Went out with a bang. Absolutely worth it. I had to delete my account myself, what a hassle.
They permanently banned my 9yo account with 2 million karma for using the “boxes of Liberty” metaphor in a highly up voted comment about Republicans taking away access to voting. They said it was a threat of violence. 🙄 Meanwhile fascists make literal death threats in conservative subs with no consequences.
The site has systematically been banning high volume contributors who aren’t right wing enough for at least the last 3 months. They, like Twitter, are trying to suppress the voices of people who are against fascism. It is deliberate and planned.
Not to be conspiratorial, but this is an aspect I’ve pondered that hasn’t gotten much discussion: given spez’s fanboy emulation of Musk, we could see Reddit become a lot more right-wing as those voices are the ones allowed to continue, like-minded mods are put in place, etc…which means those folks gain yet another messaging platform. It’s not great.
The principals of capitalism align with their interests and perhaps their swing that direction could be seem as a defense mechanism against their better nature and any sort of guilt associated with their, what i consider, morally corupt actions.
Hell, reddit was a friendly host for r/t_d for many years.
In their defense at that time subs like FULLCOMMUNISM were also around posting edgy memes where it wasn’t always clear, if they jokingly or actually defended Stalins and Maos genocides.
Heck until 2018 or so there were subs about darknet markets where people rated the drugs and services sold there.
Somehow in my head I’ve always put the far left and the far right in the same boat.
They will. These people are trying to break up our means of communications. That’s why it’s important we get the word out about alternatives.
They gave my twelve-year account a three week ban for reporting bots.
“Report abuse” for reporting comment stealing bots, as we were told to do! Insane… unless you want plenty of active bots.
I got the exact same treatment for “report abuse” for reporting a comment copying bot. Like, ok. If you want Reddit to be nothing but spam bots parroting each other, have at it
I couldn’t even start reporting all the only fans bots that started following me. That’s got to be a sign of a failing platform when you can’t report people.
The backend of reports is that they try to automate handling them, and then staff people to respond to the o es that can’t be automated. So I guess the logic is that you can cut staffing costs if people can’t report things. Of course, you had reports for a reason.
What’s more, they’ll ban any other account you make, if they can associate it with you (mainly IP but who knows what else).
The admins have been favoring the fash since forever.
Reddit is on a good trajectory to become voat.
I was temp suspended for suggesting an “untrainable” pit bull be euthanized instead of re-homing (local city sub)
Reason: threatening violence
I also got the reddit admin “please dont kill yourself” pm at the same time, speaking of report abuse…
Hot. (But could you mark NSFW? Thanks. Nearly creamed myself in the office)
I’ve sincerely tried several times and it won’t stick, but I’ll give it another go.
On a Sunday?
Yeah, it’s because of the messed up leg, the rule clearly stated only “Sexy Pictures of John Oliver”, not “Eldrich abomination that looks like John Oliver”.
Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover!
That was among the AI prompts used. :)
What a perfect way to go. Incredible. Your account died with honor!
I mean…yea. You damn near broke the internet with this.
Big “Gentlemen, it has been an honor to serve with you all,” energy.
Does anyone else have a craving to eat a peach right now?
What an absolutely chad way to go out. Honestly I’m jealous.
Farewell to your ancient Reddit account.
o7
@ivanafterall can you please mark this 18+/nsfw.
PLEASE DO IT
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I’ve tried–it won’t stick. Once I revisit the post, the checkbox has reverted to toggled off again.
What a truly fabulous way to go down though :P
That’s nothing less than epic.
Congratulations!
Thanks, I was honestly a little shocked to see the alert, as it had gotten a bunch of upvotes on /r/pics, but what a way to go out, I guess.
Do you know who banned you? I certainly hope it wasn’t an r/pics mod?
Suspensions are site-wide and are given by the admins of the site, not the moderators of a sub.
I feel even more honored.
It wasn’t a subreddit ban, it’s a Reddit-wide permanent suspension of my account, so I can’t interact with the account in any meaningful way anymore. So I doubt it was anyone on /r/pics, but maybe. Presumably it came from somewhere on-high.
did your old comments and posts also get deleted?
Of course they suspended you! You can’t sell beef jerky, diapers, and car insurance with naked Photoshops of John Oliver.
I mean… I’d buy Jerky if that’s how they advertised it :P
Totally expect to see this in the next “last week tonight”
But where’s his cabbage wife?
flown off with Zazu Oliver
I really hope so lol
Good that they support the writers strike, so they will have enough time to catch all that shit in all it’s glory
