Okay, posting this here because it is literally called No Stupid Questions, but I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on this.

I got a message today on Reddit saying I was permabanned . . . I had really good karma there, never received any notification that I had done anything wrong, and never had a post deleted. The message said to check my inbox for more details . . . but there were no details in my inbox. I tried to appeal, and it was just denied in a couple of hours. No explanation.

Anyone else experience this or know what other avenues I can take? I’m going to be honest here, I had made a lot of friends there. I suppose I could make a throwaway account to let them know where else they can find me, but I’m pretty bummed out.

For context: I kind of prided myself as being a “Ted Lasso of Reddit.” I mostly just got on to give people pep talks in the beginner fitness and /toastme subreddits. I’m going to miss that a lot, and I kind of needed a community right now, even if it was an online one. But, hey, maybe that’s just my sign to check out this place instead. I’ll try to look at the bright side.

  • tinned_tomatoes@feddit.uk
    6·
    2 days ago

    I got banned for reporting a post with the statement “links to nazi platform” (it was a link to X).

    I got a message in my inbox about my account being given “a warning” for abusing the report system. I was then permanently banned an hour later.

    I had like 5 accounts, one of them dating back to 2008. They are now all permanently suspended. Because I offended some loser moderator.

    Or maybe they all got banned because I still used a third party Reddit client? Oh well. Fuck Reddit. I’ll continue using my cracked third party Reddit client and browse Reddit in read-only mode. Lemmy can be where I actually contribute !

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      I got banned from a bunch of subreddits because I left a critical comment on an anti-vaxx subreddit. The lazy mods all used bots to automagically ban any username in the comments. So even though I was critical of them I was banned for having the temerity of showing up in it.

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Yup.

      If I need to hop on Reddit for anything, usually to lookup how to fix a technical issue or something, I use RedReader and I don’t login.