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  • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Wow, I’ve never seen them actually pull ads for membership. Site must be struggling for real users. Bot takeover isn’t working out, shouldn’t have banned the top users for petty bullshit.

    The archive of past posts and problem solving is the greatest value of the site.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      raises hand

      Literally in the top 1% of karma users in 2023. Banned in 2024 for…

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      …posting a comment that my bike was stolen when I was 7.

      Reddit claims the ban was done by a human. However I just cannot see a human looking at the post I got banned for, and saying “This guy deserves to get banned”.

      My best theory, based on the timeline, is that they offered me a presale enter IPO offering before it went public. At the time I was on cancer treatment, and had $0 income, with my two sisters and mom paying for my apartment.

      I had no ability to buy an IPO.

      3 days after it went public, I still didn’t own stock, and was banned. Because I said my bike was stolen 30+ years earlier.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      15 hours ago

      They’ve done it before in the USA. My guess is that they want to push their non-English offerings, which is something they’ve only focused on recently.