/there_is_no_one_on_earth_i_agree_and_disagree/j72iuqs/ (17 days ago)
Post deleted because subject mattered was allegedly already talked aboutWhat I am seeking: I'm hoping to get some advice or clarification as to why I got my post removed.
What happened: I go to some music subreddit to simply ask what people did "What to do while listening to Everywhere at the End of Time" album. I first went online to see if I can find my own answer first. Couldn't find what I was looking as you'll see in the comments of the actual post. So I made a post that said,
" I recently have gotten interested in doing a full sitting of the album. Of course me being who I am, I can't sit still for 6.5 hours listening to music. I gotta do something else while doing it. I figured that playing video games would take my attention off the main experience, at least ones that require more intense focus. Maybe I could get away with playing lego stars complete saga. But idk. For those who have listened, what did you do during this 6.5 journey?".
Well if you check out the original [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/116n6lb/what_to_do_while_listening_everywhere_at_the_end/) you'll see what happened. What do you guys think? I asked my roommate and he to is also confused how its justified to be removed so I figured why not get some outside perspective and possibly some clarification.
Post deleted because subject mattered was allegedly already talked aboutWhat I am seeking: I'm hoping to get some advice or clarification as to why I got my post removed.
What happened: I go to some music subreddit to simply ask what people did "What to do while listening to Everywhere at the End of Time" album. I first went online to see if I can find my own answer first. Couldn't find what I was looking as you'll see in the comments of the actual post. So I made a post that said,
" I recently have gotten interested in doing a full sitting of the album. Of course me being who I am, I can't sit still for 6.5 hours listening to music. I gotta do something else while doing it. I figured that playing video games would take my attention off the main experience, at least ones that require more intense focus. Maybe I could get away with playing lego stars complete saga. But idk. For those who have listened, what did you do during this 6.5 journey?".
Well if you check out the original [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/116n6lb/what_to_do_while_listening_everywhere_at_the_end/) you'll see what happened. What do you guys think? I asked my roommate and he to is also confused how its justified to be removed so I figured why not get some outside perspective and possibly some clarification.
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permban from justice servedHello I have been permaban from justice served sub reddit due to posting in r/conservative my post in the conservative sub reddit mainly consisted of telling people who were mad at the black national anthem being sung at the super bowl that they were basically out raged for no reason when I tried to ask what type of speech got me banned they put me on mute and refused to elaborate any further. I didn't even know you could be ban for commenting on other subreddits.
permban from justice servedHello I have been permaban from justice served sub reddit due to posting in r/conservative my post in the conservative sub reddit mainly consisted of telling people who were mad at the black national anthem being sung at the super bowl that they were basically out raged for no reason when I tried to ask what type of speech got me banned they put me on mute and refused to elaborate any further. I didn't even know you could be ban for commenting on other subreddits.
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got banned from pcgaming for saying a game trailer was wokehttps://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/115le5n/diablo_4_official_open_beta_announcement/j96gtar/
not sure if this comment still shows for other people but i said this
>lol diawoke 4. i should've known.
i got perma banned from r/pcgaming for it. isn't that fucking crazy?
edit: also want to say the ban message did not even say why. i'm guessing it doesnt actually break any rules and mods couldn't even mental gymnastic it to get an excuse. i messaged them back asking for an articulation on why but i'm guessing i'll get some trash talk and mute.
got banned from pcgaming for saying a game trailer was wokehttps://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/115le5n/diablo_4_official_open_beta_announcement/j96gtar/
not sure if this comment still shows for other people but i said this
>lol diawoke 4. i should've known.
i got perma banned from r/pcgaming for it. isn't that fucking crazy?
edit: also want to say the ban message did not even say why. i'm guessing it doesnt actually break any rules and mods couldn't even mental gymnastic it to get an excuse. i messaged them back asking for an articulation on why but i'm guessing i'll get some trash talk and mute.
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My post keeps on getting removed and I’m not sure whyI’m not going to say specifically which one but I’m an artist who’s trying to get my work out there and this one moderator keeps on removing my post. For context, my removed post doesn’t have any profanity, gore, or anything else that would be deemed innapropiate. For any Reddit artists on here, how do you not get your art removed?
My post keeps on getting removed and I’m not sure whyI’m not going to say specifically which one but I’m an artist who’s trying to get my work out there and this one moderator keeps on removing my post. For context, my removed post doesn’t have any profanity, gore, or anything else that would be deemed innapropiate. For any Reddit artists on here, how do you not get your art removed?
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Mod removed post without good reason?I go to some music subreddit to simply ask what people did "What to do while listening to Everywhere at the End of Time" album. I first went online to see if I can find my own answer first. Couldn't find what I was looking as you'll see in the comments of the actual post. So I made a post that said,
" I recently have gotten interested in doing a full sitting of the album. Of course me being who I am, I can't sit still for 6.5 hours listening to music. I gotta do something else while doing it. I figured that playing video games would take my attention off the main experience, at least ones that require more intense focus. Maybe I could get away with playing lego stars complete saga. But idk. For those who have listened, what did you do during this 6.5 journey?".
Well if you check out the original [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/116n6lb/what_to_do_while_listening_everywhere_at_the_end/) you'll see what happened. What do you guys think? I asked my roommate and he to is also confused how its justified to be removed so I figured why not get some outside perspective and possibly some clarification.
Mod removed post without good reason?I go to some music subreddit to simply ask what people did "What to do while listening to Everywhere at the End of Time" album. I first went online to see if I can find my own answer first. Couldn't find what I was looking as you'll see in the comments of the actual post. So I made a post that said,
" I recently have gotten interested in doing a full sitting of the album. Of course me being who I am, I can't sit still for 6.5 hours listening to music. I gotta do something else while doing it. I figured that playing video games would take my attention off the main experience, at least ones that require more intense focus. Maybe I could get away with playing lego stars complete saga. But idk. For those who have listened, what did you do during this 6.5 journey?".
Well if you check out the original [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/116n6lb/what_to_do_while_listening_everywhere_at_the_end/) you'll see what happened. What do you guys think? I asked my roommate and he to is also confused how its justified to be removed so I figured why not get some outside perspective and possibly some clarification.
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Banned from r/news for correctly guessing the race of child victimsI asserted that children under found working in unsafe conditions weren’t white. This fact was then supported by the article.
My post had no replies or upvotes but a mod found it and decided it merited a perma ban.
When I responded explaining that the race of these children is an important fact that shouldn’t be swept under the rug because it makes us uncomfortable I was accused of race-baiting.
The fact remains that these children look like me and the public outcry would be deafening if these kids were white.
Banned from r/news for correctly guessing the race of child victimsI asserted that children under found working in unsafe conditions weren’t white. This fact was then supported by the article.
My post had no replies or upvotes but a mod found it and decided it merited a perma ban.
When I responded explaining that the race of these children is an important fact that shouldn’t be swept under the rug because it makes us uncomfortable I was accused of race-baiting.
The fact remains that these children look like me and the public outcry would be deafening if these kids were white.
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Permabanned from r/marvelstudiosBasically I posted a review of Thor 4 criticizing it and calling it a terrible film. The post got a lot of engagement through comments and I had good discussion. It didn’t get a lot of upvotes obviously but I knew that would happen and I sorta wanted to kick the hornets nest and debate people who loved Thor 4 passionately. I assumed posting anything about the MCU, especially opinions, would be fine considering it’s an MCU subreddit but suddenly 2 hours after being posted it is removed for redundancy/repetitiveness. This is rule 3 on the subreddit and it is apparently applied for 6 months.
The post I made had me questioning how Thor 4 was even made because it was so bad. I looked through the last 6 months on the subreddit to find posts criticizing Thor 4 and legit couldn’t find a single one that was negative. I explained this to the moderator and tried to appeal the post being deleted. The moderator provided a post from the last six months as an example to how my post was redundant but the post he gave was a positive Thor post. I again said how my post was not the same as that and that there seems to be some power tripping here. Then after I said that I got muted from messaging moderators.
I then commented on a few posts on the subreddit calling out the moderators for their bullshit and saying that they should be called out for their bias. Then immediately after commenting that I was banned for seven days and then right after permabanned. What was I banned for exactly? I looked at their rules and the only one I could imagine would be trolling, but I wasn’t trolling. I was bringing up an actual point about the moderators and then zip immediately banned from one of my main subreddits I often visit and talk on. Zero warning and I didn’t break any community rules.
Wtf do I do now? I love going to this subreddit to talk about the MCU and now I can’t ever again. All because these stupid cunts moderating are in charge. I find it so stupid that these punks who allow racist BS to stay have complete control over me sharing my opinion on something I love on basically the only major subreddit that’s just for the MCU. Now I can’t converse with anyone or talk about my opinions on the movies or go into the nerdy shit with anyone. Is there nothing I can do and does anyone else have stories of the moderators being complete scumbags like this?
I know who the moderators are despite the fact that they try to hide it. The mod who did this was:
u/GaylienUFO
If anyone has any information on how to get these guys back or out of power then please help.
I have photos of my OG post, my conversation with the mod, and my ban messages.
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Permabanned from r/marvelstudiosBasically I posted a review of Thor 4 criticizing it and calling it a terrible film. The post got a lot of engagement through comments and I had good discussion. It didn’t get a lot of upvotes obviously but I knew that would happen and I sorta wanted to kick the hornets nest and debate people who loved Thor 4 passionately. I assumed posting anything about the MCU, especially opinions, would be fine considering it’s an MCU subreddit but suddenly 2 hours after being posted it is removed for redundancy/repetitiveness. This is rule 3 on the subreddit and it is apparently applied for 6 months.
The post I made had me questioning how Thor 4 was even made because it was so bad. I looked through the last 6 months on the subreddit to find posts criticizing Thor 4 and legit couldn’t find a single one that was negative. I explained this to the moderator and tried to appeal the post being deleted. The moderator provided a post from the last six months as an example to how my post was redundant but the post he gave was a positive Thor post. I again said how my post was not the same as that and that there seems to be some power tripping here. Then after I said that I got muted from messaging moderators.
I then commented on a few posts on the subreddit calling out the moderators for their bullshit and saying that they should be called out for their bias. Then immediately after commenting that I was banned for seven days and then right after permabanned. What was I banned for exactly? I looked at their rules and the only one I could imagine would be trolling, but I wasn’t trolling. I was bringing up an actual point about the moderators and then zip immediately banned from one of my main subreddits I often visit and talk on. Zero warning and I didn’t break any community rules.
Wtf do I do now? I love going to this subreddit to talk about the MCU and now I can’t ever again. All because these stupid cunts moderating are in charge. I find it so stupid that these punks who allow racist BS to stay have complete control over me sharing my opinion on something I love on basically the only major subreddit that’s just for the MCU. Now I can’t converse with anyone or talk about my opinions on the movies or go into the nerdy shit with anyone. Is there nothing I can do and does anyone else have stories of the moderators being complete scumbags like this?
I know who the moderators are despite the fact that they try to hide it. The mod who did this was:
u/GaylienUFO
If anyone has any information on how to get these guys back or out of power then please help.
I have photos of my OG post, my conversation with the mod, and my ban messages.
Muted and Permabanned from a sub I've never posted in, visited, or even heard of.Got two PM's stating I had been banned and muted from /r/selfreliance. I've never even heard of that sub, much less ever visited or posted there. The first PM stating I was permabanned mentions that I can message the mods, but it won't let me because they issued the muting at the same time. Can someone explain what happened here?
Muted and Permabanned from a sub I've never posted in, visited, or even heard of.Got two PM's stating I had been banned and muted from /r/selfreliance. I've never even heard of that sub, much less ever visited or posted there. The first PM stating I was permabanned mentions that I can message the mods, but it won't let me because they issued the muting at the same time. Can someone explain what happened here?
i was banned from instantkarma today because i commented on a trending post from r/joerogan. when i appealed i was told "that subs advertisers should not be rewarded for the traffic metrics you and your peers provide them" as if im some kind of alt right sympathizer
ban because i have opinions diffrent than the mod, not harming anyonei am seeking: help with getting unbanned
explenation:
everything including context is in the screenshots [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14DrKi16S8vyP0FpFkd9kJYcEj7souQXZ?usp=sharing)
haven't broken any of the rules, and ive also been acused of things i despise and wasn't even near doing, then got muted for asking questions, you should decide, all took place on r/WitchesVsPatriarchy
ban because i have opinions diffrent than the mod, not harming anyonei am seeking: help with getting unbanned
explenation:
everything including context is in the screenshots [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14DrKi16S8vyP0FpFkd9kJYcEj7souQXZ?usp=sharing)
haven't broken any of the rules, and ive also been acused of things i despise and wasn't even near doing, then got muted for asking questions, you should decide, all took place on r/WitchesVsPatriarchy
Permabanned from /r/Libertarian, 28 day mute after asking why and being told "No SubredditDrama brigading". No clue what happened.**I am seeking:**
To be unbanned
**What happened:**
Really not sure. I'm subbed to /r/Libertarian and have been in there since ~2012 or so. I'm not subbed to /r/SubredditDrama and visit /r/all maybe once every month or two - it's possible (?) that I followed a link? I don't even think so though.
Mod message thread:
https://i.imgur.com/1cjiiSw.png
Last few comments in the sub:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/116njw1/30_of_oregon_counties_vote_to_secede/j98b18j/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/115hihx/i_agree_with_almost_70_of_the_principles_of/j94p6db/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/10smgjq/there_is_no_one_on_earth_i_agree_and_disagree/j72iuqs/ (17 days ago)
Permabanned from /r/Libertarian, 28 day mute after asking why and being told "No SubredditDrama brigading". No clue what happened.**I am seeking:**
To be unbanned
**What happened:**
Really not sure. I'm subbed to /r/Libertarian and have been in there since ~2012 or so. I'm not subbed to /r/SubredditDrama and visit /r/all maybe once every month or two - it's possible (?) that I followed a link? I don't even think so though.
Mod message thread:
https://i.imgur.com/1cjiiSw.png
Last few comments in the sub:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/116njw1/30_of_oregon_counties_vote_to_secede/j98b18j/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/115hihx/i_agree_with_almost_70_of_the_principles_of/j94p6db/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/10smgjq/there_is_no_one_on_earth_i_agree_and_disagree/j72iuqs/ (17 days ago)
You are putting multiple dog whistles in here. You clearly know that you were posting a neo-fascist. You did the classic claiming to be a minority in order to encourage fascist opinions and pretend that these people have no reason to use this label toward ShoeOnHead when she is a Gamer Gater, Trump supporter and probably more vile things over the years rather than a left wing progressive. How is it progressive to argue for no change to the wage gap? I do not think the wage gap argument is the most convincing feminist issue, nor the statement you claim to have clipped sound particularly wrong, but to say she is coming from a progressive place is dishonest.
permban from justice servedHello I have been permaban from justice served sub reddit due to posting in r/conservative my post in the conservative sub reddit mainly consisted of telling people who were mad at the black national anthem being sung at the super bowl that they were basically out raged for no reason when I tried to ask what type of speech got me banned they put me on mute and refused to elaborate any further. I didn't even know you could be ban for commenting on other subreddits.
permban from justice servedHello I have been permaban from justice served sub reddit due to posting in r/conservative my post in the conservative sub reddit mainly consisted of telling people who were mad at the black national anthem being sung at the super bowl that they were basically out raged for no reason when I tried to ask what type of speech got me banned they put me on mute and refused to elaborate any further. I didn't even know you could be ban for commenting on other subreddits.
got banned from pcgaming for saying a game trailer was wokehttps://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/115le5n/diablo_4_official_open_beta_announcement/j96gtar/
not sure if this comment still shows for other people but i said this
>lol diawoke 4. i should've known.
i got perma banned from r/pcgaming for it. isn't that fucking crazy?
edit: also want to say the ban message did not even say why. i'm guessing it doesnt actually break any rules and mods couldn't even mental gymnastic it to get an excuse. i messaged them back asking for an articulation on why but i'm guessing i'll get some trash talk and mute.
got banned from pcgaming for saying a game trailer was wokehttps://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/115le5n/diablo_4_official_open_beta_announcement/j96gtar/
not sure if this comment still shows for other people but i said this
>lol diawoke 4. i should've known.
i got perma banned from r/pcgaming for it. isn't that fucking crazy?
edit: also want to say the ban message did not even say why. i'm guessing it doesnt actually break any rules and mods couldn't even mental gymnastic it to get an excuse. i messaged them back asking for an articulation on why but i'm guessing i'll get some trash talk and mute.
My post keeps on getting removed and I’m not sure whyI’m not going to say specifically which one but I’m an artist who’s trying to get my work out there and this one moderator keeps on removing my post. For context, my removed post doesn’t have any profanity, gore, or anything else that would be deemed innapropiate. For any Reddit artists on here, how do you not get your art removed?
My post keeps on getting removed and I’m not sure whyI’m not going to say specifically which one but I’m an artist who’s trying to get my work out there and this one moderator keeps on removing my post. For context, my removed post doesn’t have any profanity, gore, or anything else that would be deemed innapropiate. For any Reddit artists on here, how do you not get your art removed?
Mod removed post without good reason?I go to some music subreddit to simply ask what people did "What to do while listening to Everywhere at the End of Time" album. I first went online to see if I can find my own answer first. Couldn't find what I was looking as you'll see in the comments of the actual post. So I made a post that said,
" I recently have gotten interested in doing a full sitting of the album. Of course me being who I am, I can't sit still for 6.5 hours listening to music. I gotta do something else while doing it. I figured that playing video games would take my attention off the main experience, at least ones that require more intense focus. Maybe I could get away with playing lego stars complete saga. But idk. For those who have listened, what did you do during this 6.5 journey?".
Well if you check out the original [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/116n6lb/what_to_do_while_listening_everywhere_at_the_end/) you'll see what happened. What do you guys think? I asked my roommate and he to is also confused how its justified to be removed so I figured why not get some outside perspective and possibly some clarification.
Mod removed post without good reason?I go to some music subreddit to simply ask what people did "What to do while listening to Everywhere at the End of Time" album. I first went online to see if I can find my own answer first. Couldn't find what I was looking as you'll see in the comments of the actual post. So I made a post that said,
" I recently have gotten interested in doing a full sitting of the album. Of course me being who I am, I can't sit still for 6.5 hours listening to music. I gotta do something else while doing it. I figured that playing video games would take my attention off the main experience, at least ones that require more intense focus. Maybe I could get away with playing lego stars complete saga. But idk. For those who have listened, what did you do during this 6.5 journey?".
Well if you check out the original [link](https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/116n6lb/what_to_do_while_listening_everywhere_at_the_end/) you'll see what happened. What do you guys think? I asked my roommate and he to is also confused how its justified to be removed so I figured why not get some outside perspective and possibly some clarification.
Banned from r/news for correctly guessing the race of child victimsI asserted that children under found working in unsafe conditions weren’t white. This fact was then supported by the article.
My post had no replies or upvotes but a mod found it and decided it merited a perma ban.
When I responded explaining that the race of these children is an important fact that shouldn’t be swept under the rug because it makes us uncomfortable I was accused of race-baiting.
The fact remains that these children look like me and the public outcry would be deafening if these kids were white.
Banned from r/news for correctly guessing the race of child victimsI asserted that children under found working in unsafe conditions weren’t white. This fact was then supported by the article.
My post had no replies or upvotes but a mod found it and decided it merited a perma ban.
When I responded explaining that the race of these children is an important fact that shouldn’t be swept under the rug because it makes us uncomfortable I was accused of race-baiting.
The fact remains that these children look like me and the public outcry would be deafening if these kids were white.
Permabanned from r/marvelstudiosBasically I posted a review of Thor 4 criticizing it and calling it a terrible film. The post got a lot of engagement through comments and I had good discussion. It didn’t get a lot of upvotes obviously but I knew that would happen and I sorta wanted to kick the hornets nest and debate people who loved Thor 4 passionately. I assumed posting anything about the MCU, especially opinions, would be fine considering it’s an MCU subreddit but suddenly 2 hours after being posted it is removed for redundancy/repetitiveness. This is rule 3 on the subreddit and it is apparently applied for 6 months.
The post I made had me questioning how Thor 4 was even made because it was so bad. I looked through the last 6 months on the subreddit to find posts criticizing Thor 4 and legit couldn’t find a single one that was negative. I explained this to the moderator and tried to appeal the post being deleted. The moderator provided a post from the last six months as an example to how my post was redundant but the post he gave was a positive Thor post. I again said how my post was not the same as that and that there seems to be some power tripping here. Then after I said that I got muted from messaging moderators.
I then commented on a few posts on the subreddit calling out the moderators for their bullshit and saying that they should be called out for their bias. Then immediately after commenting that I was banned for seven days and then right after permabanned. What was I banned for exactly? I looked at their rules and the only one I could imagine would be trolling, but I wasn’t trolling. I was bringing up an actual point about the moderators and then zip immediately banned from one of my main subreddits I often visit and talk on. Zero warning and I didn’t break any community rules.
Wtf do I do now? I love going to this subreddit to talk about the MCU and now I can’t ever again. All because these stupid cunts moderating are in charge. I find it so stupid that these punks who allow racist BS to stay have complete control over me sharing my opinion on something I love on basically the only major subreddit that’s just for the MCU. Now I can’t converse with anyone or talk about my opinions on the movies or go into the nerdy shit with anyone. Is there nothing I can do and does anyone else have stories of the moderators being complete scumbags like this?
I know who the moderators are despite the fact that they try to hide it. The mod who did this was:
u/GaylienUFO
If anyone has any information on how to get these guys back or out of power then please help.
I have photos of my OG post, my conversation with the mod, and my ban messages.
Permabanned from r/marvelstudiosBasically I posted a review of Thor 4 criticizing it and calling it a terrible film. The post got a lot of engagement through comments and I had good discussion. It didn’t get a lot of upvotes obviously but I knew that would happen and I sorta wanted to kick the hornets nest and debate people who loved Thor 4 passionately. I assumed posting anything about the MCU, especially opinions, would be fine considering it’s an MCU subreddit but suddenly 2 hours after being posted it is removed for redundancy/repetitiveness. This is rule 3 on the subreddit and it is apparently applied for 6 months.
The post I made had me questioning how Thor 4 was even made because it was so bad. I looked through the last 6 months on the subreddit to find posts criticizing Thor 4 and legit couldn’t find a single one that was negative. I explained this to the moderator and tried to appeal the post being deleted. The moderator provided a post from the last six months as an example to how my post was redundant but the post he gave was a positive Thor post. I again said how my post was not the same as that and that there seems to be some power tripping here. Then after I said that I got muted from messaging moderators.
I then commented on a few posts on the subreddit calling out the moderators for their bullshit and saying that they should be called out for their bias. Then immediately after commenting that I was banned for seven days and then right after permabanned. What was I banned for exactly? I looked at their rules and the only one I could imagine would be trolling, but I wasn’t trolling. I was bringing up an actual point about the moderators and then zip immediately banned from one of my main subreddits I often visit and talk on. Zero warning and I didn’t break any community rules.
Wtf do I do now? I love going to this subreddit to talk about the MCU and now I can’t ever again. All because these stupid cunts moderating are in charge. I find it so stupid that these punks who allow racist BS to stay have complete control over me sharing my opinion on something I love on basically the only major subreddit that’s just for the MCU. Now I can’t converse with anyone or talk about my opinions on the movies or go into the nerdy shit with anyone. Is there nothing I can do and does anyone else have stories of the moderators being complete scumbags like this?
I know who the moderators are despite the fact that they try to hide it. The mod who did this was:
u/GaylienUFO
If anyone has any information on how to get these guys back or out of power then please help.
I have photos of my OG post, my conversation with the mod, and my ban messages.
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I was banned for "weirding out" a moderator?[Mod Message](https://imgur.com/a/7GizEZ1)
Seeking: to be unbanned IF I'm not in the wrong and clarification for my ban.
I posted in one of my local r4r-type subreddits when I was hit by a permaban without warning. The message said "every part" I made was weird, so I was quite surprised and a little confused because I wasn't sure what I did that violated the rules.
I asked for clarification (hopefully, I didn't come off as being rude) and he corrected his typo, but the only specification was that I "weirded him out". He promptly blocked me, preventing further communication.
Is this uncalled for, or is this ban enforceable? I understand that being a NSFW account invites a certain amount of suspicion, but I didn't think I was being weirder than anyone else on the sub.
I'll contest it if it's not too hard, but I don't mind if I can't use the sub anymore.
I was banned for "weirding out" a moderator?[Mod Message](https://imgur.com/a/7GizEZ1)
Seeking: to be unbanned IF I'm not in the wrong and clarification for my ban.
I posted in one of my local r4r-type subreddits when I was hit by a permaban without warning. The message said "every part" I made was weird, so I was quite surprised and a little confused because I wasn't sure what I did that violated the rules.
I asked for clarification (hopefully, I didn't come off as being rude) and he corrected his typo, but the only specification was that I "weirded him out". He promptly blocked me, preventing further communication.
Is this uncalled for, or is this ban enforceable? I understand that being a NSFW account invites a certain amount of suspicion, but I didn't think I was being weirder than anyone else on the sub.
I'll contest it if it's not too hard, but I don't mind if I can't use the sub anymore.
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I was banned for "weirding out" a moderator?[Mod Message](https://imgur.com/a/7GizEZ1)
Seeking: to be unbanned IF I'm not in the wrong and clarification for my ban.
I posted in one of my local r4r-type subreddits when I was hit by a permaban without warning. The message said "every part" I made was weird, so I was quite surprised and a little confused because I wasn't sure what I did that violated the rules.
I asked for clarification (hopefully, I didn't come off as being rude) and he corrected his typo, but the only specification was that I "weirded him out". He promptly blocked me, preventing further communication.
Is this uncalled for, or is this ban enforceable? I understand that being a NSFW account invites a certain amount of suspicion, but I didn't think I was being weirder than anyone else on the sub.
I'll contest it if it's not too hard, but I don't mind if I can't use the sub anymore.
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My personal take is that OP is possibly coming here in bad faith, and this possibly could have been asked to be amended... but having said that, I trust the mods here to handle any such issues.
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This is a bit of a tangled ball of yarn, isn't it? I will delve partly into the political side of things for my comment, I am afraid. However, I think it is necessary in order to not only educate you, the OP in terms of seeing it from the moderating team's view, but also others reading this thread. Please let me know if I break the rules, mods.
Based off your comments, you *were* banned for promoting a right-wing extremist group. No need for quotation marks here, I believe this to be the case. Now, there doesn't seem to be a listed set of guidelines or rules, but all subreddits are held to account by 'master rules' dictated by Reddit itself. As you have so kindly noted, there exists a rule for harassment, which I shall quote below:
>We do not tolerate the harassment, threatening, or bullying of people on our site; nor do we tolerate communities dedicated to this behavior.
>Reddit is a place for conversation, and in that context, we define this behavior as anything that works to shut someone out of the conversation through intimidation or abuse, online or off. Depending on the context, this can take on a range of forms, from directing unwanted invective at someone to following them from subreddit to subreddit, just to name a few. Behavior can be harassing or abusive regardless of whether it occurs in public content (e.g. a post, comment, username, subreddit name, subreddit styling, sidebar materials, etc.) or private messages/chat.
>Being annoying, downvoting, or disagreeing with someone, even strongly, is not harassment. However, menacing someone, directing abuse at a person or group, following them around the site, encouraging others to do any of these actions, or otherwise behaving in a way that would discourage a reasonable person from participating on Reddit crosses the line.
The question is, can your comments and behavior in the OSR subreddit be considered a breach of this rule? That required me to look at your comment history, and based off these quotes:
>1) I guess it was inevitable for Antifa to stick their noses into the hobby.
>2) "Punch Nazis" and "Bash Fash" are slogans proliferated by the domestic terrorist Antifa and associated cowardly ilk. They don't even go after actual Nazis, because the actual white supremacists would fight back.
>3) Show me one example of Nazis. Seriously. And not "Anyone I don't agree with." I have one: [Ukraine's Azov Battalion](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Regiment)
>4) But BLM is basically a Marxist domestic terror organization set on overthrowing the nuclear family and destabilizing the government, that has *ZERO* to do with making black lives better in any way.
>5) And you live in fantasy of your own design if you think the Oathkeepers are some sort of evil boogeymen.
All of these *can* constitute a breach of the rule above. While you did not inflame the situation to begin with, you did jump into it and make things more complicated to handle. Instead of simply shaking your head at a random Redditor's foolishness, you decided to jump into the situation at hand and turn the comment thread into a political battleground with points that in general society, would be seen as white supremacist talking points. I won't go into specifics of whether that perception is justified, because it isn't the point I'm trying to make here.
But consider this from a moderator's point of view: If someone starts slinging around talking points related to white supremacy and alt-right extremism, while admitting membership of a group very publicly linked to instances of domestic terrorism, going all the way up to its founder (not to mention bringing up the war between Ukraine and Russia, which is another complicated geopolitical situation liable to cause yet *another* flame war on top of the first.)... they have a very good justification for banning you and seeing if they will provide further justification for a ban.
What you did was provide further justification:
>OK isn't a right-wing extremist group.
Should a moderator take you at your word, or the various media outlets and law enforcement organizations that will disagree? Maybe you witnessed a group that was kind, just and fostered a great sense of community, but as a brief Google click shows, that isn't the case anymore. That isn't mentioning either the unfortunate optics of being a sympathizer with domestic terrorists, which undoubtedly would have been said had they not summarily banned you. Or even that the OSR subreddit explicitly supports anti-fascism, as your linked thread mentioned. Removing you from the conversation via banning was in my opinion, a necessary move given all of that context. You weren't playing ball with the mods, so escorting you out of the playground was the only option.
Their being dismissive to you in modmail was a clear sign they did not wish to engage in a conversation. By then, you'd made it very clear about your stance—and contrary to popular opinion, moderators *don't* have to treat ban appeals like a court case where the one who makes the best argument wins. It's up to you to convince them to unban you. Oftentimes, bans are 'tests' in that the appeal is a way for mods to see if the banned user will act in good faith in a private, 1-to-1 conversation. You didn't pass this test, and I think from the replies it's very unlikely you ever will. The bridges are well and truly burned here, and I would advise that you take it as a learning moment.
Some other points I'd like to address that weren't quite as important, but I think deserve a mention:
>However, in doxxing that information and dragging it into the thread
You were not doxxed. Your Reddit profile is public, and any information there is public information. People interact (or choose not to) by checking context clues to give them a better understanding. Just as you wouldn't strike up a conversation with a dodgy-looking person in a dark alley eyeing that expensive ring on your finger, a random Redditor might choose to not engage with you (or call you out on your stance) based off public statements you've given.
If you don't want it to be public knowledge, delete your comments. Or better yet, don't comment about it at all (because pushshift can still dredge deleted comments up) on Reddit. If you look through my history, you can find that I'm a soccer fan. That isn't doxxing me, that's me putting out information about myself that someone else can peruse.
>I was the direct target of that behavior - the whole description applies to the way I was treated, not only by community users, but also by the moderators. And they had the gall to report me to Reddit?
The important point here is not 'they reported me to Reddit'. Rather, it is that Reddit saw the report and *agreed* with them—you were violating site-wide rules. And this is far more important than a subreddit permaban, because it means that you got off with the proverbial slap on the wrist from the Reddit admins, and therefore we can be here to advise you against making remarks defending what is widely acknowledged to be a right-wing extremist group. Reddit themselves have told you 'no', to continue otherwise risks a permanent suspension of your account.
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Does Reddit Blindly Accept Reports From Mods?My question simply is, did reddit blindly accept the report because a moderator reported me, or was this simply reddit stating that they had received a report but and instead are reminding me to be careful not to receive any future reports?I was banned from the gaming circlejerk subreddit (my mistake for being there to begin with). I was trying to be humorous by mentioning that I was enjoying the new hogwarts game (which that sub has a vendetta against), but that I am also into trans people (which I referred to as traps, which I've seen is used in good light by straight people who are into trans). I asked if that would cancel out any transphobia for playing the game. [Here is the comment for proper context](https://www.unddit.com/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/11458bh/comment/j8wf3jp)
It appears that my joke quickly rubbed off the wrong way, and I was banned from the subreddit. The next day I get a message from reddit itself saying
>The Reddit admin team has been alerted that you’ve violated Reddit’s rule against promoting hate in the following content.
It goes into more details saying that if I am reported further, "additional actions" including banning may be taken against my account.
So it appears that these goofball mods from the sub reported my comment to reddit. If you were to read my comment, you would see that no where in there was I promoting hate. Sure, I can see why the ban from the subreddit itself is justified, but I do not see how a report to reddit itself for hate is justified. So I was wondering if reddit confirmed I was promoting hate, or if it's just a notification due to the report.
Does Reddit Blindly Accept Reports From Mods?My question simply is, did reddit blindly accept the report because a moderator reported me, or was this simply reddit stating that they had received a report but and instead are reminding me to be careful not to receive any future reports?I was banned from the gaming circlejerk subreddit (my mistake for being there to begin with). I was trying to be humorous by mentioning that I was enjoying the new hogwarts game (which that sub has a vendetta against), but that I am also into trans people (which I referred to as traps, which I've seen is used in good light by straight people who are into trans). I asked if that would cancel out any transphobia for playing the game. [Here is the comment for proper context](https://www.unddit.com/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/11458bh/comment/j8wf3jp)
It appears that my joke quickly rubbed off the wrong way, and I was banned from the subreddit. The next day I get a message from reddit itself saying
>The Reddit admin team has been alerted that you’ve violated Reddit’s rule against promoting hate in the following content.
It goes into more details saying that if I am reported further, "additional actions" including banning may be taken against my account.
So it appears that these goofball mods from the sub reported my comment to reddit. If you were to read my comment, you would see that no where in there was I promoting hate. Sure, I can see why the ban from the subreddit itself is justified, but I do not see how a report to reddit itself for hate is justified. So I was wondering if reddit confirmed I was promoting hate, or if it's just a notification due to the report.
*Please note that my comment is not intended to be taken as a final judgment upon the OP, or the mod team in question, or indeed, even as judgment. My comments will solely be based off my experience as a moderator on various online communities over the past decade.*
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This is a bit of a tangled ball of yarn, isn't it? I will delve partly into the political side of things for my comment, I am afraid. However, I think it is necessary in order to not only educate you, the OP in terms of seeing it from the moderating team's view, but also others reading this thread. Please let me know if I break the rules, mods.
Based off your comments, you *were* banned for promoting a right-wing extremist group. No need for quotation marks here, I believe this to be the case. Now, there doesn't seem to be a listed set of guidelines or rules, but all subreddits are held to account by 'master rules' dictated by Reddit itself. As you have so kindly noted, there exists a rule for harassment, which I shall quote below:
>We do not tolerate the harassment, threatening, or bullying of people on our site; nor do we tolerate communities dedicated to this behavior.
>Reddit is a place for conversation, and in that context, we define this behavior as anything that works to shut someone out of the conversation through intimidation or abuse, online or off. Depending on the context, this can take on a range of forms, from directing unwanted invective at someone to following them from subreddit to subreddit, just to name a few. Behavior can be harassing or abusive regardless of whether it occurs in public content (e.g. a post, comment, username, subreddit name, subreddit styling, sidebar materials, etc.) or private messages/chat.
>Being annoying, downvoting, or disagreeing with someone, even strongly, is not harassment. However, menacing someone, directing abuse at a person or group, following them around the site, encouraging others to do any of these actions, or otherwise behaving in a way that would discourage a reasonable person from participating on Reddit crosses the line.
The question is, can your comments and behavior in the OSR subreddit be considered a breach of this rule? That required me to look at your comment history, and based off these quotes:
>1) I guess it was inevitable for Antifa to stick their noses into the hobby.
>2) "Punch Nazis" and "Bash Fash" are slogans proliferated by the domestic terrorist Antifa and associated cowardly ilk. They don't even go after actual Nazis, because the actual white supremacists would fight back.
>3) Show me one example of Nazis. Seriously. And not "Anyone I don't agree with." I have one: [Ukraine's Azov Battalion](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Regiment)
>4) But BLM is basically a Marxist domestic terror organization set on overthrowing the nuclear family and destabilizing the government, that has *ZERO* to do with making black lives better in any way.
>5) And you live in fantasy of your own design if you think the Oathkeepers are some sort of evil boogeymen.
All of these *can* constitute a breach of the rule above. While you did not inflame the situation to begin with, you did jump into it and make things more complicated to handle. Instead of simply shaking your head at a random Redditor's foolishness, you decided to jump into the situation at hand and turn the comment thread into a political battleground with points that in general society, would be seen as white supremacist talking points. I won't go into specifics of whether that perception is justified, because it isn't the point I'm trying to make here.
But consider this from a moderator's point of view: If someone starts slinging around talking points related to white supremacy and alt-right extremism, while admitting membership of a group very publicly linked to instances of domestic terrorism, going all the way up to its founder (not to mention bringing up the war between Ukraine and Russia, which is another complicated geopolitical situation liable to cause yet *another* flame war on top of the first.)... they have a very good justification for banning you and seeing if they will provide further justification for a ban.
What you did was provide further justification:
>OK isn't a right-wing extremist group.
Should a moderator take you at your word, or the various media outlets and law enforcement organizations that will disagree? Maybe you witnessed a group that was kind, just and fostered a great sense of community, but as a brief Google click shows, that isn't the case anymore. That isn't mentioning either the unfortunate optics of being a sympathizer with domestic terrorists, which undoubtedly would have been said had they not summarily banned you. Or even that the OSR subreddit explicitly supports anti-fascism, as your linked thread mentioned. Removing you from the conversation via banning was in my opinion, a necessary move given all of that context. You weren't playing ball with the mods, so escorting you out of the playground was the only option.
Their being dismissive to you in modmail was a clear sign they did not wish to engage in a conversation. By then, you'd made it very clear about your stance—and contrary to popular opinion, moderators *don't* have to treat ban appeals like a court case where the one who makes the best argument wins. It's up to you to convince them to unban you. Oftentimes, bans are 'tests' in that the appeal is a way for mods to see if the banned user will act in good faith in a private, 1-to-1 conversation. You didn't pass this test, and I think from the replies it's very unlikely you ever will. The bridges are well and truly burned here, and I would advise that you take it as a learning moment.
Some other points I'd like to address that weren't quite as important, but I think deserve a mention:
>However, in doxxing that information and dragging it into the thread
You were not doxxed. Your Reddit profile is public, and any information there is public information. People interact (or choose not to) by checking context clues to give them a better understanding. Just as you wouldn't strike up a conversation with a dodgy-looking person in a dark alley eyeing that expensive ring on your finger, a random Redditor might choose to not engage with you (or call you out on your stance) based off public statements you've given.
If you don't want it to be public knowledge, delete your comments. Or better yet, don't comment about it at all (because pushshift can still dredge deleted comments up) on Reddit. If you look through my history, you can find that I'm a soccer fan. That isn't doxxing me, that's me putting out information about myself that someone else can peruse.
>I was the direct target of that behavior - the whole description applies to the way I was treated, not only by community users, but also by the moderators. And they had the gall to report me to Reddit?
The important point here is not 'they reported me to Reddit'. Rather, it is that Reddit saw the report and *agreed* with them—you were violating site-wide rules. And this is far more important than a subreddit permaban, because it means that you got off with the proverbial slap on the wrist from the Reddit admins, and therefore we can be here to advise you against making remarks defending what is widely acknowledged to be a right-wing extremist group. Reddit themselves have told you 'no', to continue otherwise risks a permanent suspension of your account.
Does Reddit Blindly Accept Reports From Mods?My question simply is, did reddit blindly accept the report because a moderator reported me, or was this simply reddit stating that they had received a report but and instead are reminding me to be careful not to receive any future reports?I was banned from the gaming circlejerk subreddit (my mistake for being there to begin with). I was trying to be humorous by mentioning that I was enjoying the new hogwarts game (which that sub has a vendetta against), but that I am also into trans people (which I referred to as traps, which I've seen is used in good light by straight people who are into trans). I asked if that would cancel out any transphobia for playing the game. [Here is the comment for proper context](https://www.unddit.com/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/11458bh/comment/j8wf3jp)
It appears that my joke quickly rubbed off the wrong way, and I was banned from the subreddit. The next day I get a message from reddit itself saying
>The Reddit admin team has been alerted that you’ve violated Reddit’s rule against promoting hate in the following content.
It goes into more details saying that if I am reported further, "additional actions" including banning may be taken against my account.
So it appears that these goofball mods from the sub reported my comment to reddit. If you were to read my comment, you would see that no where in there was I promoting hate. Sure, I can see why the ban from the subreddit itself is justified, but I do not see how a report to reddit itself for hate is justified. So I was wondering if reddit confirmed I was promoting hate, or if it's just a notification due to the report.
Does Reddit Blindly Accept Reports From Mods?My question simply is, did reddit blindly accept the report because a moderator reported me, or was this simply reddit stating that they had received a report but and instead are reminding me to be careful not to receive any future reports?I was banned from the gaming circlejerk subreddit (my mistake for being there to begin with). I was trying to be humorous by mentioning that I was enjoying the new hogwarts game (which that sub has a vendetta against), but that I am also into trans people (which I referred to as traps, which I've seen is used in good light by straight people who are into trans). I asked if that would cancel out any transphobia for playing the game. [Here is the comment for proper context](https://www.unddit.com/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/11458bh/comment/j8wf3jp)
It appears that my joke quickly rubbed off the wrong way, and I was banned from the subreddit. The next day I get a message from reddit itself saying
>The Reddit admin team has been alerted that you’ve violated Reddit’s rule against promoting hate in the following content.
It goes into more details saying that if I am reported further, "additional actions" including banning may be taken against my account.
So it appears that these goofball mods from the sub reported my comment to reddit. If you were to read my comment, you would see that no where in there was I promoting hate. Sure, I can see why the ban from the subreddit itself is justified, but I do not see how a report to reddit itself for hate is justified. So I was wondering if reddit confirmed I was promoting hate, or if it's just a notification due to the report.
My personal take is that OP is possibly coming here in bad faith, and this possibly could have been asked to be amended... but having said that, I trust the mods here to handle any such issues.
Banned with no explanation, after posting a thread about my personal experiencesWhat I am seeking: To be unbanned from r/Teachers
I am seeking: To be unbanned
What happened: I posted a thread about my experiences dealing with racism as a first-generation immigrant teacher. My thread was at first accepted, [but then it was later deleted by the mods, and I was given a ban with no explanation](https://imgur.com/a/dw5867L). I believe this ban was unfair as I didn't actually violate any of the rules of the subreddit.
Here is a reveddit version of the thread. I do not believe my initial post broke any rules. [https://www.reveddit.com/v/Teachers/comments/110f78r/if\_you\_are\_a\_minority\_or\_1stgeneration\_immigrant/?removedby=mod%2Canti\_evil\_ops](https://www.reveddit.com/v/Teachers/comments/110f78r/if_you_are_a_minority_or_1stgeneration_immigrant/?removedby=mod%2Canti_evil_ops)
This is what happens when we have little time - we (mostly me) don't have the time to truly vet posts. And when that happens I'll always lean in favor of OP.
I was banned for "weirding out" a moderator?[Mod Message](https://imgur.com/a/7GizEZ1)
Seeking: to be unbanned IF I'm not in the wrong and clarification for my ban.
I posted in one of my local r4r-type subreddits when I was hit by a permaban without warning. The message said "every part" I made was weird, so I was quite surprised and a little confused because I wasn't sure what I did that violated the rules.
I asked for clarification (hopefully, I didn't come off as being rude) and he corrected his typo, but the only specification was that I "weirded him out". He promptly blocked me, preventing further communication.
Is this uncalled for, or is this ban enforceable? I understand that being a NSFW account invites a certain amount of suspicion, but I didn't think I was being weirder than anyone else on the sub.
I'll contest it if it's not too hard, but I don't mind if I can't use the sub anymore.
I was banned for "weirding out" a moderator?[Mod Message](https://imgur.com/a/7GizEZ1)
Seeking: to be unbanned IF I'm not in the wrong and clarification for my ban.
I posted in one of my local r4r-type subreddits when I was hit by a permaban without warning. The message said "every part" I made was weird, so I was quite surprised and a little confused because I wasn't sure what I did that violated the rules.
I asked for clarification (hopefully, I didn't come off as being rude) and he corrected his typo, but the only specification was that I "weirded him out". He promptly blocked me, preventing further communication.
Is this uncalled for, or is this ban enforceable? I understand that being a NSFW account invites a certain amount of suspicion, but I didn't think I was being weirder than anyone else on the sub.
I'll contest it if it's not too hard, but I don't mind if I can't use the sub anymore.
Banned from /r/gunners for trolling after I made a banter joke commentI have been banned for trolling first after just made a banter joke comment /r/gunners and when I asked why am I banned their response you want to know why we don't want a serial troll in multiple teams subreddits on our sub? really? Lol then I received 28 days mute I was shocked and disappointed are trying to aggressively on me or bullying me without no reason 🙁
Banned from /r/gunners for trolling after I made a banter joke commentI have been banned for trolling first after just made a banter joke comment /r/gunners and when I asked why am I banned their response you want to know why we don't want a serial troll in multiple teams subreddits on our sub? really? Lol then I received 28 days mute I was shocked and disappointed are trying to aggressively on me or bullying me without no reason 🙁
Banned with no explanation, after posting a thread about my personal experiencesWhat I am seeking: To be unbanned from r/Teachers
I am seeking: To be unbanned
What happened: I posted a thread about my experiences dealing with racism as a first-generation immigrant teacher. My thread was at first accepted, [but then it was later deleted by the mods, and I was given a ban with no explanation](https://imgur.com/a/dw5867L). I believe this ban was unfair as I didn't actually violate any of the rules of the subreddit.
Here is a reveddit version of the thread. I do not believe my initial post broke any rules. [https://www.reveddit.com/v/Teachers/comments/110f78r/if\_you\_are\_a\_minority\_or\_1stgeneration\_immigrant/?removedby=mod%2Canti\_evil\_ops](https://www.reveddit.com/v/Teachers/comments/110f78r/if_you_are_a_minority_or_1stgeneration_immigrant/?removedby=mod%2Canti_evil_ops)
Banned with no explanation, after posting a thread about my personal experiencesWhat I am seeking: To be unbanned from r/Teachers
I am seeking: To be unbanned
What happened: I posted a thread about my experiences dealing with racism as a first-generation immigrant teacher. My thread was at first accepted, [but then it was later deleted by the mods, and I was given a ban with no explanation](https://imgur.com/a/dw5867L). I believe this ban was unfair as I didn't actually violate any of the rules of the subreddit.
Here is a reveddit version of the thread. I do not believe my initial post broke any rules. [https://www.reveddit.com/v/Teachers/comments/110f78r/if\_you\_are\_a\_minority\_or\_1stgeneration\_immigrant/?removedby=mod%2Canti\_evil\_ops](https://www.reveddit.com/v/Teachers/comments/110f78r/if_you_are_a_minority_or_1stgeneration_immigrant/?removedby=mod%2Canti_evil_ops)
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Banned for "Promoting a Right-Wing Extremist Group"**I am seeking:** restoration into the OSR subreddit and for a response from the mods other than a knee-jerk "K."
**What happened:** A member on the OSR subreddit posted a [highly inflammatory and confrontational post](https://np.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/10zy5fo/new_patches_in_our_webstore/) while trying to garner sales for a patch he'd created. The patch said, "Punch Nazis Roll Dice" and the OP was laying on very heavy rhetoric in the comments. The community was divided between the "hell yeah, punch nazis and bash fascists, kick them out of the hobby" crowd and the "We shouldn't be promoting assaulting anyone based on differing ideology, especially when labeling is often used as an excuse" crowd.
Anyone against the "assaulting people" mindset was labeled as a Nazi, Nazi sympathizer, fascist, bigot, etc. Discourse to the contrary was shut down with hyperbolic ad-hom. Don't take my word for it, peruse the comments at your leisure.
At some point in the discourse, users began dredging my profile for reasons to shut me down, such as posting on conservative-based subreddits (because, surprise, I'm a republican conservative).
In the interest of full disclosure, I also subscribed to a membership with the Oathkeepers back in, eh, around 2010 (shortly after I'd gotten out of the military). Their tenets then (and now, as far as I can tell) were to resist unjust laws and orders issued by the U.S. Government, and to focus on building, sustaining, and supporting our communities in times of distress. Obviously, some of the OK leadership have been drug through the mud in the media for the last couple of years - which I don't have a comment on, as it has nothing to do with me or those tenets.
I have no problem discussing this with people when they ask or when it comes up because, again, nothing to hide because I've done nothing wrong - not that you'd think that if you read the Wikipedia page on the Oathkeepers, though. I'm used to being harassed because I'm a conservative, because I liked Donald Trump, or because I vote red. Nothing new.
However, in doxxing that information and dragging it into the thread, I was also (apparently) reported and summarily permabanned from OSR for "promoting a right-wing extremist organization on a TTRPG site."
I wasn't. Not only did I not promote anything of the such - defending my own actions and choices when directly attacked hardly counts - but the subreddit doesn't (or didn't) have any explicit rules against discussing political-themed topics (which is presumed because the OP created the post that he did \*and\* the conversation went on for about a full day before the mods decided to lock it). They also posted a [thread](https://np.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/110it6x/please_message_the_mods_prior_to_posting_any/) dealing with the controversy after the fact.
Again, in the interest of full disclosure, I have never nor would I ever support Nazi or fascist ideology. What I was attempting to convey was the rhetoric used in "Punch Nazis" is the same mindset used to label people who you don't agree with or like as "Nazi" or "fascist" or whatever, so you can feel justified in assaulting them and instigating or encouraging violence towards them. It's dangerous rhetoric that gets people hurt and killed, and it's ignorant and stupid. I said as much - and, again, you can read the results for yourself.
So, as to the ban itself: [This is a screencap of the interaction between me and the mods](https://ibb.co/nwCqBs5) when I was perma-banned for the alleged reason. I admit to being heated and frustrated - it doesn't matter how many times you get banned from a place because you have a difference in views or opinion, rather than actual misconduct, it still frustrates you - but I still feel like the things I said - while a bit heated - were still fairly tame. The one-word dismissive responses - "K." - were condescending and immature, however.
I'd have let it go - again, not my first rodeo, even if I really liked the community - but then the moderation crew [reported me to Reddit for "harassment"](https://ibb.co/cQdyJhX) \- linking the mod mail chat regarding the ban - with the following snippet:
"Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for harassing or bullying people. We don't tolerate any behaviors that discourage others from participating in communities, conversations, or the Reddit platform through harassment, bullying, intimidation, or abuse. Any communities or people that incite or engage in harassment or abuse towards an individual or group will be banned."
***I*** was the direct target of that behavior - the whole description applies to the way I was treated, not only by community users, but also by the moderators. And they had the gall to report *me* to Reddit?
I don't honestly expect them to un-ban me. Mods notoriously lean towards hatred of being called out for anything and being prone to power abuse. Still, I enjoyed the community and I don't feel I was treated or handled fairly *in the least* \- especially considering other users were being directly antagonistic, offensive, and abusive towards me. I want more of a resolution than what I received.
​
Edit: [An Unddit of the thread in question, for posterity.](https://www.unddit.com/r/osr/comments/10zy5fo/new_patches_in_our_webstore/) There were a host of deleted or removed comments.
Banned for "Promoting a Right-Wing Extremist Group"**I am seeking:** restoration into the OSR subreddit and for a response from the mods other than a knee-jerk "K."
**What happened:** A member on the OSR subreddit posted a [highly inflammatory and confrontational post](https://np.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/10zy5fo/new_patches_in_our_webstore/) while trying to garner sales for a patch he'd created. The patch said, "Punch Nazis Roll Dice" and the OP was laying on very heavy rhetoric in the comments. The community was divided between the "hell yeah, punch nazis and bash fascists, kick them out of the hobby" crowd and the "We shouldn't be promoting assaulting anyone based on differing ideology, especially when labeling is often used as an excuse" crowd.
Anyone against the "assaulting people" mindset was labeled as a Nazi, Nazi sympathizer, fascist, bigot, etc. Discourse to the contrary was shut down with hyperbolic ad-hom. Don't take my word for it, peruse the comments at your leisure.
At some point in the discourse, users began dredging my profile for reasons to shut me down, such as posting on conservative-based subreddits (because, surprise, I'm a republican conservative).
In the interest of full disclosure, I also subscribed to a membership with the Oathkeepers back in, eh, around 2010 (shortly after I'd gotten out of the military). Their tenets then (and now, as far as I can tell) were to resist unjust laws and orders issued by the U.S. Government, and to focus on building, sustaining, and supporting our communities in times of distress. Obviously, some of the OK leadership have been drug through the mud in the media for the last couple of years - which I don't have a comment on, as it has nothing to do with me or those tenets.
I have no problem discussing this with people when they ask or when it comes up because, again, nothing to hide because I've done nothing wrong - not that you'd think that if you read the Wikipedia page on the Oathkeepers, though. I'm used to being harassed because I'm a conservative, because I liked Donald Trump, or because I vote red. Nothing new.
However, in doxxing that information and dragging it into the thread, I was also (apparently) reported and summarily permabanned from OSR for "promoting a right-wing extremist organization on a TTRPG site."
I wasn't. Not only did I not promote anything of the such - defending my own actions and choices when directly attacked hardly counts - but the subreddit doesn't (or didn't) have any explicit rules against discussing political-themed topics (which is presumed because the OP created the post that he did \*and\* the conversation went on for about a full day before the mods decided to lock it). They also posted a [thread](https://np.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/110it6x/please_message_the_mods_prior_to_posting_any/) dealing with the controversy after the fact.
Again, in the interest of full disclosure, I have never nor would I ever support Nazi or fascist ideology. What I was attempting to convey was the rhetoric used in "Punch Nazis" is the same mindset used to label people who you don't agree with or like as "Nazi" or "fascist" or whatever, so you can feel justified in assaulting them and instigating or encouraging violence towards them. It's dangerous rhetoric that gets people hurt and killed, and it's ignorant and stupid. I said as much - and, again, you can read the results for yourself.
So, as to the ban itself: [This is a screencap of the interaction between me and the mods](https://ibb.co/nwCqBs5) when I was perma-banned for the alleged reason. I admit to being heated and frustrated - it doesn't matter how many times you get banned from a place because you have a difference in views or opinion, rather than actual misconduct, it still frustrates you - but I still feel like the things I said - while a bit heated - were still fairly tame. The one-word dismissive responses - "K." - were condescending and immature, however.
I'd have let it go - again, not my first rodeo, even if I really liked the community - but then the moderation crew [reported me to Reddit for "harassment"](https://ibb.co/cQdyJhX) \- linking the mod mail chat regarding the ban - with the following snippet:
"Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for harassing or bullying people. We don't tolerate any behaviors that discourage others from participating in communities, conversations, or the Reddit platform through harassment, bullying, intimidation, or abuse. Any communities or people that incite or engage in harassment or abuse towards an individual or group will be banned."
***I*** was the direct target of that behavior - the whole description applies to the way I was treated, not only by community users, but also by the moderators. And they had the gall to report *me* to Reddit?
I don't honestly expect them to un-ban me. Mods notoriously lean towards hatred of being called out for anything and being prone to power abuse. Still, I enjoyed the community and I don't feel I was treated or handled fairly *in the least* \- especially considering other users were being directly antagonistic, offensive, and abusive towards me. I want more of a resolution than what I received.
​
Edit: [An Unddit of the thread in question, for posterity.](https://www.unddit.com/r/osr/comments/10zy5fo/new_patches_in_our_webstore/) There were a host of deleted or removed comments.
Banned for "Promoting a Right-Wing Extremist Group"**I am seeking:** restoration into the OSR subreddit and for a response from the mods other than a knee-jerk "K."
**What happened:** A member on the OSR subreddit posted a [highly inflammatory and confrontational post](https://np.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/10zy5fo/new_patches_in_our_webstore/) while trying to garner sales for a patch he'd created. The patch said, "Punch Nazis Roll Dice" and the OP was laying on very heavy rhetoric in the comments. The community was divided between the "hell yeah, punch nazis and bash fascists, kick them out of the hobby" crowd and the "We shouldn't be promoting assaulting anyone based on differing ideology, especially when labeling is often used as an excuse" crowd.
Anyone against the "assaulting people" mindset was labeled as a Nazi, Nazi sympathizer, fascist, bigot, etc. Discourse to the contrary was shut down with hyperbolic ad-hom. Don't take my word for it, peruse the comments at your leisure.
At some point in the discourse, users began dredging my profile for reasons to shut me down, such as posting on conservative-based subreddits (because, surprise, I'm a republican conservative).
In the interest of full disclosure, I also subscribed to a membership with the Oathkeepers back in, eh, around 2010 (shortly after I'd gotten out of the military). Their tenets then (and now, as far as I can tell) were to resist unjust laws and orders issued by the U.S. Government, and to focus on building, sustaining, and supporting our communities in times of distress. Obviously, some of the OK leadership have been drug through the mud in the media for the last couple of years - which I don't have a comment on, as it has nothing to do with me or those tenets.
I have no problem discussing this with people when they ask or when it comes up because, again, nothing to hide because I've done nothing wrong - not that you'd think that if you read the Wikipedia page on the Oathkeepers, though. I'm used to being harassed because I'm a conservative, because I liked Donald Trump, or because I vote red. Nothing new.
However, in doxxing that information and dragging it into the thread, I was also (apparently) reported and summarily permabanned from OSR for "promoting a right-wing extremist organization on a TTRPG site."
I wasn't. Not only did I not promote anything of the such - defending my own actions and choices when directly attacked hardly counts - but the subreddit doesn't (or didn't) have any explicit rules against discussing political-themed topics (which is presumed because the OP created the post that he did \*and\* the conversation went on for about a full day before the mods decided to lock it). They also posted a [thread](https://np.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/110it6x/please_message_the_mods_prior_to_posting_any/) dealing with the controversy after the fact.
Again, in the interest of full disclosure, I have never nor would I ever support Nazi or fascist ideology. What I was attempting to convey was the rhetoric used in "Punch Nazis" is the same mindset used to label people who you don't agree with or like as "Nazi" or "fascist" or whatever, so you can feel justified in assaulting them and instigating or encouraging violence towards them. It's dangerous rhetoric that gets people hurt and killed, and it's ignorant and stupid. I said as much - and, again, you can read the results for yourself.
So, as to the ban itself: [This is a screencap of the interaction between me and the mods](https://ibb.co/nwCqBs5) when I was perma-banned for the alleged reason. I admit to being heated and frustrated - it doesn't matter how many times you get banned from a place because you have a difference in views or opinion, rather than actual misconduct, it still frustrates you - but I still feel like the things I said - while a bit heated - were still fairly tame. The one-word dismissive responses - "K." - were condescending and immature, however.
I'd have let it go - again, not my first rodeo, even if I really liked the community - but then the moderation crew [reported me to Reddit for "harassment"](https://ibb.co/cQdyJhX) \- linking the mod mail chat regarding the ban - with the following snippet:
"Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for harassing or bullying people. We don't tolerate any behaviors that discourage others from participating in communities, conversations, or the Reddit platform through harassment, bullying, intimidation, or abuse. Any communities or people that incite or engage in harassment or abuse towards an individual or group will be banned."
***I*** was the direct target of that behavior - the whole description applies to the way I was treated, not only by community users, but also by the moderators. And they had the gall to report *me* to Reddit?
I don't honestly expect them to un-ban me. Mods notoriously lean towards hatred of being called out for anything and being prone to power abuse. Still, I enjoyed the community and I don't feel I was treated or handled fairly *in the least* \- especially considering other users were being directly antagonistic, offensive, and abusive towards me. I want more of a resolution than what I received.
​
Edit: [An Unddit of the thread in question, for posterity.](https://www.unddit.com/r/osr/comments/10zy5fo/new_patches_in_our_webstore/) There were a host of deleted or removed comments.
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I have been banned for trolling first my reaction it's nonsense after just a banter joke comment lol /r/gunners and when I asked why am I banned and received 28 days mute wow I wonder why /r/gunners mod They aren’t paid or anything so it’s just a bunch of unintelligent toxic
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Banned from /r/gunners
I have been banned for trolling first my reaction it's nonsense after just a banter joke comment lol /r/gunners and when I asked why am I banned and received 28 days mute wow I wonder why /r/gunners mod They aren’t paid or anything so it’s just a bunch of unintelligent toxic
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Reddit Mod InsultForewarning: Slightly longer post. TLDR just stick to the first paragraph, I guess
I posted a question over on r/ROTC with explanations. Maybe it was because I didn’t directly say it was a dumb question but all I was asking for was assurance because I was in a bad overthinking situation. I get the comment “You’re being an idiot” with a very sarcastic statement of the obvious. But you’d think the added insult was really unnecessary? They acted like I should have automatically known EVERYTHING the moment I joined. I’ve only been enrolled for a week less than a month
This part digresses a little but I explained in my post that the cadre (guys in charge, basically) make it feel like the program is almost authoritarianism/totalitarianism. Not entirely but they indicated that “we have control over your life now, even if you’re uncontracted.” Maybe they’re just some military geek/nerd know-it-all high on red bull :/
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I posted a question over on r/ROTC with explanations. Maybe it was because I didn’t directly say it was a dumb question but all I was asking for was assurance because I was in a bad overthinking situation. I get the comment “You’re being an idiot” with a very sarcastic statement of the obvious. But you’d think the added insult was really unnecessary? They acted like I should have automatically known EVERYTHING the moment I joined. I’ve only been enrolled for a week less than a month
This part digresses a little but I explained in my post that the cadre (guys in charge, basically) make it feel like the program is almost authoritarianism/totalitarianism. Not entirely but they indicated that “we have control over your life now, even if you’re uncontracted.” Maybe they’re just some military geek/nerd know-it-all high on red bull :/
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I was permabanned for making a "weird" post. When asked for details, the mod told me I "weirded him out" and muted me[Mod Message](Banned https://imgur.com/a/7GizEZ1)
Normally, I don't take these things personally, but this time it felt a little... personal.
For context, I post in local hookup subs like this and there's plenty of questionable content (and I'm no exception). I was surprised, however, when I was suddenly *permanently* banned without prior warning and told that it was because I was making weird "parts".
I wasn't quite sure what he meant, so I asked for a little more clarification on what "parts" were "weird". He responded by telling me it was just a typo (he meant posts), but also followed up by saying "you weird me out" and promptly muted me.
Among my questions are: is this a reasonable ban? If the mod is out of line, I'd like to contest it if possible. Otherwise, I'm content to being banned forever from a sub where I've never had success anyway. I won't make a big deal if it's not worth the effort.
I was permabanned for making a "weird" post. When asked for details, the mod told me I "weirded him out" and muted me[Mod Message](Banned https://imgur.com/a/7GizEZ1)
Normally, I don't take these things personally, but this time it felt a little... personal.
For context, I post in local hookup subs like this and there's plenty of questionable content (and I'm no exception). I was surprised, however, when I was suddenly *permanently* banned without prior warning and told that it was because I was making weird "parts".
I wasn't quite sure what he meant, so I asked for a little more clarification on what "parts" were "weird". He responded by telling me it was just a typo (he meant posts), but also followed up by saying "you weird me out" and promptly muted me.
Among my questions are: is this a reasonable ban? If the mod is out of line, I'd like to contest it if possible. Otherwise, I'm content to being banned forever from a sub where I've never had success anyway. I won't make a big deal if it's not worth the effort.
Banned from /r/gunners
Banned from /r/gunners
I have been banned for trolling first my reaction it's nonsense after just a banter joke comment lol /r/gunners and when I asked why am I banned and received 28 days mute wow I wonder why /r/gunners mod They aren’t paid or anything so it’s just a bunch of unintelligent toxic
Banned from /r/gunners
Banned from /r/gunners
I have been banned for trolling first my reaction it's nonsense after just a banter joke comment lol /r/gunners and when I asked why am I banned and received 28 days mute wow I wonder why /r/gunners mod They aren’t paid or anything so it’s just a bunch of unintelligent toxic
I was permabanned for making a "weird" post. When asked for details, the mod told me I "weirded him out" and muted me[Mod Message](Banned https://imgur.com/a/7GizEZ1)
Normally, I don't take these things personally, but this time it felt a little... personal.
For context, I post in local hookup subs like this and there's plenty of questionable content (and I'm no exception). I was surprised, however, when I was suddenly *permanently* banned without prior warning and told that it was because I was making weird "parts".
I wasn't quite sure what he meant, so I asked for a little more clarification on what "parts" were "weird". He responded by telling me it was just a typo (he meant posts), but also followed up by saying "you weird me out" and promptly muted me.
Among my questions are: is this a reasonable ban? If the mod is out of line, I'd like to contest it if possible. Otherwise, I'm content to being banned forever from a sub where I've never had success anyway. I won't make a big deal if it's not worth the effort.
I was permabanned for making a "weird" post. When asked for details, the mod told me I "weirded him out" and muted me[Mod Message](Banned https://imgur.com/a/7GizEZ1)
Normally, I don't take these things personally, but this time it felt a little... personal.
For context, I post in local hookup subs like this and there's plenty of questionable content (and I'm no exception). I was surprised, however, when I was suddenly *permanently* banned without prior warning and told that it was because I was making weird "parts".
I wasn't quite sure what he meant, so I asked for a little more clarification on what "parts" were "weird". He responded by telling me it was just a typo (he meant posts), but also followed up by saying "you weird me out" and promptly muted me.
Among my questions are: is this a reasonable ban? If the mod is out of line, I'd like to contest it if possible. Otherwise, I'm content to being banned forever from a sub where I've never had success anyway. I won't make a big deal if it's not worth the effort.
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> But from reading this sub it seems not many other people believe this. I see many instances here where a mod has punished before ensuring that guilt has been proved. And then it's up to the user to either prove their innocence or just get on their knees and apologize. This is the opposite of how society functions.
This sub seems created to gaslight users into groveling apologies for mods, no matter their power-craze, arbitrariness and pettiness level.
I think I can say that my experience in this sub, as a poster, has been mostly (not entirely) unpleasant and unproductive - from personal attacks on me, to assumptions about my character, to comments that seem to be more interested in “what are you entitled to” than what is a best practice in moderating.
This post was as an experiment, and not all experiments work out as intended. This may well be removed, but I’ll leave this in the interest of community feedback: kindness costs nothing.
Unless something changes, I wouldn’t recommend others engage here.
Arrête d'effacer tes messages, c'est pas très respectueux pour le sous-reddit.
Arrête d'effacer tes messages, c'est pas très respectueux pour le sous-reddit.
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Works for me. Thanks.
It's Carnival!And the 2 lead mods live in places that care about this. So this weekend thru Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) the sub will be very very slow to respond.
It's Carnival!And the 2 lead mods live in places that care about this. So this weekend thru Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) the sub will be very very slow to respond.
It's Carnival!And the 2 lead mods live in places that care about this. So this weekend thru Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday) the sub will be very very slow to respond.
Thanks for letting us know!
Works for me. Thanks.
Given that the user came here *in good faith* (which is a first for us), I spoke with the mods that were involved since I wasn’t and we agreed to reduce the ban to a month.
First, I appreciate you owning up to the fact that what you responded with was inappropriate. It's refreshing to not see a bunch of rationalizing a mistake.
Having said that, I'm not sure you are going to get out of this. The fact that Reddit gave you a 3 day time-out is telling on how they view your comment. That gives the moderators a huge basis for denying your appeal. If you violate Reddit's ToS, moderators are obligated to report you. Seeing that Reddit agreed with the report...
I'll be honest, I wouldn't let you back in unless I felt like babysitting your posts/comments. If I were to unban you, I'd set up the automod to filter out any post/comment you made, and require it to be manually approved. And you are a fairly prolific commenter to the subreddit, which would mean more for my team to navigate.
If you are going to appeal, you need to use that last paragraph as your starting point. Complete acceptance that your actions were wrong, followed by a sincere promise to not make any boneheaded mistake like that again. And expect your appeal to be a "one and done" type thing. You get one chance, and after that, you live with the consequences of your words.
I'll be honest, with a 28 day mute on top of a permaban, the chances of me reaching out again are 0%. I'm less worried about my situation and more about the people who still really need the support of that group but are under the same threat of erratic and unexplained moderation.
I'll be honest, with a 28 day mute on top of a permaban, the chances of me reaching out again are 0%. I'm less worried about my situation and more about the people who still really need the support of that group but are under the same threat of erratic and unexplained moderation.
Given that the user came here *in good faith* (which is a first for us), I spoke with the mods that were involved since I wasn’t and we agreed to reduce the ban to a month.
In reply to your edit.
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You seemed to have missed the point of our sub. As we can not directly affect other mod teams, we instead have chosen to focus on giving advice on what \*you\* can do. Which necessitates telling you how you can adjust and change (or choose not to).
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Honestly, the top comment in this sub is very good advice on where you made mistakes (which is the only thing you can correct), and gave you a reasonable explanation of why you may have been banned.
Banned with no explanation, and weeks later, an explanation that makes no sense.I am seeking: an opportunity to appeal/mediate this ban; alternately, an explanation for what behavior lead to this ban so that I can avoid it in the future.
What happened: almost a year ago, I was using Reddit as normal, and I received a ban message from r/worldnews [link to full modmail messages](https://imgur.com/a/qxppWo8) saying I had been banned, with no explanation of why.
This was confusing, because to my knowledge I had had no negative interactions on r/worldnews. So, I reached out to ask what was up, and received no response.
In hindsight, I did not need to follow up so quickly - however, I did so because I was concerned that my ban had been a mistake and that whoever had issued it would not remember why it had been issued (as I had no explanation or linked comment). When working with any busy team, advocating for yourself is essential.
A month after the initial ban message, I received a confusing response from the mod team: they accused me of being an antivaxxer and muted me.
This was the first contact I had received back from the mod team, and it was concerning. For background, I am a trained healthcare provider (pharmacist) and in the course of my career I have given thousands of vaccinations, and I am a firm advocate for vaccination on- and off-line.
An accusation like that was offensive to me on a personal and professional basis (particularly with what was going on at the time).
Despite their instructions, I felt compelled to share the above - because I am not an anti-vaxxer, never have been, and clearly some wires have gotten crossed somewhere, and i felt sure that if I could just talk somebody about it, we could straighten this whole thing out.
I did not hear back from the r/worldnews mod team for over six months (in hindsight, again, I would’ve been better off giving up), until I received another message, asking me to stop messaging the mods. I know it was stupid to respond, but I felt that now that I finally had contact with someone, I could explain my situation and get this problem resolved.
As you may imagine, I had no luck. I also received a suspension from Reddit (temporary) that day, which is pretty likely to be a direct result of a report from the r/worldnews mod team.
Broadly, my thoughts are: this whole process has been disheartening, and a bit disturbing, because I still have no idea what I did wrong - beyond an allegation that I know to be false. I understand now that repeated modmails can be considered harassment. However, it strikes me that it would be easier for all involved if someone had simply engaged with me from the start.
For my own learning, what can I do better in the future? I’ll start: learn to quit while you’re behind - and that there must be a better way to advocate for yourself, because what I’m doing clearly wasn’t working. I am interested in filing an appeal to reverse my ban, but do not wish to further jeopardize my account.
Edit: one week later
I think I can say that my experience in this sub, as a poster, has been mostly (not entirely) unpleasant and unproductive - from personal attacks on me, to assumptions about my character, to comments that seem to be more interested in “what are you entitled to” than what is a best practice in moderating.
This post was as an experiment, and not all experiments work out as intended. This may well be removed, but I’ll leave this in the interest of community feedback: kindness costs nothing.
Unless something changes, I wouldn’t recommend others engage here.
First, I appreciate you owning up to the fact that what you responded with was inappropriate. It's refreshing to not see a bunch of rationalizing a mistake.
Having said that, I'm not sure you are going to get out of this. The fact that Reddit gave you a 3 day time-out is telling on how they view your comment. That gives the moderators a huge basis for denying your appeal. If you violate Reddit's ToS, moderators are obligated to report you. Seeing that Reddit agreed with the report...
I'll be honest, I wouldn't let you back in unless I felt like babysitting your posts/comments. If I were to unban you, I'd set up the automod to filter out any post/comment you made, and require it to be manually approved. And you are a fairly prolific commenter to the subreddit, which would mean more for my team to navigate.
If you are going to appeal, you need to use that last paragraph as your starting point. Complete acceptance that your actions were wrong, followed by a sincere promise to not make any boneheaded mistake like that again. And expect your appeal to be a "one and done" type thing. You get one chance, and after that, you live with the consequences of your words.
I'll be honest, with a 28 day mute on top of a permaban, the chances of me reaching out again are 0%. I'm less worried about my situation and more about the people who still really need the support of that group but are under the same threat of erratic and unexplained moderation.
In response to your edit: your choice to argue incessantly in their defense *was your choice.* I didn’t come here to argue.
Your choice to continuously attack my character *is also your choice.* I didn’t invite you to make pronouncements about “my nature.”
You have asserted that I must consider situations from other points of view… while rejecting and invalidating my own.
You have asserted that I am *not allowed* to point out deficiencies in a system, without having a comprehensive plan in place to fix that system.
You seem to be operating under the assumption than anything a moderator does is correct - that they do not make mistakes, despite you earlier listing many reasons why this particular mod team is likely to make more mistakes than average. I’m not dealing with a reasonable set of mods, so advice for dealing with reasonable mods… I don’t think that’s helpful.
Would you like to see my successful ban appeals? You might learn something.
I have successfully appealed several bans, and am perfectly willing to provide proof.
An assessment of “defensive” is accurate, based on your comments. As I pointed out, it is unnecessary for you to identify with a mod team that you are not a part of. They are not here, and they gain nothing from your valiant defense of their honor. It’s an unnecessary choice on your part.
It takes two to argue (funny how that sounds like your advice!), and you have engaged in it in this thread - along with continuous and unnecessary comments about my character. You’ll note that I have not engaged in the same, nor do I intend to.I have told you, repeatedly, that you are not being criticized here - and there is no need to respond as if you are.
With respect to the above, I don’t think that you know what you are talking about. Your “advice” has consisted of: never criticize anything about modding on Reddit, unless you are prepared with an 125-step action plan… instead of acknowledging that, yes, we can identify healthy and unhealthy practices from the outside as well as the inside.
I suggest that, if you continue to give advice, you do so without attacking the person asking for it, and without bristling at the thought that a moderator (or team of) can make a mistake. That’s my good-faith interpretation of the situation, based on an assumption of positive intent - meaning that until proven otherwise, I assume that I am dealing with a positive, rational actor. A good person, in other words. That’s why, throughout the modmail exchange, I was polite, conciliatory, deferential, and assigned no blame - providing an offer of help. Each time, that was rebuffed.
Given your argumentative nature, willingness to make claims about things you do not know, and your adamant belief that you should not be responsible for what you do. I do not believe you will see successful ban appeals until you are willing to change how you act on Reddit.
Since you are claiming I am defensive, I can only guess that you are perceiving this as an argument instead of the help I am trying to provide. So I will stop and only leave you with this.
If you act like this going forward, any ban you receive you should not appeal because with this behavior you will only make things worse for yourself. Follow the advice or not, ultimately it is up to you.
**Edit**: Talking about the moderators of a sub you were banned from has no relevance to how you can do better in the future. You can't control them, you can only control you.
I've locked this comment chain as it's not productive, but left it to show OP's thought process.
I've locked this comment chain as it's not productive, but left it to show OP's thought process.
I have successfully appealed several bans, and am perfectly willing to provide proof.
An assessment of “defensive” is accurate, based on your comments. As I pointed out, it is unnecessary for you to identify with a mod team that you are not a part of. They are not here, and they gain nothing from your valiant defense of their honor. It’s an unnecessary choice on your part.
It takes two to argue (funny how that sounds like your advice!), and you have engaged in it in this thread - along with continuous and unnecessary comments about my character. You’ll note that I have not engaged in the same, nor do I intend to.I have told you, repeatedly, that you are not being criticized here - and there is no need to respond as if you are.
With respect to the above, I don’t think that you know what you are talking about. Your “advice” has consisted of: never criticize anything about modding on Reddit, unless you are prepared with an 125-step action plan… instead of acknowledging that, yes, we can identify healthy and unhealthy practices from the outside as well as the inside.
I suggest that, if you continue to give advice, you do so without attacking the person asking for it, and without bristling at the thought that a moderator (or team of) can make a mistake. That’s my good-faith interpretation of the situation, based on an assumption of positive intent - meaning that until proven otherwise, I assume that I am dealing with a positive, rational actor. A good person, in other words. That’s why, throughout the modmail exchange, I was polite, conciliatory, deferential, and assigned no blame - providing an offer of help. Each time, that was rebuffed.
In response to your edit: your choice to argue incessantly in their defense *was your choice.* I didn’t come here to argue.
Your choice to continuously attack my character *is also your choice.* I didn’t invite you to make pronouncements about “my nature.”
You have asserted that I must consider situations from other points of view… while rejecting and invalidating my own.
You have asserted that I am *not allowed* to point out deficiencies in a system, without having a comprehensive plan in place to fix that system.
You seem to be operating under the assumption than anything a moderator does is correct - that they do not make mistakes, despite you earlier listing many reasons why this particular mod team is likely to make more mistakes than average. I’m not dealing with a reasonable set of mods, so advice for dealing with reasonable mods… I don’t think that’s helpful.
Would you like to see my successful ban appeals? You might learn something.
Given your argumentative nature, willingness to make claims about things you do not know, and your adamant belief that you should not be responsible for what you do. I do not believe you will see successful ban appeals until you are willing to change how you act on Reddit.
Since you are claiming I am defensive, I can only guess that you are perceiving this as an argument instead of the help I am trying to provide. So I will stop and only leave you with this.
If you act like this going forward, any ban you receive you should not appeal because with this behavior you will only make things worse for yourself. Follow the advice or not, ultimately it is up to you.
**Edit**: Talking about the moderators of a sub you were banned from has no relevance to how you can do better in the future. You can't control them, you can only control you.
I’m going to address this first:
> We are already held to a standard beyond self-policing, and you are currently not happy with how that is going.
From the use of the word “we” it is clear that you have decided to identify with the worldnews mods, and feel compelled to defend their honor from an attack that you perceive me to be making. This is unnecessary and incorrect - you are under no obligation, as a mod, to defend all mods ever. Further, your defensiveness shows that you identify a divide between mods and users, and feel that criticism should be dismissed lest it apply to you too.
> Well wouldn't you be responsible for the changes you want to be made on your behalf?
No single member of any community has exclusive responsibility for any changes, simply for identifying a need for improved outcomes. Literally no community anywhere on earth works like this - why would you assume that Reddit does? Genuine question here, please answer.
Your assertion is so far out of left field, that it is outside the stadium and far into the parking lot.
> How many mods should they have for that many users?
I don’t need to provide you an exact number or algorithm to tell you that nine is not enough. Are you adopting the position that nine is perfectly adequate - if so, why?
> And how should they get those mods?
Not my problem. We are talking about outcomes. If you are adopting the position that adding more mods is impossible, I think you will struggle to defend that position.
> Again, not viewing it from their perspective means what appears like reasonable requests on your behalf are highly unreasonable to actually apply.
If reasonable requests are difficult to fulfill due to circumstances entirely within the control of the mod team… then those requests are still reasonable, and the mod team should stop shooting itself in the foot.
> Who determines what is an accurate ban or an inaccurate ban?
The comment you quoted was literally followed by an explanation addressing the exact questions you just posed to me, so I really don’t know what you think you’re doing here. Go ahead and reread the passage immediately following the quoted comment.
> Should Reddit hire more admins while they are letting employees go?
Probably. Reddit, as a company, is not run well - and I’ve never met anyone, mod or not, who thinks it is.
> Well it was your "reasonable" suggestion, so why shouldn't you be responsible?
This fascinating take of “you can’t identify a negative outcome of anything, or ask that anything be improved, unless you have a comprehensive plan to address every aspect of every identified deficiency” really highlights what’s wrong with our democracy tbh.
> We are already held to a standard beyond self-policing,
The standards that mods are held to are extraordinarily low.
> How did you make this post if you didn't know what the situation is?
If you’ll read the attached modmail transcript, I wasn’t provided with an explanation for my ban, until 30 days after the ban was issued.
> It seems like you know enough to open up dialogue with an apology if you wanted to, you just choose not to.
I wasn’t even provided with an explanation of what I should (allegedly) apologize for, for thirty days after my ban.
> Do you think it is wrong to say anti-vaxxers spread misinformation?
I’m not here to engage in endless debate of hypotheticals. If you want to defend anti-vaxxers, or attack them, you’re going to need to go find someone who wants to do that with you.
> Right, there has been a push for moderators to ban any misinformation we come across.
Good thing that I didn’t spread any misinformation. That doesn’t explain my ban though.
> And saying you should just have the benefit of the doubt makes it seem like you are lying.
I never said that I should have the benefit of the doubt. I said that my literal comment history, all of it, contains exactly zero comments that could possibly be construed as anti-vax. As it happens, it also contains many that are pro-vax, because those are my beliefs and I make no apology for them.
> But it certainly isn't a catch-22, unless you are saying nothing anyone said could ever change your mind if you decided they were an anti-vaxxer.
I think you need to go back and attempt to write a cohesive sentence, to replace the above.
> So all anti-vaxxers don't spread misinformation in your view?
Again, not interested in pointless hypotheticals, asked with the intent to derail. If that’s something you want to engage in, by all means go and find someone who wants to engage in the lowest possible form of debate.
> So you believe everyone else over yourself?
See above.
> Because you have not interacted that way with me.
You have been treated with perfect fairness - by all means, point out an example if you think that you are entitled to more than I’ve given you. You are not entitled to my agreement with regards to your arguments - and if that’s how you mod your community, maybe that’s a problem?
Yeah, I understand that there’s nothing I can do to *make* anyone from that mod team take an interest in my “injustice” (tongue in cheek, intentionally).
I don’t quite buy the “we’re just volunteers” excuse that tends to come up - if you volunteer to cook at the soup kitchen, and you don’t wash your hands after taking a dump… “it’s not like I’m getting paid to be here, take what you can get” doesn’t work as an excuse.
I mean, it’s not some tiny organization either. It’s one of the top subs on one of the largest social media platforms - you’d think that standards would be higher, rather than lower, as communities increase in size. But then again, I think that part of this is coming from frustration with how Reddit itself works than any one example.
I get what’re saying in that I don’t “need” to respond to a ban, ever. The reason I wanted to be unbanned is simple: it’s a large sub with subject matter I find interesting, and I enjoyed participating there. I think part of it is that the reason for this ban is so far out of left field that I really do believe it was issued by mistake.
A better way to frame it would be that I had no intention of interacting with that mod team until they banned me from out of the blue. If you don’t want people messaging you over modmail, handing out bans at random… is a great way to get people contacting you over modmail. I mean, that’s why modmail exists. I didn’t create the situation, yknow?
Anyway I appreciate your comment.
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Banned from a subreddit I never used, then reported to the admins for harassment by mods of r/JusticeServed[https://i.gyazo.com/e9a40542b4b914f593fc7d522437dac0.png](https://i.gyazo.com/e9a40542b4b914f593fc7d522437dac0.png)
then I said
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Then this
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thats the whole story feels like blatant and outrageous abuse of power
Banned from a subreddit I never used, then reported to the admins for harassment by mods of r/JusticeServed[https://i.gyazo.com/e9a40542b4b914f593fc7d522437dac0.png](https://i.gyazo.com/e9a40542b4b914f593fc7d522437dac0.png)
then I said
[https://i.gyazo.com/1d194b212a7695e0706807376b390c1d.png](https://i.gyazo.com/1d194b212a7695e0706807376b390c1d.png)
Then this
[https://i.gyazo.com/3ae6fa82416529b825d84c3acc35c168.png](https://i.gyazo.com/3ae6fa82416529b825d84c3acc35c168.png)
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thats the whole story feels like blatant and outrageous abuse of power
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Body shamer, biased literal bridge troll. Blocks people from the thread who hold them accountable. Just look through their comments for laundry list of examples.u/kfunkyjunk
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Body shamer, biased literal bridge troll. Blocks people from the thread who hold them accountable. Just look through their comments for laundry list of examples.u/kfunkyjunk
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From what I can see, you were banned for rule 4, which states (placed here for convenience):
>Rule 4: No bullying, invalidating or apologist behavior
Your actions can be seen as rule-breaking, since you replied to a user who was venting and seeking advice with a response that was likely seen as being dismissive. Saying 'throw it away and protect your children better' isn't useful advice; in a way, it's a form of victim-blaming. It shifts the responsibility from the wrongdoer (in this case, a BPD parent who ignored boundaries) to the OP in question. That is about as invalidating as it gets. Telling someone to protect their children better is not practical advice, and possibly only serves to upset someone who has taken a big step in coming to that subreddit with a heavy topic.
Personally, as a mod, I might even have labelled it bullying. But I am not privy to their moderation decisions, so I couldn't say for sure. This is speculation on my part.
Now, is this worth a permanent ban? Let's take a look at the subreddit's moderation policies. It states this:
>This is a survivor support subreddit. We take the safety of the sub members very seriously and moderate accordingly. Due to many members’ personal history with a parent who is abusive, self-harms, rages, blames, and obsesses, **we work very hard to maintain a kind, supportive space**.
>Unfortunately, we are a magnet for trolling. We never take actions lightly, and we depend on the community to help us keep everyone safe.
Emphasis on words quoted is mine. As the moderators of raisedbyborderlines have stated, they are focused on maintaining a safe and supportive place for victims of BPD parents. I would assume this means a strict, zero tolerance approach to many things. Having moderated elsewhere, I can see the value of this approach. Attempting to 'set' a culture in a subreddit is not easy. One or two mean comments could well trigger an avalanche of more, because other users will see it and think "oh, this is fair game", and from there it's hard to reset. So, being firm on rule-breaking comments, especially those of a nature that invalidates other users on this subreddit makes sense.
>What I'd like: I'd like to know why, after 5 years of being a member in good standing of this community, I was perma'd without so much as a how do you do. This community is a support group, and to be unceremoniously kicked out of a support group feels like a heavy betrayal.
Mods generally will not consider your time of participation in the community. One, simply because there is no good way to tell. Even if you have comments dating back to those times, it doesn't mean anything beyond your having commented 5 years ago. Only you know how much you've participated in a community, and it's not a useful measure of telling whether someone *should* be banned. They can only judge based off rule-breaking, like this one.
Two, subreddits are full of people. 60,000 feels like a small amount in terms of sub count, but that is enough to fill a stadium. And when you consider factors such as the heavy topics often discussed here, that amplifies things. The mods can't spare time getting to know everyone and their story. Again, they can only judge off your behavior in the subreddit.
The modmail exchange didn't help either. Instead of apologizing for what you did wrong, you asked how you broke the rules. This isn't always a bad thing, but in this case you have to consider it from the mod team's perspective: You told someone to 'take care of their children better', and then when banned, asked what you did wrong. This could have been seen as asking in bad faith; the rules are there. It is arguably, your responsibility as a community member to understand them.
>I responded to the message, asking for clarification from the mod team. Their response was to shut me down for a month. I finally reached out to one founding member and long term mod and received no response.
This is a big no-no. When a mod team mutes you (and it will be a team, because modmails can be seen by everyone, and if there were objections it could be walked back) they're effectively setting a boundary with you. Privately messaging a moderator can be seen as you refusing to accept that boundary, and grounds for harassment. Moderators should be approached within official moderation spaces, not within private spaces where they exist as a normal Redditor. Remember, moderation is a volunteering stint. You wouldn't go bother someone volunteering at [charity organization of your choice] when they're out at the mall, and I think that analogy holds weight here too.
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Permantly banned for abusive language towards an alleged daycare murdererI am seeking: a reduced ban from r/Quebec instead of a permanent ban and was directed to this sub for this purpose by the mods of that sub.
What happened:
3 days ago, [a man did something horrible in a city just outside Montreal and seems to have deliberately have crashed a bus in a daycare, two kids are dead 6 injured](https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/montreal/2023/2/8/1_6264755.amp.html)
Everyone in the province was very angry and emotional that day. I know people around that area where it happened so it was slightly more personal for me. [Then on this thread about the accused hitting a cop in court](https://np.reddit.com/r/Quebec/comments/10xetfd/comment/j7rx2wn/) I basically said (in a post that I deleted quickly after that since I was ashamed, didn't think I would have to post something in a sub like this one sorry) that he will know a lot about unwanted sexual advances in prison.
I do understand that it breaks the rules, I regret the language that I used, I understand and acknowledged that it is not acceptable and (some of it is in French sorry) [I owned up to it right away after the ban](https://imgur.com/a/Zf6Ypkj), even got a [3 day reddit ban](https://imgur.com/a/nXagT0o) for it, which I deserved.
Permantly banned for abusive language towards an alleged daycare murdererI am seeking: a reduced ban from r/Quebec instead of a permanent ban and was directed to this sub for this purpose by the mods of that sub.
What happened:
3 days ago, [a man did something horrible in a city just outside Montreal and seems to have deliberately have crashed a bus in a daycare, two kids are dead 6 injured](https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/montreal/2023/2/8/1_6264755.amp.html)
Everyone in the province was very angry and emotional that day. I know people around that area where it happened so it was slightly more personal for me. [Then on this thread about the accused hitting a cop in court](https://np.reddit.com/r/Quebec/comments/10xetfd/comment/j7rx2wn/) I basically said (in a post that I deleted quickly after that since I was ashamed, didn't think I would have to post something in a sub like this one sorry) that he will know a lot about unwanted sexual advances in prison.
I do understand that it breaks the rules, I regret the language that I used, I understand and acknowledged that it is not acceptable and (some of it is in French sorry) [I owned up to it right away after the ban](https://imgur.com/a/Zf6Ypkj), even got a [3 day reddit ban](https://imgur.com/a/nXagT0o) for it, which I deserved.
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Permabanned with no reason givenWhat I want: either to be unbanned, or at the very least be told what I did to warrant a ban
What happened: About a month ago I was seemingly randomly banned from r/physics, when I repeatedly enquired about a reason for my ban, I was muted, once again without reason.
When I went through my post history, the last comment I made on that sub was "I love it!", as a reply to an image of a Mathematics related mug with Pythagoras and Einstein fighting over c² for their equations, which I found pretty cute. The original post was also deleted around that same time.
I still believe that I did nothing to warrant a ban, and would like some clarification, at least.
Permabanned with no reason givenWhat I want: either to be unbanned, or at the very least be told what I did to warrant a ban
What happened: About a month ago I was seemingly randomly banned from r/physics, when I repeatedly enquired about a reason for my ban, I was muted, once again without reason.
When I went through my post history, the last comment I made on that sub was "I love it!", as a reply to an image of a Mathematics related mug with Pythagoras and Einstein fighting over c² for their equations, which I found pretty cute. The original post was also deleted around that same time.
I still believe that I did nothing to warrant a ban, and would like some clarification, at least.
Permabanned with no reason givenWhat I want: either to be unbanned, or at the very least be told what I did to warrant a ban
What happened: About a month ago I was seemingly randomly banned from r/physics, when I repeatedly enquired about a reason for my ban, I was muted, once again without reason.
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Body shamer, biased literal bridge troll. Blocks people from the thread who hold them accountable. Just look through their comments for laundry list of examples.u/kfunkyjunk
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Body shamer, biased literal bridge troll. Blocks people from the thread who hold them accountable. Just look through their comments for laundry list of examples.u/kfunkyjunk
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Banned from a subreddit I never used, then reported to the admins for harassment by mods of r/JusticeServed[https://i.gyazo.com/e9a40542b4b914f593fc7d522437dac0.png](https://i.gyazo.com/e9a40542b4b914f593fc7d522437dac0.png)
then I said
[https://i.gyazo.com/1d194b212a7695e0706807376b390c1d.png](https://i.gyazo.com/1d194b212a7695e0706807376b390c1d.png)
Then this
[https://i.gyazo.com/3ae6fa82416529b825d84c3acc35c168.png](https://i.gyazo.com/3ae6fa82416529b825d84c3acc35c168.png)
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thats the whole story feels like blatant and outrageous abuse of power
Banned from a subreddit I never used, then reported to the admins for harassment by mods of r/JusticeServed[https://i.gyazo.com/e9a40542b4b914f593fc7d522437dac0.png](https://i.gyazo.com/e9a40542b4b914f593fc7d522437dac0.png)
then I said
[https://i.gyazo.com/1d194b212a7695e0706807376b390c1d.png](https://i.gyazo.com/1d194b212a7695e0706807376b390c1d.png)
Then this
[https://i.gyazo.com/3ae6fa82416529b825d84c3acc35c168.png](https://i.gyazo.com/3ae6fa82416529b825d84c3acc35c168.png)
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thats the whole story feels like blatant and outrageous abuse of power
Reddit Mod InsultForewarning: Slightly longer post. TLDR just stick to the first paragraph, I guess
I posted a question over on r/ROTC with explanations. Maybe it was because I didn’t directly say it was a dumb question but all I was asking for was assurance because I was in a bad overthinking situation. I get the comment “You’re being an idiot” with a very sarcastic statement of the obvious. But you’d think the added insult was really unnecessary? They acted like I should have automatically known EVERYTHING the moment I joined. I’ve only been enrolled for a week less than a month
This part digresses a little but I explained in my post that the cadre (guys in charge, basically) make it feel like the program is almost authoritarianism/totalitarianism. Not entirely but they indicated that “we have control over your life now, even if you’re uncontracted.” Maybe they’re just some military geek/nerd know-it-all high on red bull :/
Reddit Mod InsultForewarning: Slightly longer post. TLDR just stick to the first paragraph, I guess
I posted a question over on r/ROTC with explanations. Maybe it was because I didn’t directly say it was a dumb question but all I was asking for was assurance because I was in a bad overthinking situation. I get the comment “You’re being an idiot” with a very sarcastic statement of the obvious. But you’d think the added insult was really unnecessary? They acted like I should have automatically known EVERYTHING the moment I joined. I’ve only been enrolled for a week less than a month
This part digresses a little but I explained in my post that the cadre (guys in charge, basically) make it feel like the program is almost authoritarianism/totalitarianism. Not entirely but they indicated that “we have control over your life now, even if you’re uncontracted.” Maybe they’re just some military geek/nerd know-it-all high on red bull :/
I got falsely banned by the automod on r/rGamingcirclejerk twice by the automod and when I tried to appeal it they muted me.I'm a little annoyed to be honest I got banned the first time by automod for literally no reason I agree with everything that sub says and haven't broken a rule yet. So I'm like? Okay cool I'll message the mods! No response so I wait a few days then message them again with a snarky message and they unbanned me right? Well I make a comment and same day I get unbanned I get fucking banned again and when I go to appeal saying "This is the second time now please fix automod its clearly broken" they temp muted me for 28 days what do I do?
I got falsely banned by the automod on r/rGamingcirclejerk twice by the automod and when I tried to appeal it they muted me.I'm a little annoyed to be honest I got banned the first time by automod for literally no reason I agree with everything that sub says and haven't broken a rule yet. So I'm like? Okay cool I'll message the mods! No response so I wait a few days then message them again with a snarky message and they unbanned me right? Well I make a comment and same day I get unbanned I get fucking banned again and when I go to appeal saying "This is the second time now please fix automod its clearly broken" they temp muted me for 28 days what do I do?
Perma banned for making one mistake and then muted. And to add even more spice no second chanceReddit is ass at this point. The support team can’t to anything about it and it’s stupid that mods are just rude
Perma banned for making one mistake and then muted. And to add even more spice no second chanceReddit is ass at this point. The support team can’t to anything about it and it’s stupid that mods are just rude
This comment was informed based off my understanding of the situation, and my experience as a moderator elsewhere. It is not a personal judgment of the user or moderation team being discussed.
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From what I can see, you were banned for rule 4, which states (placed here for convenience):
>Rule 4: No bullying, invalidating or apologist behavior
Your actions can be seen as rule-breaking, since you replied to a user who was venting and seeking advice with a response that was likely seen as being dismissive. Saying 'throw it away and protect your children better' isn't useful advice; in a way, it's a form of victim-blaming. It shifts the responsibility from the wrongdoer (in this case, a BPD parent who ignored boundaries) to the OP in question. That is about as invalidating as it gets. Telling someone to protect their children better is not practical advice, and possibly only serves to upset someone who has taken a big step in coming to that subreddit with a heavy topic.
Personally, as a mod, I might even have labelled it bullying. But I am not privy to their moderation decisions, so I couldn't say for sure. This is speculation on my part.
Now, is this worth a permanent ban? Let's take a look at the subreddit's moderation policies. It states this:
>This is a survivor support subreddit. We take the safety of the sub members very seriously and moderate accordingly. Due to many members’ personal history with a parent who is abusive, self-harms, rages, blames, and obsesses, **we work very hard to maintain a kind, supportive space**.
>Unfortunately, we are a magnet for trolling. We never take actions lightly, and we depend on the community to help us keep everyone safe.
Emphasis on words quoted is mine. As the moderators of raisedbyborderlines have stated, they are focused on maintaining a safe and supportive place for victims of BPD parents. I would assume this means a strict, zero tolerance approach to many things. Having moderated elsewhere, I can see the value of this approach. Attempting to 'set' a culture in a subreddit is not easy. One or two mean comments could well trigger an avalanche of more, because other users will see it and think "oh, this is fair game", and from there it's hard to reset. So, being firm on rule-breaking comments, especially those of a nature that invalidates other users on this subreddit makes sense.
>What I'd like: I'd like to know why, after 5 years of being a member in good standing of this community, I was perma'd without so much as a how do you do. This community is a support group, and to be unceremoniously kicked out of a support group feels like a heavy betrayal.
Mods generally will not consider your time of participation in the community. One, simply because there is no good way to tell. Even if you have comments dating back to those times, it doesn't mean anything beyond your having commented 5 years ago. Only you know how much you've participated in a community, and it's not a useful measure of telling whether someone *should* be banned. They can only judge based off rule-breaking, like this one.
Two, subreddits are full of people. 60,000 feels like a small amount in terms of sub count, but that is enough to fill a stadium. And when you consider factors such as the heavy topics often discussed here, that amplifies things. The mods can't spare time getting to know everyone and their story. Again, they can only judge off your behavior in the subreddit.
The modmail exchange didn't help either. Instead of apologizing for what you did wrong, you asked how you broke the rules. This isn't always a bad thing, but in this case you have to consider it from the mod team's perspective: You told someone to 'take care of their children better', and then when banned, asked what you did wrong. This could have been seen as asking in bad faith; the rules are there. It is arguably, your responsibility as a community member to understand them.
>I responded to the message, asking for clarification from the mod team. Their response was to shut me down for a month. I finally reached out to one founding member and long term mod and received no response.
This is a big no-no. When a mod team mutes you (and it will be a team, because modmails can be seen by everyone, and if there were objections it could be walked back) they're effectively setting a boundary with you. Privately messaging a moderator can be seen as you refusing to accept that boundary, and grounds for harassment. Moderators should be approached within official moderation spaces, not within private spaces where they exist as a normal Redditor. Remember, moderation is a volunteering stint. You wouldn't go bother someone volunteering at [charity organization of your choice] when they're out at the mall, and I think that analogy holds weight here too.
I think your chances to appeal are low. But if you wish to try, then first you must understand respecting boundaries. Let the mute expire, perhaps give a little extra time on top of that (a couple of months at least). Then, if you still wish to return to the community, write a modmail apologizing for your actions, explaining how you erred and promising not to do it again. And if they choose not to respond, or to say that your ban won't be repealed, respect that.
Permabanned with no reason givenWhat I want: either to be unbanned, or at the very least be told what I did to warrant a ban
What happened: About a month ago I was seemingly randomly banned from r/physics, when I repeatedly enquired about a reason for my ban, I was muted, once again without reason.
When I went through my post history, the last comment I made on that sub was "I love it!", as a reply to an image of a Mathematics related mug with Pythagoras and Einstein fighting over c² for their equations, which I found pretty cute. The original post was also deleted around that same time.
I still believe that I did nothing to warrant a ban, and would like some clarification, at least.
Permabanned with no reason givenWhat I want: either to be unbanned, or at the very least be told what I did to warrant a ban
What happened: About a month ago I was seemingly randomly banned from r/physics, when I repeatedly enquired about a reason for my ban, I was muted, once again without reason.
When I went through my post history, the last comment I made on that sub was "I love it!", as a reply to an image of a Mathematics related mug with Pythagoras and Einstein fighting over c² for their equations, which I found pretty cute. The original post was also deleted around that same time.
I still believe that I did nothing to warrant a ban, and would like some clarification, at least.
> The rules do not have to be consistent, nor do they have to be fair.
Being inconsistent and unfair is a clear violation of rule 2 of the [mod code of conduct](https://www.redditinc.com/policies/moderator-code-of-conduct). If one "creat[es] rules that explicitly outline your expectations for members of your community" and then a mod hands out capricious bans that have nothing to do with those rules, just because they don't like someone's content - which is clearly what happened here - then that inherently means the sub doesn't have "rules that explicitly outline your expectations for members of your community".
This just another case of a mod abusing their power and suffering no consequences. It's a tale as old as ~~time~~ Reddit.
This sounds a bit like holding OP to a far, far higher standard than the moderators involved. Overall, this seems a bit unfair.
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Banned from a game-related sub for saying "I personally don’t think it’s right to put someone with a penis in a women’s prison"##I am seeking:
To be unbanned from the subreddit
## What happened:
I was banned for saying "I personally don't think it's right to put someone with a penis in a women's prison" because the mod deemed this transphobic. This is the conversation:
https://i.imgur.com/X3iC30T.png
This seems to be the action of a rogue mod who has the dangerously incorrect opinion that acknowledging the difference between gender and sex and presence or absence of genitals is equivalent to transphobia.
This mod's stance and actions are extremely malignant to the trans community and trans rights movement. If this mod's views were enacted, it would be responsible for the deaths of thousands of trans women around the world who would not be able to receive the sex-dependent medical care necessary. Attempting to erase the difference between sex and gender and to deny existence of genitals is alarmingly harmful behavior. Genitals are important in prisons for example because the employees there have to conduct strip searches, and the female employees of the female sex-segregated prisons certainly do not have it in their contract that they have to view and search naked people with a penis as part of their required duties. The purpose of a prison is not gender-affirmation or defining womanhood. It's to hold dangerous criminals, and for this purpose genitals are relevant.
However the point is not even how harmful this mod's views are. The issue in question is that the rule was no "transphobic comments". My comment was not transphobic and was not even a comment on gender.
If the mod's definition of transphobic was "any mention of sex-specific characteristics is transphobic. The mods view JK Rowling as transphobic and any comments expressing sympathy with her are also transphobic", then that definition should be made clear since it is not the actual meaning of the word and by no means clear from their pinned comment.
The mod is simply using the word "transphobic" as a blunt weapon to delete any comment they wish regardless of the applicability of the rule.
Banned from a game-related sub for saying "I personally don’t think it’s right to put someone with a penis in a women’s prison"##I am seeking:
To be unbanned from the subreddit
## What happened:
I was banned for saying "I personally don't think it's right to put someone with a penis in a women's prison" because the mod deemed this transphobic. This is the conversation:
https://i.imgur.com/X3iC30T.png
This seems to be the action of a rogue mod who has the dangerously incorrect opinion that acknowledging the difference between gender and sex and presence or absence of genitals is equivalent to transphobia.
This mod's stance and actions are extremely malignant to the trans community and trans rights movement. If this mod's views were enacted, it would be responsible for the deaths of thousands of trans women around the world who would not be able to receive the sex-dependent medical care necessary. Attempting to erase the difference between sex and gender and to deny existence of genitals is alarmingly harmful behavior. Genitals are important in prisons for example because the employees there have to conduct strip searches, and the female employees of the female sex-segregated prisons certainly do not have it in their contract that they have to view and search naked people with a penis as part of their required duties. The purpose of a prison is not gender-affirmation or defining womanhood. It's to hold dangerous criminals, and for this purpose genitals are relevant.
However the point is not even how harmful this mod's views are. The issue in question is that the rule was no "transphobic comments". My comment was not transphobic and was not even a comment on gender.
If the mod's definition of transphobic was "any mention of sex-specific characteristics is transphobic. The mods view JK Rowling as transphobic and any comments expressing sympathy with her are also transphobic", then that definition should be made clear since it is not the actual meaning of the word and by no means clear from their pinned comment.
The mod is simply using the word "transphobic" as a blunt weapon to delete any comment they wish regardless of the applicability of the rule.
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Permaban from r/physics with no reason given.Hi. About a month ago I was seemingly randomly banned from r/physics, when I repeatedly enquired about a reason for my ban, I was muted, once again without reason.
Not once has a mod from the sub replied to my messages at all.
When I went through my post history, the last comment I made on that sub was "I love it!", as a reply to an image of a Mathematics related mug with Pythagoras and Einstein fighting over c² for their equations, which I found pretty cute. The original post was also deleted around that same time.
I feel insulted that they didn't even bother to tell me what I did wrong, although I still believe that I did nothing to warrant a ban.
Permaban from r/physics with no reason given.Hi. About a month ago I was seemingly randomly banned from r/physics, when I repeatedly enquired about a reason for my ban, I was muted, once again without reason.
Not once has a mod from the sub replied to my messages at all.
When I went through my post history, the last comment I made on that sub was "I love it!", as a reply to an image of a Mathematics related mug with Pythagoras and Einstein fighting over c² for their equations, which I found pretty cute. The original post was also deleted around that same time.
I feel insulted that they didn't even bother to tell me what I did wrong, although I still believe that I did nothing to warrant a ban.
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Banned for "Promoting a Right-Wing Extremist Group"**I am seeking:** restoration into the OSR subreddit and for a response from the mods other than a knee-jerk "K."
**What happened:** A member on the OSR subreddit posted a [highly inflammatory and confrontational post](https://np.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/10zy5fo/new_patches_in_our_webstore/) while trying to garner sales for a patch he'd created. The patch said, "Punch Nazis Roll Dice" and the OP was laying on very heavy rhetoric in the comments. The community was divided between the "hell yeah, punch nazis and bash fascists, kick them out of the hobby" crowd and the "We shouldn't be promoting assaulting anyone based on differing ideology, especially when labeling is often used as an excuse" crowd.
Anyone against the "assaulting people" mindset was labeled as a Nazi, Nazi sympathizer, fascist, bigot, etc. Discourse to the contrary was shut down with hyperbolic ad-hom. Don't take my word for it, peruse the comments at your leisure.
At some point in the discourse, users began dredging my profile for reasons to shut me down, such as posting on conservative-based subreddits (because, surprise, I'm a republican conservative).
In the interest of full disclosure, I also subscribed to a membership with the Oathkeepers back in, eh, around 2010 (shortly after I'd gotten out of the military). Their tenets then (and now, as far as I can tell) were to resist unjust laws and orders issued by the U.S. Government, and to focus on building, sustaining, and supporting our communities in times of distress. Obviously, some of the OK leadership have been drug through the mud in the media for the last couple of years - which I don't have a comment on, as it has nothing to do with me or those tenets.
I have no problem discussing this with people when they ask or when it comes up because, again, nothing to hide because I've done nothing wrong - not that you'd think that if you read the Wikipedia page on the Oathkeepers, though. I'm used to being harassed because I'm a conservative, because I liked Donald Trump, or because I vote red. Nothing new.
However, in doxxing that information and dragging it into the thread, I was also (apparently) reported and summarily permabanned from OSR for "promoting a right-wing extremist organization on a TTRPG site."
I wasn't. Not only did I not promote anything of the such - defending my own actions and choices when directly attacked hardly counts - but the subreddit doesn't (or didn't) have any explicit rules against discussing political-themed topics (which is presumed because the OP created the post that he did \*and\* the conversation went on for about a full day before the mods decided to lock it). They also posted a [thread](https://np.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/110it6x/please_message_the_mods_prior_to_posting_any/) dealing with the controversy after the fact.
Again, in the interest of full disclosure, I have never nor would I ever support Nazi or fascist ideology. What I was attempting to convey was the rhetoric used in "Punch Nazis" is the same mindset used to label people who you don't agree with or like as "Nazi" or "fascist" or whatever, so you can feel justified in assaulting them and instigating or encouraging violence towards them. It's dangerous rhetoric that gets people hurt and killed, and it's ignorant and stupid. I said as much - and, again, you can read the results for yourself.
So, as to the ban itself: [This is a screencap of the interaction between me and the mods](https://ibb.co/nwCqBs5) when I was perma-banned for the alleged reason. I admit to being heated and frustrated - it doesn't matter how many times you get banned from a place because you have a difference in views or opinion, rather than actual misconduct, it still frustrates you - but I still feel like the things I said - while a bit heated - were still fairly tame. The one-word dismissive responses - "K." - were condescending and immature, however.
I'd have let it go - again, not my first rodeo, even if I really liked the community - but then the moderation crew [reported me to Reddit for "harassment"](https://ibb.co/cQdyJhX) \- linking the mod mail chat regarding the ban - with the following snippet:
"Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for harassing or bullying people. We don't tolerate any behaviors that discourage others from participating in communities, conversations, or the Reddit platform through harassment, bullying, intimidation, or abuse. Any communities or people that incite or engage in harassment or abuse towards an individual or group will be banned."
***I*** was the direct target of that behavior - the whole description applies to the way I was treated, not only by community users, but also by the moderators. And they had the gall to report *me* to Reddit?
I don't honestly expect them to un-ban me. Mods notoriously lean towards hatred of being called out for anything and being prone to power abuse. Still, I enjoyed the community and I don't feel I was treated or handled fairly *in the least* \- especially considering other users were being directly antagonistic, offensive, and abusive towards me. I want more of a resolution than what I received.
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Edit: [An Unddit of the thread in question, for posterity.](https://www.unddit.com/r/osr/comments/10zy5fo/new_patches_in_our_webstore/) There were a host of deleted or removed comments.
Banned for "Promoting a Right-Wing Extremist Group"**I am seeking:** restoration into the OSR subreddit and for a response from the mods other than a knee-jerk "K."
**What happened:** A member on the OSR subreddit posted a [highly inflammatory and confrontational post](https://np.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/10zy5fo/new_patches_in_our_webstore/) while trying to garner sales for a patch he'd created. The patch said, "Punch Nazis Roll Dice" and the OP was laying on very heavy rhetoric in the comments. The community was divided between the "hell yeah, punch nazis and bash fascists, kick them out of the hobby" crowd and the "We shouldn't be promoting assaulting anyone based on differing ideology, especially when labeling is often used as an excuse" crowd.
Anyone against the "assaulting people" mindset was labeled as a Nazi, Nazi sympathizer, fascist, bigot, etc. Discourse to the contrary was shut down with hyperbolic ad-hom. Don't take my word for it, peruse the comments at your leisure.
At some point in the discourse, users began dredging my profile for reasons to shut me down, such as posting on conservative-based subreddits (because, surprise, I'm a republican conservative).
In the interest of full disclosure, I also subscribed to a membership with the Oathkeepers back in, eh, around 2010 (shortly after I'd gotten out of the military). Their tenets then (and now, as far as I can tell) were to resist unjust laws and orders issued by the U.S. Government, and to focus on building, sustaining, and supporting our communities in times of distress. Obviously, some of the OK leadership have been drug through the mud in the media for the last couple of years - which I don't have a comment on, as it has nothing to do with me or those tenets.
I have no problem discussing this with people when they ask or when it comes up because, again, nothing to hide because I've done nothing wrong - not that you'd think that if you read the Wikipedia page on the Oathkeepers, though. I'm used to being harassed because I'm a conservative, because I liked Donald Trump, or because I vote red. Nothing new.
However, in doxxing that information and dragging it into the thread, I was also (apparently) reported and summarily permabanned from OSR for "promoting a right-wing extremist organization on a TTRPG site."
I wasn't. Not only did I not promote anything of the such - defending my own actions and choices when directly attacked hardly counts - but the subreddit doesn't (or didn't) have any explicit rules against discussing political-themed topics (which is presumed because the OP created the post that he did \*and\* the conversation went on for about a full day before the mods decided to lock it). They also posted a [thread](https://np.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/110it6x/please_message_the_mods_prior_to_posting_any/) dealing with the controversy after the fact.
Again, in the interest of full disclosure, I have never nor would I ever support Nazi or fascist ideology. What I was attempting to convey was the rhetoric used in "Punch Nazis" is the same mindset used to label people who you don't agree with or like as "Nazi" or "fascist" or whatever, so you can feel justified in assaulting them and instigating or encouraging violence towards them. It's dangerous rhetoric that gets people hurt and killed, and it's ignorant and stupid. I said as much - and, again, you can read the results for yourself.
So, as to the ban itself: [This is a screencap of the interaction between me and the mods](https://ibb.co/nwCqBs5) when I was perma-banned for the alleged reason. I admit to being heated and frustrated - it doesn't matter how many times you get banned from a place because you have a difference in views or opinion, rather than actual misconduct, it still frustrates you - but I still feel like the things I said - while a bit heated - were still fairly tame. The one-word dismissive responses - "K." - were condescending and immature, however.
I'd have let it go - again, not my first rodeo, even if I really liked the community - but then the moderation crew [reported me to Reddit for "harassment"](https://ibb.co/cQdyJhX) \- linking the mod mail chat regarding the ban - with the following snippet:
"Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for harassing or bullying people. We don't tolerate any behaviors that discourage others from participating in communities, conversations, or the Reddit platform through harassment, bullying, intimidation, or abuse. Any communities or people that incite or engage in harassment or abuse towards an individual or group will be banned."
***I*** was the direct target of that behavior - the whole description applies to the way I was treated, not only by community users, but also by the moderators. And they had the gall to report *me* to Reddit?
I don't honestly expect them to un-ban me. Mods notoriously lean towards hatred of being called out for anything and being prone to power abuse. Still, I enjoyed the community and I don't feel I was treated or handled fairly *in the least* \- especially considering other users were being directly antagonistic, offensive, and abusive towards me. I want more of a resolution than what I received.
​
Edit: [An Unddit of the thread in question, for posterity.](https://www.unddit.com/r/osr/comments/10zy5fo/new_patches_in_our_webstore/) There were a host of deleted or removed comments.
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Permantly banned for abusive language towards an alleged daycare murdererI am seeking: a reduced ban from r/Quebec instead of a permanent ban and was directed to this sub for this purpose by the mods of that sub.
What happened:
3 days ago, [a man did something horrible in a city just outside Montreal and seems to have deliberately have crashed a bus in a daycare, two kids are dead 6 injured](https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/montreal/2023/2/8/1_6264755.amp.html)
Everyone in the province was very angry and emotional that day. I know people around that area where it happened so it was slightly more personal for me. [Then on this thread about the accused hitting a cop in court](https://np.reddit.com/r/Quebec/comments/10xetfd/comment/j7rx2wn/) I basically said (in a post that I deleted quickly after that since I was ashamed, didn't think I would have to post something in a sub like this one sorry) that he will know a lot about unwanted sexual advances in prison.
I do understand that it breaks the rules, I regret the language that I used, I understand and acknowledged that it is not acceptable and (some of it is in French sorry) [I owned up to it right away after the ban](https://imgur.com/a/Zf6Ypkj), even got a [3 day reddit ban](https://imgur.com/a/nXagT0o) for it, which I deserved.
Permantly banned for abusive language towards an alleged daycare murdererI am seeking: a reduced ban from r/Quebec instead of a permanent ban and was directed to this sub for this purpose by the mods of that sub.
What happened:
3 days ago, [a man did something horrible in a city just outside Montreal and seems to have deliberately have crashed a bus in a daycare, two kids are dead 6 injured](https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/montreal/2023/2/8/1_6264755.amp.html)
Everyone in the province was very angry and emotional that day. I know people around that area where it happened so it was slightly more personal for me. [Then on this thread about the accused hitting a cop in court](https://np.reddit.com/r/Quebec/comments/10xetfd/comment/j7rx2wn/) I basically said (in a post that I deleted quickly after that since I was ashamed, didn't think I would have to post something in a sub like this one sorry) that he will know a lot about unwanted sexual advances in prison.
I do understand that it breaks the rules, I regret the language that I used, I understand and acknowledged that it is not acceptable and (some of it is in French sorry) [I owned up to it right away after the ban](https://imgur.com/a/Zf6Ypkj), even got a [3 day reddit ban](https://imgur.com/a/nXagT0o) for it, which I deserved.
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Muted for 28 days by r/wtf mods for questioning the way they operateI posted a wtf pic on r/wtf and it got removed. And i figure oh well it's fine until i notice the reason that was given when they removed it (repost) and it didn't make sense at all. So i send them a message asking for clarification and what followed was them moving from one excuse to another and finally they decided to mute me.
I'm not sure if there's something fishy going on behind the scenes but can someone help make sense of this?
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Muted for 28 days by r/wtf mods for questioning the way they operateI posted a wtf pic on r/wtf and it got removed. And i figure oh well it's fine until i notice the reason that was given when they removed it (repost) and it didn't make sense at all. So i send them a message asking for clarification and what followed was them moving from one excuse to another and finally they decided to mute me.
I'm not sure if there's something fishy going on behind the scenes but can someone help make sense of this?
Attaching pic of conversation: https://imgur.com/a/2A3X7c6
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Banned froma subreddit, I'd like to know if I'm making the right move
HI everyone, I'm posting this on this sub to have your opinion on this.if this is the wrong sub feel free to redirect me if you can.
I've been banned from a sub ( [r/crazyfuckingvideo](https://www.reddit.com/r/crazyfuckingvideo/) ) I think because I've violated the rule saying not to joke about violent acts or tragedies. Here is the link of the video and my comment following :
[(7) Wait, what? : CrazyFuckingVideos (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/10w2lp7/wait_what/)
"Asshole move, I still laughed tho"
So it's funny (no pun intended) but in retrospect I find it less "laughable" than my first viewing, I might be to blamed, at least in part.
So while I may have been careless and not capturing this situation for all it was, right after watching the video I just didn't felt compelled nor the need to justify that answer, I'm not glorifying evil acts, and I had a lot more in my mind than what I just wrote, like just a random reddit comment meaning no real harm or after thought. If I knew such "heavy" moderation was at play, I might have posted the depth of my thought, especially if this could result in such an easy ban.
I would've then add my thought, "I still laughed, **and/but** it would've been funny if it was friends joke (because the video really looked like it)."
But thinking about this now, I don't like going somewhere and having to weigh every of my statements and being in a place leaving almost no room to differentiate from the norm.
What do you think about all of this ? Thanks for answers
Banned froma subreddit, I'd like to know if I'm making the right move
HI everyone, I'm posting this on this sub to have your opinion on this.if this is the wrong sub feel free to redirect me if you can.
I've been banned from a sub ( [r/crazyfuckingvideo](https://www.reddit.com/r/crazyfuckingvideo/) ) I think because I've violated the rule saying not to joke about violent acts or tragedies. Here is the link of the video and my comment following :
[(7) Wait, what? : CrazyFuckingVideos (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/10w2lp7/wait_what/)
"Asshole move, I still laughed tho"
So it's funny (no pun intended) but in retrospect I find it less "laughable" than my first viewing, I might be to blamed, at least in part.
So while I may have been careless and not capturing this situation for all it was, right after watching the video I just didn't felt compelled nor the need to justify that answer, I'm not glorifying evil acts, and I had a lot more in my mind than what I just wrote, like just a random reddit comment meaning no real harm or after thought. If I knew such "heavy" moderation was at play, I might have posted the depth of my thought, especially if this could result in such an easy ban.
I would've then add my thought, "I still laughed, **and/but** it would've been funny if it was friends joke (because the video really looked like it)."
But thinking about this now, I don't like going somewhere and having to weigh every of my statements and being in a place leaving almost no room to differentiate from the norm.
What do you think about all of this ? Thanks for answers
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Moderator contacts me in private, being passive agressive and giving subjective explanations I am seeking: An honest opnion of the situation, especially of the mod's behavior
What happened:
I posted two polls to r/tunisia . One to ask people how they watch reels (on which apps), the other to ask people what tunisian states they have visited. Both posts got a fair amount of poll responses, but hardly any upvotes. It was the first time I posted polls. I post other types of posts from time to time. My account is 6 years old.
Links to posts:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xie9k/how\_many\_tunisian\_states\_have\_you\_visited/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xie9k/how_many_tunisian_states_have_you_visited/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xi8c7/where\_do\_you\_watch\_reels/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xi8c7/where_do_you_watch_reels/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
I get contacted privately by a mod who has the flair 'mr bans-a-lot':
Mod: This is just a warning, stop with the needless polls.
Me: You mean the two polls? May I know why?
Mod: Because they're not relative to anything useful for the subreddit and are spam
\*\* All good up until this point \*\*
Me: Well that’s an opinion. Plus, I did not know that we only need to post useful stuff. I thought it was for Tunisia related stuff. Anyway, if you make it an extra rule in the subreddit (added to the rules in the about) I will happily comply.
Mod: You asked what states people have visited in Tunisia.
There ***is nothing to be gained*** by this and polls are used to help boost peoples accounts.
I ***believe*** that is what you were doing.
For your other poll you asked where people watched reels. That has literally nothing to do with Tunisia and that is already a rule that is posted.
You know both of those polls **were silly and stupid** and don't belong there so **don't act like you don't know as I don't have the patience for it**. I removed the posts and just send a PM to you to knock it off. So knock it off.
Me: Thanks for your respectful replies!
(I have screenshots documenting everything)
Moderator contacts me in private, being passive agressive and giving subjective explanations I am seeking: An honest opnion of the situation, especially of the mod's behavior
What happened:
I posted two polls to r/tunisia . One to ask people how they watch reels (on which apps), the other to ask people what tunisian states they have visited. Both posts got a fair amount of poll responses, but hardly any upvotes. It was the first time I posted polls. I post other types of posts from time to time. My account is 6 years old.
Links to posts:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xie9k/how\_many\_tunisian\_states\_have\_you\_visited/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xie9k/how_many_tunisian_states_have_you_visited/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xi8c7/where\_do\_you\_watch\_reels/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xi8c7/where_do_you_watch_reels/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
I get contacted privately by a mod who has the flair 'mr bans-a-lot':
Mod: This is just a warning, stop with the needless polls.
Me: You mean the two polls? May I know why?
Mod: Because they're not relative to anything useful for the subreddit and are spam
\*\* All good up until this point \*\*
Me: Well that’s an opinion. Plus, I did not know that we only need to post useful stuff. I thought it was for Tunisia related stuff. Anyway, if you make it an extra rule in the subreddit (added to the rules in the about) I will happily comply.
Mod: You asked what states people have visited in Tunisia.
There ***is nothing to be gained*** by this and polls are used to help boost peoples accounts.
I ***believe*** that is what you were doing.
For your other poll you asked where people watched reels. That has literally nothing to do with Tunisia and that is already a rule that is posted.
You know both of those polls **were silly and stupid** and don't belong there so **don't act like you don't know as I don't have the patience for it**. I removed the posts and just send a PM to you to knock it off. So knock it off.
Me: Thanks for your respectful replies!
(I have screenshots documenting everything)
Permabanned for a rule, asked how I broke it, muted by mods for a monthIt's basically as simple as that. I've got the screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/Oy9y2fQ.
What I'd like: I'd like to know why, after 5 years of being a member in good standing of this community, I was perma'd without so much as a how do you do. This community is a support group, and to be unceremoniously kicked out of a support group feels like a heavy betrayal.
What happened: I was told that a comment violated rule 4 of the raisedbyborderlines rules. I responded to the message, asking for clarification from the mod team. Their response was to shut me down for a month. I finally reached out to one founding member and long term mod and received no response.
Edit to add the last comment I made in the sub: https://imgur.com/a/lKUlLAN
Permabanned for a rule, asked how I broke it, muted by mods for a monthIt's basically as simple as that. I've got the screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/Oy9y2fQ.
What I'd like: I'd like to know why, after 5 years of being a member in good standing of this community, I was perma'd without so much as a how do you do. This community is a support group, and to be unceremoniously kicked out of a support group feels like a heavy betrayal.
What happened: I was told that a comment violated rule 4 of the raisedbyborderlines rules. I responded to the message, asking for clarification from the mod team. Their response was to shut me down for a month. I finally reached out to one founding member and long term mod and received no response.
Edit to add the last comment I made in the sub: https://imgur.com/a/lKUlLAN
Permabanned for a rule, asked how I broke it, muted by mods for a monthIt's basically as simple as that. I've got the screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/Oy9y2fQ.
What I'd like: I'd like to know why, after 5 years of being a member in good standing of this community, I was perma'd without so much as a how do you do. This community is a support group, and to be unceremoniously kicked out of a support group feels like a heavy betrayal.
What happened: I was told that a comment violated rule 4 of the raisedbyborderlines rules. I responded to the message, asking for clarification from the mod team. Their response was to shut me down for a month. I finally reached out to one founding member and long term mod and received no response.
Edit to add the last comment I made in the sub: https://imgur.com/a/lKUlLAN
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Banned from a game-related sub for saying "I personally don’t think it’s right to put someone with a penis in a women’s prison"##I am seeking:
To be unbanned from the subreddit
## What happened:
I was banned for saying "I personally don't think it's right to put someone with a penis in a women's prison" because the mod deemed this transphobic. This is the conversation:
https://i.imgur.com/X3iC30T.png
This seems to be the action of a rogue mod who has the dangerously incorrect opinion that acknowledging the difference between gender and sex and presence or absence of genitals is equivalent to transphobia.
This mod's stance and actions are extremely malignant to the trans community and trans rights movement. If this mod's views were enacted, it would be responsible for the deaths of thousands of trans women around the world who would not be able to receive the sex-dependent medical care necessary. Attempting to erase the difference between sex and gender and to deny existence of genitals is alarmingly harmful behavior. Genitals are important in prisons for example because the employees there have to conduct strip searches, and the female employees of the female sex-segregated prisons certainly do not have it in their contract that they have to view and search naked people with a penis as part of their required duties. The purpose of a prison is not gender-affirmation or defining womanhood. It's to hold dangerous criminals, and for this purpose genitals are relevant.
However the point is not even how harmful this mod's views are. The issue in question is that the rule was no "transphobic comments". My comment was not transphobic and was not even a comment on gender.
If the mod's definition of transphobic was "any mention of sex-specific characteristics is transphobic. The mods view JK Rowling as transphobic and any comments expressing sympathy with her are also transphobic", then that definition should be made clear since it is not the actual meaning of the word and by no means clear from their pinned comment.
The mod is simply using the word "transphobic" as a blunt weapon to delete any comment they wish regardless of the applicability of the rule.
Banned from a game-related sub for saying "I personally don’t think it’s right to put someone with a penis in a women’s prison"##I am seeking:
To be unbanned from the subreddit
## What happened:
I was banned for saying "I personally don't think it's right to put someone with a penis in a women's prison" because the mod deemed this transphobic. This is the conversation:
https://i.imgur.com/X3iC30T.png
This seems to be the action of a rogue mod who has the dangerously incorrect opinion that acknowledging the difference between gender and sex and presence or absence of genitals is equivalent to transphobia.
This mod's stance and actions are extremely malignant to the trans community and trans rights movement. If this mod's views were enacted, it would be responsible for the deaths of thousands of trans women around the world who would not be able to receive the sex-dependent medical care necessary. Attempting to erase the difference between sex and gender and to deny existence of genitals is alarmingly harmful behavior. Genitals are important in prisons for example because the employees there have to conduct strip searches, and the female employees of the female sex-segregated prisons certainly do not have it in their contract that they have to view and search naked people with a penis as part of their required duties. The purpose of a prison is not gender-affirmation or defining womanhood. It's to hold dangerous criminals, and for this purpose genitals are relevant.
However the point is not even how harmful this mod's views are. The issue in question is that the rule was no "transphobic comments". My comment was not transphobic and was not even a comment on gender.
If the mod's definition of transphobic was "any mention of sex-specific characteristics is transphobic. The mods view JK Rowling as transphobic and any comments expressing sympathy with her are also transphobic", then that definition should be made clear since it is not the actual meaning of the word and by no means clear from their pinned comment.
The mod is simply using the word "transphobic" as a blunt weapon to delete any comment they wish regardless of the applicability of the rule.
Banned with no explanation, after posting a thread about my personal experiencesWhat I am seeking: To be unbanned from r/Teachers
I am seeking: To be unbanned
What happened: I posted a thread about my experiences dealing with racism as a first-generation immigrant teacher. My thread was at first accepted, [but then it was later deleted by the mods, and I was given a ban with no explanation](https://imgur.com/a/dw5867L). I believe this ban was unfair as I didn't actually violate any of the rules of the subreddit.
Here is a reveddit version of the thread. I do not believe my initial post broke any rules. [https://www.reveddit.com/v/Teachers/comments/110f78r/if\_you\_are\_a\_minority\_or\_1stgeneration\_immigrant/?removedby=mod%2Canti\_evil\_ops](https://www.reveddit.com/v/Teachers/comments/110f78r/if_you_are_a_minority_or_1stgeneration_immigrant/?removedby=mod%2Canti_evil_ops)
Banned with no explanation, after posting a thread about my personal experiencesWhat I am seeking: To be unbanned from r/Teachers
I am seeking: To be unbanned
What happened: I posted a thread about my experiences dealing with racism as a first-generation immigrant teacher. My thread was at first accepted, [but then it was later deleted by the mods, and I was given a ban with no explanation](https://imgur.com/a/dw5867L). I believe this ban was unfair as I didn't actually violate any of the rules of the subreddit.
Here is a reveddit version of the thread. I do not believe my initial post broke any rules. [https://www.reveddit.com/v/Teachers/comments/110f78r/if\_you\_are\_a\_minority\_or\_1stgeneration\_immigrant/?removedby=mod%2Canti\_evil\_ops](https://www.reveddit.com/v/Teachers/comments/110f78r/if_you_are_a_minority_or_1stgeneration_immigrant/?removedby=mod%2Canti_evil_ops)
Permaban from r/physics with no reason given.Hi. About a month ago I was seemingly randomly banned from r/physics, when I repeatedly enquired about a reason for my ban, I was muted, once again without reason.
Not once has a mod from the sub replied to my messages at all.
When I went through my post history, the last comment I made on that sub was "I love it!", as a reply to an image of a Mathematics related mug with Pythagoras and Einstein fighting over c² for their equations, which I found pretty cute. The original post was also deleted around that same time.
I feel insulted that they didn't even bother to tell me what I did wrong, although I still believe that I did nothing to warrant a ban.
Permaban from r/physics with no reason given.Hi. About a month ago I was seemingly randomly banned from r/physics, when I repeatedly enquired about a reason for my ban, I was muted, once again without reason.
Not once has a mod from the sub replied to my messages at all.
When I went through my post history, the last comment I made on that sub was "I love it!", as a reply to an image of a Mathematics related mug with Pythagoras and Einstein fighting over c² for their equations, which I found pretty cute. The original post was also deleted around that same time.
I feel insulted that they didn't even bother to tell me what I did wrong, although I still believe that I did nothing to warrant a ban.
Banned for "Promoting a Right-Wing Extremist Group"**I am seeking:** restoration into the OSR subreddit and for a response from the mods other than a knee-jerk "K."
**What happened:** A member on the OSR subreddit posted a [highly inflammatory and confrontational post](https://np.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/10zy5fo/new_patches_in_our_webstore/) while trying to garner sales for a patch he'd created. The patch said, "Punch Nazis Roll Dice" and the OP was laying on very heavy rhetoric in the comments. The community was divided between the "hell yeah, punch nazis and bash fascists, kick them out of the hobby" crowd and the "We shouldn't be promoting assaulting anyone based on differing ideology, especially when labeling is often used as an excuse" crowd.
Anyone against the "assaulting people" mindset was labeled as a Nazi, Nazi sympathizer, fascist, bigot, etc. Discourse to the contrary was shut down with hyperbolic ad-hom. Don't take my word for it, peruse the comments at your leisure.
At some point in the discourse, users began dredging my profile for reasons to shut me down, such as posting on conservative-based subreddits (because, surprise, I'm a republican conservative).
In the interest of full disclosure, I also subscribed to a membership with the Oathkeepers back in, eh, around 2010 (shortly after I'd gotten out of the military). Their tenets then (and now, as far as I can tell) were to resist unjust laws and orders issued by the U.S. Government, and to focus on building, sustaining, and supporting our communities in times of distress. Obviously, some of the OK leadership have been drug through the mud in the media for the last couple of years - which I don't have a comment on, as it has nothing to do with me or those tenets.
I have no problem discussing this with people when they ask or when it comes up because, again, nothing to hide because I've done nothing wrong - not that you'd think that if you read the Wikipedia page on the Oathkeepers, though. I'm used to being harassed because I'm a conservative, because I liked Donald Trump, or because I vote red. Nothing new.
However, in doxxing that information and dragging it into the thread, I was also (apparently) reported and summarily permabanned from OSR for "promoting a right-wing extremist organization on a TTRPG site."
I wasn't. Not only did I not promote anything of the such - defending my own actions and choices when directly attacked hardly counts - but the subreddit doesn't (or didn't) have any explicit rules against discussing political-themed topics (which is presumed because the OP created the post that he did \*and\* the conversation went on for about a full day before the mods decided to lock it). They also posted a [thread](https://np.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/110it6x/please_message_the_mods_prior_to_posting_any/) dealing with the controversy after the fact.
Again, in the interest of full disclosure, I have never nor would I ever support Nazi or fascist ideology. What I was attempting to convey was the rhetoric used in "Punch Nazis" is the same mindset used to label people who you don't agree with or like as "Nazi" or "fascist" or whatever, so you can feel justified in assaulting them and instigating or encouraging violence towards them. It's dangerous rhetoric that gets people hurt and killed, and it's ignorant and stupid. I said as much - and, again, you can read the results for yourself.
So, as to the ban itself: [This is a screencap of the interaction between me and the mods](https://ibb.co/nwCqBs5) when I was perma-banned for the alleged reason. I admit to being heated and frustrated - it doesn't matter how many times you get banned from a place because you have a difference in views or opinion, rather than actual misconduct, it still frustrates you - but I still feel like the things I said - while a bit heated - were still fairly tame. The one-word dismissive responses - "K." - were condescending and immature, however.
I'd have let it go - again, not my first rodeo, even if I really liked the community - but then the moderation crew [reported me to Reddit for "harassment"](https://ibb.co/cQdyJhX) \- linking the mod mail chat regarding the ban - with the following snippet:
"Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for harassing or bullying people. We don't tolerate any behaviors that discourage others from participating in communities, conversations, or the Reddit platform through harassment, bullying, intimidation, or abuse. Any communities or people that incite or engage in harassment or abuse towards an individual or group will be banned."
***I*** was the direct target of that behavior - the whole description applies to the way I was treated, not only by community users, but also by the moderators. And they had the gall to report *me* to Reddit?
I don't honestly expect them to un-ban me. Mods notoriously lean towards hatred of being called out for anything and being prone to power abuse. Still, I enjoyed the community and I don't feel I was treated or handled fairly *in the least* \- especially considering other users were being directly antagonistic, offensive, and abusive towards me. I want more of a resolution than what I received.
​
Edit: [An Unddit of the thread in question, for posterity.](https://www.unddit.com/r/osr/comments/10zy5fo/new_patches_in_our_webstore/) There were a host of deleted or removed comments.
Banned for "Promoting a Right-Wing Extremist Group"**I am seeking:** restoration into the OSR subreddit and for a response from the mods other than a knee-jerk "K."
**What happened:** A member on the OSR subreddit posted a [highly inflammatory and confrontational post](https://np.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/10zy5fo/new_patches_in_our_webstore/) while trying to garner sales for a patch he'd created. The patch said, "Punch Nazis Roll Dice" and the OP was laying on very heavy rhetoric in the comments. The community was divided between the "hell yeah, punch nazis and bash fascists, kick them out of the hobby" crowd and the "We shouldn't be promoting assaulting anyone based on differing ideology, especially when labeling is often used as an excuse" crowd.
Anyone against the "assaulting people" mindset was labeled as a Nazi, Nazi sympathizer, fascist, bigot, etc. Discourse to the contrary was shut down with hyperbolic ad-hom. Don't take my word for it, peruse the comments at your leisure.
At some point in the discourse, users began dredging my profile for reasons to shut me down, such as posting on conservative-based subreddits (because, surprise, I'm a republican conservative).
In the interest of full disclosure, I also subscribed to a membership with the Oathkeepers back in, eh, around 2010 (shortly after I'd gotten out of the military). Their tenets then (and now, as far as I can tell) were to resist unjust laws and orders issued by the U.S. Government, and to focus on building, sustaining, and supporting our communities in times of distress. Obviously, some of the OK leadership have been drug through the mud in the media for the last couple of years - which I don't have a comment on, as it has nothing to do with me or those tenets.
I have no problem discussing this with people when they ask or when it comes up because, again, nothing to hide because I've done nothing wrong - not that you'd think that if you read the Wikipedia page on the Oathkeepers, though. I'm used to being harassed because I'm a conservative, because I liked Donald Trump, or because I vote red. Nothing new.
However, in doxxing that information and dragging it into the thread, I was also (apparently) reported and summarily permabanned from OSR for "promoting a right-wing extremist organization on a TTRPG site."
I wasn't. Not only did I not promote anything of the such - defending my own actions and choices when directly attacked hardly counts - but the subreddit doesn't (or didn't) have any explicit rules against discussing political-themed topics (which is presumed because the OP created the post that he did \*and\* the conversation went on for about a full day before the mods decided to lock it). They also posted a [thread](https://np.reddit.com/r/osr/comments/110it6x/please_message_the_mods_prior_to_posting_any/) dealing with the controversy after the fact.
Again, in the interest of full disclosure, I have never nor would I ever support Nazi or fascist ideology. What I was attempting to convey was the rhetoric used in "Punch Nazis" is the same mindset used to label people who you don't agree with or like as "Nazi" or "fascist" or whatever, so you can feel justified in assaulting them and instigating or encouraging violence towards them. It's dangerous rhetoric that gets people hurt and killed, and it's ignorant and stupid. I said as much - and, again, you can read the results for yourself.
So, as to the ban itself: [This is a screencap of the interaction between me and the mods](https://ibb.co/nwCqBs5) when I was perma-banned for the alleged reason. I admit to being heated and frustrated - it doesn't matter how many times you get banned from a place because you have a difference in views or opinion, rather than actual misconduct, it still frustrates you - but I still feel like the things I said - while a bit heated - were still fairly tame. The one-word dismissive responses - "K." - were condescending and immature, however.
I'd have let it go - again, not my first rodeo, even if I really liked the community - but then the moderation crew [reported me to Reddit for "harassment"](https://ibb.co/cQdyJhX) \- linking the mod mail chat regarding the ban - with the following snippet:
"Reddit is a place for creating community and belonging, not for harassing or bullying people. We don't tolerate any behaviors that discourage others from participating in communities, conversations, or the Reddit platform through harassment, bullying, intimidation, or abuse. Any communities or people that incite or engage in harassment or abuse towards an individual or group will be banned."
***I*** was the direct target of that behavior - the whole description applies to the way I was treated, not only by community users, but also by the moderators. And they had the gall to report *me* to Reddit?
I don't honestly expect them to un-ban me. Mods notoriously lean towards hatred of being called out for anything and being prone to power abuse. Still, I enjoyed the community and I don't feel I was treated or handled fairly *in the least* \- especially considering other users were being directly antagonistic, offensive, and abusive towards me. I want more of a resolution than what I received.
​
Edit: [An Unddit of the thread in question, for posterity.](https://www.unddit.com/r/osr/comments/10zy5fo/new_patches_in_our_webstore/) There were a host of deleted or removed comments.
Permantly banned for abusive language towards an alleged daycare murdererI am seeking: a reduced ban from r/Quebec instead of a permanent ban and was directed to this sub for this purpose by the mods of that sub.
What happened:
3 days ago, [a man did something horrible in a city just outside Montreal and seems to have deliberately have crashed a bus in a daycare, two kids are dead 6 injured](https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/montreal/2023/2/8/1_6264755.amp.html)
Everyone in the province was very angry and emotional that day. I know people around that area where it happened so it was slightly more personal for me. [Then on this thread about the accused hitting a cop in court](https://np.reddit.com/r/Quebec/comments/10xetfd/comment/j7rx2wn/) I basically said (in a post that I deleted quickly after that since I was ashamed, didn't think I would have to post something in a sub like this one sorry) that he will know a lot about unwanted sexual advances in prison.
I do understand that it breaks the rules, I regret the language that I used, I understand and acknowledged that it is not acceptable and (some of it is in French sorry) [I owned up to it right away after the ban](https://imgur.com/a/Zf6Ypkj), even got a [3 day reddit ban](https://imgur.com/a/nXagT0o) for it, which I deserved.
Permantly banned for abusive language towards an alleged daycare murdererI am seeking: a reduced ban from r/Quebec instead of a permanent ban and was directed to this sub for this purpose by the mods of that sub.
What happened:
3 days ago, [a man did something horrible in a city just outside Montreal and seems to have deliberately have crashed a bus in a daycare, two kids are dead 6 injured](https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/montreal/2023/2/8/1_6264755.amp.html)
Everyone in the province was very angry and emotional that day. I know people around that area where it happened so it was slightly more personal for me. [Then on this thread about the accused hitting a cop in court](https://np.reddit.com/r/Quebec/comments/10xetfd/comment/j7rx2wn/) I basically said (in a post that I deleted quickly after that since I was ashamed, didn't think I would have to post something in a sub like this one sorry) that he will know a lot about unwanted sexual advances in prison.
I do understand that it breaks the rules, I regret the language that I used, I understand and acknowledged that it is not acceptable and (some of it is in French sorry) [I owned up to it right away after the ban](https://imgur.com/a/Zf6Ypkj), even got a [3 day reddit ban](https://imgur.com/a/nXagT0o) for it, which I deserved.
Muted for 28 days by r/wtf mods for questioning the way they operateI posted a wtf pic on r/wtf and it got removed. And i figure oh well it's fine until i notice the reason that was given when they removed it (repost) and it didn't make sense at all. So i send them a message asking for clarification and what followed was them moving from one excuse to another and finally they decided to mute me.
I'm not sure if there's something fishy going on behind the scenes but can someone help make sense of this?
Attaching pic of conversation: https://imgur.com/a/2A3X7c6
Muted for 28 days by r/wtf mods for questioning the way they operateI posted a wtf pic on r/wtf and it got removed. And i figure oh well it's fine until i notice the reason that was given when they removed it (repost) and it didn't make sense at all. So i send them a message asking for clarification and what followed was them moving from one excuse to another and finally they decided to mute me.
I'm not sure if there's something fishy going on behind the scenes but can someone help make sense of this?
Attaching pic of conversation: https://imgur.com/a/2A3X7c6
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Moderator contacts me in private, being passive agressive and giving subjective explanations I am seeking: An honest opnion of the situation, especially of the mod's behavior
What happened:
I posted two polls to r/tunisia . One to ask people how they watch reels (on which apps), the other to ask people what tunisian states they have visited. Both posts got a fair amount of poll responses, but hardly any upvotes. It was the first time I posted polls. I post other types of posts from time to time. My account is 6 years old.
Links to posts:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xie9k/how\_many\_tunisian\_states\_have\_you\_visited/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xie9k/how_many_tunisian_states_have_you_visited/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xi8c7/where\_do\_you\_watch\_reels/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xi8c7/where_do_you_watch_reels/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
I get contacted privately by a mod who has the flair 'mr bans-a-lot':
Mod: This is just a warning, stop with the needless polls.
Me: You mean the two polls? May I know why?
Mod: Because they're not relative to anything useful for the subreddit and are spam
\*\* All good up until this point \*\*
Me: Well that’s an opinion. Plus, I did not know that we only need to post useful stuff. I thought it was for Tunisia related stuff. Anyway, if you make it an extra rule in the subreddit (added to the rules in the about) I will happily comply.
Mod: You asked what states people have visited in Tunisia.
There ***is nothing to be gained*** by this and polls are used to help boost peoples accounts.
I ***believe*** that is what you were doing.
For your other poll you asked where people watched reels. That has literally nothing to do with Tunisia and that is already a rule that is posted.
You know both of those polls **were silly and stupid** and don't belong there so **don't act like you don't know as I don't have the patience for it**. I removed the posts and just send a PM to you to knock it off. So knock it off.
Me: Thanks for your respectful replies!
(I have screenshots documenting everything)
Moderator contacts me in private, being passive agressive and giving subjective explanations I am seeking: An honest opnion of the situation, especially of the mod's behavior
What happened:
I posted two polls to r/tunisia . One to ask people how they watch reels (on which apps), the other to ask people what tunisian states they have visited. Both posts got a fair amount of poll responses, but hardly any upvotes. It was the first time I posted polls. I post other types of posts from time to time. My account is 6 years old.
Links to posts:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xie9k/how\_many\_tunisian\_states\_have\_you\_visited/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xie9k/how_many_tunisian_states_have_you_visited/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xi8c7/where\_do\_you\_watch\_reels/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/10xi8c7/where_do_you_watch_reels/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
I get contacted privately by a mod who has the flair 'mr bans-a-lot':
Mod: This is just a warning, stop with the needless polls.
Me: You mean the two polls? May I know why?
Mod: Because they're not relative to anything useful for the subreddit and are spam
\*\* All good up until this point \*\*
Me: Well that’s an opinion. Plus, I did not know that we only need to post useful stuff. I thought it was for Tunisia related stuff. Anyway, if you make it an extra rule in the subreddit (added to the rules in the about) I will happily comply.
Mod: You asked what states people have visited in Tunisia.
There ***is nothing to be gained*** by this and polls are used to help boost peoples accounts.
I ***believe*** that is what you were doing.
For your other poll you asked where people watched reels. That has literally nothing to do with Tunisia and that is already a rule that is posted.
You know both of those polls **were silly and stupid** and don't belong there so **don't act like you don't know as I don't have the patience for it**. I removed the posts and just send a PM to you to knock it off. So knock it off.
Me: Thanks for your respectful replies!
(I have screenshots documenting everything)
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Permabanned for a rule, asked how I broke it, muted by mods for a monthIt's basically as simple as that. I've got the screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/Oy9y2fQ.
What I'd like: I'd like to know why, after 5 years of being a member in good standing of this community, I was perma'd without so much as a how do you do. This community is a support group, and to be unceremoniously kicked out of a support group feels like a heavy betrayal.
What happened: I was told that a comment violated rule 4 of the raisedbyborderlines rules. I responded to the message, asking for clarification from the mod team. Their response was to shut me down for a month. I finally reached out to one founding member and long term mod and received no response.
Edit to add the last comment I made in the sub: https://imgur.com/a/lKUlLAN
Permabanned for a rule, asked how I broke it, muted by mods for a monthIt's basically as simple as that. I've got the screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/Oy9y2fQ.
What I'd like: I'd like to know why, after 5 years of being a member in good standing of this community, I was perma'd without so much as a how do you do. This community is a support group, and to be unceremoniously kicked out of a support group feels like a heavy betrayal.
What happened: I was told that a comment violated rule 4 of the raisedbyborderlines rules. I responded to the message, asking for clarification from the mod team. Their response was to shut me down for a month. I finally reached out to one founding member and long term mod and received no response.
Edit to add the last comment I made in the sub: https://imgur.com/a/lKUlLAN
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Permabanned for laughing at a bad meme
I laughed, admittedly guiltily, at a bad meme on r/terriblefacebookmemes. I was banned almost immediately even though I didn't break any of their rules. And when I said as much in the ban notification the mod muted me saying "we wouldnt have to ban anybody if it werent for people like you". People like who? People who laugh at stupid memes? It's such an egregious and pathetic abuse of power. I wish reddit allowed us to report abusive moderators for this sort of thing.
Permabanned for laughing at a bad meme
I laughed, admittedly guiltily, at a bad meme on r/terriblefacebookmemes. I was banned almost immediately even though I didn't break any of their rules. And when I said as much in the ban notification the mod muted me saying "we wouldnt have to ban anybody if it werent for people like you". People like who? People who laugh at stupid memes? It's such an egregious and pathetic abuse of power. I wish reddit allowed us to report abusive moderators for this sort of thing.
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Perma banned for a unknown reason**I'm seeking:** I want to be unbanned from the subreddit and better understand the reason for the ban.
**What happened:** I posted something on their Discord server that they said was not allowed. Then I tried to contact the associated subreddit r/techsupport to get unbanned from Discord. I tried to explain what happened, but they wouldn't listen and said if I post the same question in the subreddit, it will be banned there too. After I explained that, they perma banned me for no reason. I tried to get unbanned but they kept saying I wouldn't get unbanned and then they muted me.
Perma banned for a unknown reason**I'm seeking:** I want to be unbanned from the subreddit and better understand the reason for the ban.
**What happened:** I posted something on their Discord server that they said was not allowed. Then I tried to contact the associated subreddit r/techsupport to get unbanned from Discord. I tried to explain what happened, but they wouldn't listen and said if I post the same question in the subreddit, it will be banned there too. After I explained that, they perma banned me for no reason. I tried to get unbanned but they kept saying I wouldn't get unbanned and then they muted me.
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Thread deleted from r/4x4 no explanation for the deletion and no reply to modmail.This one is mild compared to a lot of stuff there. Just a thread deletion and a failure to reply to messages. Not a ban.
What I'm seeking: Why do you think this was deleted?
What happened: I posted the following thread on [r/4x4](https://www.reddit.com/r/4x4/) asking for users opinions on a Chinese 4x4. It took me a while to write said thread because I had to translate several things from Chinese.
Here is the removed thread: [https://www.unddit.com/r/4x4/comments/10t1nvs/what\_do\_you\_think\_of\_this\_4x4\_beijing\_autoworks/](https://www.unddit.com/r/4x4/comments/10t1nvs/what_do_you_think_of_this_4x4_beijing_autoworks/)
It was promptly deleted 10 minutes later with no explanation other than the default "moderators delete threads for a variety of blah blah blah".
I messaged the mods to tell me what rule I broke and I got no reply. It was nothing beyond "Hey why was my thread deleted?" No profanity or getting mad.
As far as I can tell I didn't break any of the subs rules. There is no rule against asking people's opinion on a car, and there are several other threads on the front page asking exactly that.
This is reddits biggest 4x4 sub and as someone who wants to get into this hobby, it's really annoying to have a long post you typed out be deleted with no warning and when you ask "why?" you just get ignored.
Thread deleted from r/4x4 no explanation for the deletion and no reply to modmail.This one is mild compared to a lot of stuff there. Just a thread deletion and a failure to reply to messages. Not a ban.
What I'm seeking: Why do you think this was deleted?
What happened: I posted the following thread on [r/4x4](https://www.reddit.com/r/4x4/) asking for users opinions on a Chinese 4x4. It took me a while to write said thread because I had to translate several things from Chinese.
Here is the removed thread: [https://www.unddit.com/r/4x4/comments/10t1nvs/what\_do\_you\_think\_of\_this\_4x4\_beijing\_autoworks/](https://www.unddit.com/r/4x4/comments/10t1nvs/what_do_you_think_of_this_4x4_beijing_autoworks/)
It was promptly deleted 10 minutes later with no explanation other than the default "moderators delete threads for a variety of blah blah blah".
I messaged the mods to tell me what rule I broke and I got no reply. It was nothing beyond "Hey why was my thread deleted?" No profanity or getting mad.
As far as I can tell I didn't break any of the subs rules. There is no rule against asking people's opinion on a car, and there are several other threads on the front page asking exactly that.
This is reddits biggest 4x4 sub and as someone who wants to get into this hobby, it's really annoying to have a long post you typed out be deleted with no warning and when you ask "why?" you just get ignored.
"Anti-woke" is literally code for neo-fascist so I really don't understand why you're so confused here. I'm sorry you had to find out that you are vibing with neo-fascist viewpoints this way, but you're legit vibing with neo-fascist viewpoints.
Maybe this can be a time for you to look inward and think about what about _social justice_ warriors or being woke actually troubles you, and why?
Also note that not every single thing a person publicizes has to be neo-fascist/fascist in nature for them to be a problem. In fact, it's a pretty common tactic to say a lot of reasonable things/appear to be progressive before slipping in some radically right/dog whistle content.
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That's deplorable behavior by a mod in as general or default-looking a subreddit as r/comics. They didn't provide any evidence that she's neo-fascist.
Edit: Wait, am I being judgmental and thus not following the rules? If so, I'll edit the post. Just let me know.
I have a neurological condition and thus cannot easily process.
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>rare that a different moderator of a subreddit will override a ban based on an opinion like this, because that's what destroys mod teams.
Internet moderation culture is pretty barbaric. It's tribal. "Stick together no matter what." They trow ethics under the bus, if it means they can all have their power, usually. Not to say politics aren't always better, but at least there's many ways to make complaints, etc. On Reddit, there's so little recourse. And that's a problem on Discord too.
What is the saddest is seeing moderators in mental health support communities be hostile, and even break their own rules, etc.
Banned froma subreddit, I'd like to know if I'm making the right move
HI everyone, I'm posting this on this sub to have your opinion on this.if this is the wrong sub feel free to redirect me if you can.
I've been banned from a sub ( [r/crazyfuckingvideo](https://www.reddit.com/r/crazyfuckingvideo/) ) I think because I've violated the rule saying not to joke about violent acts or tragedies. Here is the link of the video and my comment following :
[(7) Wait, what? : CrazyFuckingVideos (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/10w2lp7/wait_what/)
"Asshole move, I still laughed tho"
So it's funny (no pun intended) but in retrospect I find it less "laughable" than my first viewing, I might be to blamed, at least in part.
So while I may have been careless and not capturing this situation for all it was, right after watching the video I just didn't felt compelled nor the need to justify that answer, I'm not glorifying evil acts, and I had a lot more in my mind than what I just wrote, like just a random reddit comment meaning no real harm or after thought. If I knew such "heavy" moderation was at play, I might have posted the depth of my thought, especially if this could result in such an easy ban.
I would've then add my thought, "I still laughed, **and/but** it would've been funny if it was friends joke (because the video really looked like it)."
But thinking about this now, I don't like going somewhere and having to weigh every of my statements and being in a place leaving almost no room to differentiate from the norm.
What do you think about all of this ? Thanks for answers
Banned froma subreddit, I'd like to know if I'm making the right move
HI everyone, I'm posting this on this sub to have your opinion on this.if this is the wrong sub feel free to redirect me if you can.
I've been banned from a sub ( [r/crazyfuckingvideo](https://www.reddit.com/r/crazyfuckingvideo/) ) I think because I've violated the rule saying not to joke about violent acts or tragedies. Here is the link of the video and my comment following :
[(7) Wait, what? : CrazyFuckingVideos (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/10w2lp7/wait_what/)
"Asshole move, I still laughed tho"
So it's funny (no pun intended) but in retrospect I find it less "laughable" than my first viewing, I might be to blamed, at least in part.
So while I may have been careless and not capturing this situation for all it was, right after watching the video I just didn't felt compelled nor the need to justify that answer, I'm not glorifying evil acts, and I had a lot more in my mind than what I just wrote, like just a random reddit comment meaning no real harm or after thought. If I knew such "heavy" moderation was at play, I might have posted the depth of my thought, especially if this could result in such an easy ban.
I would've then add my thought, "I still laughed, **and/but** it would've been funny if it was friends joke (because the video really looked like it)."
But thinking about this now, I don't like going somewhere and having to weigh every of my statements and being in a place leaving almost no room to differentiate from the norm.
What do you think about all of this ? Thanks for answers
That's deplorable behavior by a mod in as general or default-looking a subreddit as r/comics. They didn't provide any evidence that she's neo-fascist.
Edit: Wait, am I being judgmental and thus not following the rules? If so, I'll edit the post. Just let me know.
I have a neurological condition and thus cannot easily process.
>rare that a different moderator of a subreddit will override a ban based on an opinion like this, because that's what destroys mod teams.
Internet moderation culture is pretty barbaric. It's tribal. "Stick together no matter what." They trow ethics under the bus, if it means they can all have their power, usually. Not to say politics aren't always better, but at least there's many ways to make complaints, etc. On Reddit, there's so little recourse. And that's a problem on Discord too.
What is the saddest is seeing moderators in mental health support communities be hostile, and even break their own rules, etc.
Thread deleted from r/4x4 no explanation for the deletion and no reply to modmail.This one is mild compared to a lot of stuff there. Just a thread deletion and a failure to reply to messages. Not a ban.
What I'm seeking: Why do you think this was deleted?
What happened: I posted the following thread on [r/4x4](https://www.reddit.com/r/4x4/) asking for users opinions on a Chinese 4x4. It took me a while to write said thread because I had to translate several things from Chinese.
Here is the removed thread: [https://www.unddit.com/r/4x4/comments/10t1nvs/what\_do\_you\_think\_of\_this\_4x4\_beijing\_autoworks/](https://www.unddit.com/r/4x4/comments/10t1nvs/what_do_you_think_of_this_4x4_beijing_autoworks/)
It was promptly deleted 10 minutes later with no explanation other than the default "moderators delete threads for a variety of blah blah blah".
I messaged the mods to tell me what rule I broke and I got no reply. It was nothing beyond "Hey why was my thread deleted?" No profanity or getting mad.
As far as I can tell I didn't break any of the subs rules. There is no rule against asking people's opinion on a car, and there are several other threads on the front page asking exactly that.
This is reddits biggest 4x4 sub and as someone who wants to get into this hobby, it's really annoying to have a long post you typed out be deleted with no warning and when you ask "why?" you just get ignored.
Thread deleted from r/4x4 no explanation for the deletion and no reply to modmail.This one is mild compared to a lot of stuff there. Just a thread deletion and a failure to reply to messages. Not a ban.
What I'm seeking: Why do you think this was deleted?
What happened: I posted the following thread on [r/4x4](https://www.reddit.com/r/4x4/) asking for users opinions on a Chinese 4x4. It took me a while to write said thread because I had to translate several things from Chinese.
Here is the removed thread: [https://www.unddit.com/r/4x4/comments/10t1nvs/what\_do\_you\_think\_of\_this\_4x4\_beijing\_autoworks/](https://www.unddit.com/r/4x4/comments/10t1nvs/what_do_you_think_of_this_4x4_beijing_autoworks/)
It was promptly deleted 10 minutes later with no explanation other than the default "moderators delete threads for a variety of blah blah blah".
I messaged the mods to tell me what rule I broke and I got no reply. It was nothing beyond "Hey why was my thread deleted?" No profanity or getting mad.
As far as I can tell I didn't break any of the subs rules. There is no rule against asking people's opinion on a car, and there are several other threads on the front page asking exactly that.
This is reddits biggest 4x4 sub and as someone who wants to get into this hobby, it's really annoying to have a long post you typed out be deleted with no warning and when you ask "why?" you just get ignored.
"Anti-woke" is literally code for neo-fascist so I really don't understand why you're so confused here. I'm sorry you had to find out that you are vibing with neo-fascist viewpoints this way, but you're legit vibing with neo-fascist viewpoints.
Maybe this can be a time for you to look inward and think about what about _social justice_ warriors or being woke actually troubles you, and why?
Also note that not every single thing a person publicizes has to be neo-fascist/fascist in nature for them to be a problem. In fact, it's a pretty common tactic to say a lot of reasonable things/appear to be progressive before slipping in some radically right/dog whistle content.
Permabanned for a rule, asked how I broke it, muted by mods for a monthIt's basically as simple as that. I've got the screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/Oy9y2fQ.
What I'd like: I'd like to know why, after 5 years of being a member in good standing of this community, I was perma'd without so much as a how do you do. This community is a support group, and to be unceremoniously kicked out of a support group feels like a heavy betrayal.
What happened: I was told that a comment violated rule 4 of the raisedbyborderlines rules. I responded to the message, asking for clarification from the mod team. Their response was to shut me down for a month. I finally reached out to one founding member and long term mod and received no response.
Edit to add the last comment I made in the sub: https://imgur.com/a/lKUlLAN
Permabanned for a rule, asked how I broke it, muted by mods for a monthIt's basically as simple as that. I've got the screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/Oy9y2fQ.
What I'd like: I'd like to know why, after 5 years of being a member in good standing of this community, I was perma'd without so much as a how do you do. This community is a support group, and to be unceremoniously kicked out of a support group feels like a heavy betrayal.
What happened: I was told that a comment violated rule 4 of the raisedbyborderlines rules. I responded to the message, asking for clarification from the mod team. Their response was to shut me down for a month. I finally reached out to one founding member and long term mod and received no response.
Edit to add the last comment I made in the sub: https://imgur.com/a/lKUlLAN
But what if they aren’t sorry? Maybe that sub needs different mods. LOL
But what if they aren’t sorry? Maybe that sub needs different mods. LOL
Permabanned for laughing at a bad meme
I laughed, admittedly guiltily, at a bad meme on r/terriblefacebookmemes. I was banned almost immediately even though I didn't break any of their rules. And when I said as much in the ban notification the mod muted me saying "we wouldnt have to ban anybody if it werent for people like you". People like who? People who laugh at stupid memes? It's such an egregious and pathetic abuse of power. I wish reddit allowed us to report abusive moderators for this sort of thing.
Permabanned for laughing at a bad meme
I laughed, admittedly guiltily, at a bad meme on r/terriblefacebookmemes. I was banned almost immediately even though I didn't break any of their rules. And when I said as much in the ban notification the mod muted me saying "we wouldnt have to ban anybody if it werent for people like you". People like who? People who laugh at stupid memes? It's such an egregious and pathetic abuse of power. I wish reddit allowed us to report abusive moderators for this sort of thing.
Perma banned for a unknown reason**I'm seeking:** I want to be unbanned from the subreddit and better understand the reason for the ban.
**What happened:** I posted something on their Discord server that they said was not allowed. Then I tried to contact the associated subreddit r/techsupport to get unbanned from Discord. I tried to explain what happened, but they wouldn't listen and said if I post the same question in the subreddit, it will be banned there too. After I explained that, they perma banned me for no reason. I tried to get unbanned but they kept saying I wouldn't get unbanned and then they muted me.
Perma banned for a unknown reason**I'm seeking:** I want to be unbanned from the subreddit and better understand the reason for the ban.
**What happened:** I posted something on their Discord server that they said was not allowed. Then I tried to contact the associated subreddit r/techsupport to get unbanned from Discord. I tried to explain what happened, but they wouldn't listen and said if I post the same question in the subreddit, it will be banned there too. After I explained that, they perma banned me for no reason. I tried to get unbanned but they kept saying I wouldn't get unbanned and then they muted me.
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I got banned on r/techsupport**I'm seeking:** I want to be unbanned from the subreddit and better understand the reason for the ban.
**What happened:** I posted something on their Discord server that they said was not allowed. Then I tried to contact the associated subreddit r/techsupport to get unbanned from Discord. I tried to explain what happened, but they wouldn't listen and said if I post the same question in the subreddit, it will be banned there too. After I explained that, they perma banned me for no reason. I tried to get unbanned but they kept saying I wouldn't get unbanned and then they muted me.
I got banned on r/techsupport**I'm seeking:** I want to be unbanned from the subreddit and better understand the reason for the ban.
**What happened:** I posted something on their Discord server that they said was not allowed. Then I tried to contact the associated subreddit r/techsupport to get unbanned from Discord. I tried to explain what happened, but they wouldn't listen and said if I post the same question in the subreddit, it will be banned there too. After I explained that, they perma banned me for no reason. I tried to get unbanned but they kept saying I wouldn't get unbanned and then they muted me.