I was just interested to see how much had changed since December when I was randomly banned with no reason given and the appeal went unheard.
I was just planning to browse and not log in but it immediately gave me a pop-up notification to create an account.
Curious if it would allow me, I submitted the application and it went through without problem.
I didn’t want to draw too much attention to myself, so I didn’t comment or post for the first month.
Then, I made another mistake. I got invested, again and it didn’t take long before it inevitably became political.
I posted a reply to someone who had clearly been chugging the orange kool-aid. Nothing terrible, just what I thought was objective reality, easily verifiable through past reporting through many credible media outlets.
But, reddit is going to reddit. Somehow objective reality has been classified as hate speech on reddit.
I’m not surprissd. Just a little disappointed.
I appealed, I do not expect a reply.
Previously, I had been on reddit for 10 years without much incident.
This time I lasted only 2 months
I was on for 12 years, nearly a million Karma, and was banned in February, right after The Goblin met with Spez, for a comment I’d previously posted many times without an issue.
I evaded the ban for a while, but they got better and better at finding me, and banning me. It seems like once they identify you as a ban evader, they start going through the suspension protocol. First it’s 3 days, then a week, then it’s permanent.
I missed it at first, then I realized that I missed the old Reddit. The new Reddit really, really sucks. I just miss the active guitar and cat subs.
i was part of the february purge too, for REPORTING misinformation about trump. on r/tech, that gave me a temp ban, then a triggered a full multi account ban, with no explanation at all. reddit was testing thier newly deployed AI moderation in FEB.
It’s difficult to leave my niche subs, but fucking hell there’s soooo much bot content. Like, I come to lemmy and am suddenly reminded of how humans talk.
50% WAS bot content, mostly propaganda, by like 2023-2024. and then the non-propaganda bots(the one who trying to build up thier OF profiles, or link dropping service).
it seems reddit starting to unilaterally removing random posts and content on thier own now.
I missed AskHistorians for a little while when I left, but I checked back recently and it’s clear that all the interesting history questions were asked and answered years ago. All that’s left is “what if Hitler had three balls instead of one?” over and over again.
I know what you mean. Half the answers, if they even answer it all, were links to the last 2 or 3 times the question was asked.
What is “a ban evader”
ban evasion, is when either get subreddit ban, or sitewide ban, and create new multiple accounts to post in the same subs you got banned, or if you got shadow or sitewide perman ban. you used a different device and ip to get around that ban.
at first it wasnt a problem for reddit, if you avoid the subs you got banned, or if arnt a serial ban evader. now they target all your accounts if they can connect you to same person, that havent participate in the sub for a while.
Someone who has been banned, but they start a new account under a new name. Reddit prohibits that, and will ban you again.