I had been on reddit for over 10 years. I had a huge karma total. I was a mod of several groups. Some political some not. As a mod I never banned anyone unless they obviously broke the group rules, called for violence, or harassed others.
About 5 years ago I was Permanently banned site wide. The post or comment (I don’t remember anymore) violated NO rules but apparently got many “reports”. After about 3 months I was finally able to find an Admin who reviewed my case. They reinstated me and came right out and said that I should not have been banned.
Then about a year ago I was permanently site wide banned again. Same scenario. Obviously broke no rules. But I’ll bet there were tons of “reports” which I think catches the attention of the admins. In my experience there I also saw numerous cases of trolls that would get pissed off at someone and then systematically go through their history and “report” every comment and post.
In the groups that I moderated I would see all the constant “reports”. Most were always from the same people who apparently had empty lives.
I have tried the standard appeal process without even an engagement over the issue by an Admin. I get the feeling that it is totally automated now and there are no actual ban reviews.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get to an individual Admin where I could actually discuss my ban?
Personally, I’d suggest you take this as a good reason to move on. It’s obvious they don’t care who gets caught up in their subpar moderation and even if you do find the right person to help you there’s nothing stopping it from happening a third time.
good point that I didn’t consider. why go through the hassle if based on prior experience it would probably happen again.
Weren’t you banned from Lemm.ee for posting scat porn in a tech community and dumping a bunch of comments in an Autism community calling them the R word? You ran the conservativememes2 community too. The echo chamber where you could crosspost all your atheist memes and ban anybody else who called you out.
It seems you have a history of being banned. I don’t really buy that you were banned after violating no rules.
Weren’t you banned from Lemm.ee for posting scat porn in a tech community and dumping a bunch of comments in an Autism community calling them the R word? You ran the conservativememes2 community too.
I did NONE of those things. I have never posted any kind of porn anywhere and never would.
I have a nephew who is autistic and will scream out at anyone who refers to those afflicted with that condition as retarded.
When I moderated groups at reddit I would ban those who wished me dead or called for violence against me. Do you think that was OK?
You SNAPPED. Who let you back?
I don’t know what you are talking about. I have stated that I am still banned at reddit. No one let me back and I believe that their appeal process is now automated. So in effect you can never actually make a case as to why you should be reinstated.
Not talking about Reddit, who let you back on Lemmy?
What’s the submission in question?
It’s been a year since this happened. I honestly don’t remember, but I think it was a comment. A comment where I was paraphrasing a point made in a published news article. Apparently just mentioning something that others didn’t “like” was enough to piss people off.
Forgive me for my skepticism, but too many times I’ve seen people complaining about the same thing as you only to get busted for having a comment history calling for genocide or filled with racial slurs.
LOL. I never once called for violence. I am not white and not a racist. And I never even called another poster an asshole. My thing was always lets have a civil discussion. And I guess my point is that all the things that we both would agree on that should cause a ban did not apply to me.
‘Calling for violence’ is a massively subjective determination
I don’t think it is.
