On a discussion about a revolution in Canada I merely suggested that there are no resources to protect the rich in the event of a revolution breaking out.

I even went on to explain I can't even kill ants though so count me out.

Perma banned for inciting violence, appeal gives you 100 characters to explain so I won't bother. How do you appeal a site wide ban in one sentence?

12 years of contributing to IT communities and it's all gone, that's what I'm upset about.

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[+] 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)
  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I wonder if they did a deep dive through my comments and saw more they didn't like. It just doesn't make sense given the flagged comment alone

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  • [+] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)
  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah I exclusively used reddit through firefox on android with script blocker and adblocker. Never spent a dime on reddit. This explains a lot if true

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Eh, sounds like a conspiracy theory. It's the kind of thing that would look really bad if it got out, but doesn't have much upside.

    If it signifit affected profits, maybe, but this doesn't register there.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    How would it "look bad"? The people that are paying for Reddit wouldn't give a shit, and the people that aren't making the site profitable would be outraged for 15 minutes, and then get over it.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I used reddit on desktop, didnt have an ad blocker, ocassionally clicked on ads (usually by mistake), and bought a shitload of coins. I also contributed a lot of content that people found helpful. Didnt stop me getting perma banned for reasons that I still dont understand.

    I really dont think there is any algorithm or any logic or rationale behind the ban process at all, its almost completely aritrary

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Banned from a sinking ship.

    Glad to have you.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Banned from Reddit site wide ? That’s crazy

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Reddit being reddit: Their report system is easily gamed and regularly abused.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yup. Seems every time I get the best of some troll (in my mind at least) they report the comment and I get banned. I could be wrong, but my last banning was for literally calling someone a troll. LOL.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Same thing happened to me. My comment was “kid deserved it” on a video where, at school a kid called a teacher the n-word and then squared up to fight him. The teacher punched the kid in the face.

    That was my comment and there were others saying pretty much the same thing both above and below my comment. 10,000 karma gone.

    I’ve been banned from subs before but never from the whole site. Interestingly that was not my only account banned. My main account (which I never post on) was also banned and when I made a new account, that was banned as well.

    My theory is that someone flagged me for something and then went to all my posts and also flagged them and a limit was reached that just autobans site wide. That’s the theory anyway.

    The funny thing is that all my comments are pretty benign and I actively fight against racism and bigotry on Reddit. I was one of the good guys!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    They know your IP address. Any account that logs in with the same IP gets banned.

    So you could try a VPN.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Fuck reddit.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's not consistent either. I made a joke about using child molesters to see if ancient torture methods actually worked or not and got permabanned. At the same time the front page had a post about some shitty thing HP did with their printers and 100s of the top comments were saying the same kind of shit about their executives. None of those were even removed. I linked it when I appealed but just got the canned "fuck you" message.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    the amount of relief that I felt when I was finally permanently banned from Reddit

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, they always loved protecting their rich baby kid spez while letting Neonazis fantasise about genocides.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I made r/Artisanvideos and they still banned me over a tongue in cheek comment for "inciting violence" right around the time the capitol riots were happening. I think the truth of the matter is someone there getting rid of ideological opposition and using whatever technicality they can. It's kinda like how the scotus is positioning themselves to decide whether a crime is official or personal.

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    How would you cause this revolution, which the rich cannot be protected from, to come about? Theoretically?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I think it's going to happen naturally, canadian youth have basically nothing to lose at this point. We also have mass immigration from india the last few years, majority are aged 25-40 males, and we are already dealing with gang violence which we've never had in canada before, things just seem to be ramping up.

    /r/CanadianTeachers is a fascinating insight into the way kids are thinking these days.

    We basically have no law enforcement or military so unless the USA comes in to help it will probably look something like the purge.

    There is also a really bad class divide just between those who own homes and rent and I see examples of resentment over this every single day.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Just got banned for a week for for telling someone they were trolling for calling Biden the Caligula of the US. Still not quite sure why, but my second account got banned too for trying to avoid my ban.. LOL.

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