This is effectively how I got permabanned as well. Not with an alt, but I made a new account for reasons unrelated to bans, deleted my old account first, and when I commented on something on the front page, they banned me from the whole site for ban evasion.
2 years later (about a week ago), a search brought me to a post where someone has a file I would like. They seemed excited to share it with whoever wants it, but will only share it via DM for some reason instead of just positing it. I made an account and heard you can’t DM people right away, so I made some comments to get past the spam restrictions all over the place. I somehow got banned from the personal finance sub, I have no idea why, and it says they blocked me from even asking. 2 or 3 other subs deleted my comments automatically based on the account age. I assume if I accidentally try and comment again I’ll be banned. It has been a horrible user experience.
Being banned was the best thing that ever happened to me. Enjoy the freedom.
Thanks, I kind of feel like I got unplugged from the matrix. A ton of existential anxiety just flooded back in but I also realize that Reddit probably wasn't the most efficient place for me to spend most of my time in.
I really miss r/homelabs though, that place is a treasure amidst the swamp of gender wars that the rest of the subreddits are
You have my sympathies, Reddit is a Kafkaesque nightmare for anyone unlucky enough to hit one of the increasing number of edge-cases and invisible hazards.
My decade+ single account (in good standing, maybe one permanent subreddit ban ever, thousands of pages of comments, etc.) got shadowbanned one morning for no reason I've ever been able to find. The appeal was actually "granted", but somehow they didn't actually turn off the evil-bit, and then I couldn't contact anyone because the appeals-page claims my account was normal while all other stuff kept getting removed even after moderators manually approved it.
Yeah, I actually stopped everything in the morning and thought about it for a while.
The rigid resistance to preventing users from protecting themselves from a _sitewide permanent ban_ feels ridiculous in retrospect.
I don't know if this is a reach, but it honestly feels like Reddit is trying to do two things:
- monetize attrition (manufacture traffic by forcing users to create new accounts)
- intermittent reinforcement/love bombing. I used to have an ex who performed the exact same pattern; start out loving and affectionate, then rapidly deteriorate into a wrongful accusations (in reddit's case, wrongful bans) which would just become a massive time-sink. Then she would "repeal" or reinstate me to keep me captive/grateful... then repeat the whole cycle again and again.
I was thinking about the panic I felt earlier, and the pattern was pretty much identical- harm, apology, relief, re-engagement, harm again, without ever committing to a low-cost and obvious fix.
I am really really starting to think that Reddit's "ban evasion" system is by design at this point
Hey, I've been on Twitter before. I've seen the @RedditLies account and I think there's really too much gunk to sift through, never had the time to check how much of it was true. I appreciate the sentiment though.
This is effectively how I got permabanned as well. Not with an alt, but I made a new account for reasons unrelated to bans, deleted my old account first, and when I commented on something on the front page, they banned me from the whole site for ban evasion.
2 years later (about a week ago), a search brought me to a post where someone has a file I would like. They seemed excited to share it with whoever wants it, but will only share it via DM for some reason instead of just positing it. I made an account and heard you can’t DM people right away, so I made some comments to get past the spam restrictions all over the place. I somehow got banned from the personal finance sub, I have no idea why, and it says they blocked me from even asking. 2 or 3 other subs deleted my comments automatically based on the account age. I assume if I accidentally try and comment again I’ll be banned. It has been a horrible user experience.
Being banned was the best thing that ever happened to me. Enjoy the freedom.
Thanks, I kind of feel like I got unplugged from the matrix. A ton of existential anxiety just flooded back in but I also realize that Reddit probably wasn't the most efficient place for me to spend most of my time in.
I really miss r/homelabs though, that place is a treasure amidst the swamp of gender wars that the rest of the subreddits are
You have my sympathies, Reddit is a Kafkaesque nightmare for anyone unlucky enough to hit one of the increasing number of edge-cases and invisible hazards.
My decade+ single account (in good standing, maybe one permanent subreddit ban ever, thousands of pages of comments, etc.) got shadowbanned one morning for no reason I've ever been able to find. The appeal was actually "granted", but somehow they didn't actually turn off the evil-bit, and then I couldn't contact anyone because the appeals-page claims my account was normal while all other stuff kept getting removed even after moderators manually approved it.
Yeah, I actually stopped everything in the morning and thought about it for a while.
The rigid resistance to preventing users from protecting themselves from a _sitewide permanent ban_ feels ridiculous in retrospect.
I don't know if this is a reach, but it honestly feels like Reddit is trying to do two things:
- monetize attrition (manufacture traffic by forcing users to create new accounts)
- intermittent reinforcement/love bombing. I used to have an ex who performed the exact same pattern; start out loving and affectionate, then rapidly deteriorate into a wrongful accusations (in reddit's case, wrongful bans) which would just become a massive time-sink. Then she would "repeal" or reinstate me to keep me captive/grateful... then repeat the whole cycle again and again.
I was thinking about the panic I felt earlier, and the pattern was pretty much identical- harm, apology, relief, re-engagement, harm again, without ever committing to a low-cost and obvious fix.
I am really really starting to think that Reddit's "ban evasion" system is by design at this point
Why do you need to post? What did it ever do for you besides occupy your time?
Look up: Eglin AFB, maxwellhill, RedditLies, etc.
Hey, I've been on Twitter before. I've seen the @RedditLies account and I think there's really too much gunk to sift through, never had the time to check how much of it was true. I appreciate the sentiment though.