I got banned from r/firstimpression due to super generic “nsfw activity.” A woman had posted a picture of herself in green and brown clothing and sitting amongst some flowers and her post was titled “What do you think my job is?”

My ban-worthy cheeky comment was “wood nymph”

Oh no!! Anyway,…

I got banned from worldnews on lemmy.world for quoting Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The mods said I was being racist. I came back with citations and explained that I was replying to another HHGTTG quote with a line that followed it up in the book.

They wouldn’t even consider it. No matter what, my comment “seemed racist.”

Lesson: don’t try to be clever.

I got banned years ago from r/funny because I was browsing on “new” (like I do here), responded to a post with a lame joke within minutes after it posted, then the powers that be decided the poster was a spammer, and banned me too. I asked them why they banned me, but got absolutely nothing in response. It turns out, though, that being banned from there made absolutely no difference to my Reddit experience.

Now that Reddit is a public company, and courting income from paid official subreddits, it’s only a matter of time before there is a huge class-action lawsuit over their uneven moderation policies. Especially if companies start steering a good portion of their customer interaction there. It is super unfair to be cut off from legitimate customer service because of a power-tripping mod in a totally different part of Reddit.

Besides, I hit on the best way to ensure I never get banned from Reddit: I don’t go there anymore.

Got site banned for calling out and even providing evidence that the mods on /r/steamdeck were abusing their power and treating users like shit. It was “harassment.”

I just made a new account, and they haven’t even realized it yet. I want to do something crazy that highlights how fucked reddit is, just don’t know what or how to do so at the moment.

I got banned from r/mildlyinteresting like 10 years ago because I posted a picture of an oil spill in a parking lot that looked like a reindeer. Didn’t break the rules, no idea why I got banned, every time I’ve tried to appeal they sent me through like eight moderators and nothing ever got done, and same as you, they don’t even reply anymore.

I got banned because someone asked what the fairly infamous bible passage about being hung like a donkey / emissions of horses was all about. So I put it in modern language. Unfortunately the passage is Ezekiel calling out the people of Judea for acting “like whores”. Perma banned. Failed appeal. Patently obvious to anyone who can read what the context of the conversation was.

Several mods or bots can’t even comprehend grammar.

I got permabanned by commenting on a spoilt kid. I said he deserves a smack.

It’s horrible. I contributed content and comments for so many years for them. I also bought award coins from them and then they closed the program and literally stole my money. Ultimately, I got banned just recently for saying something that absolutely was not against their policy, it was misinterpretted, and now they won’t reply to my appeal.

They banned me cus I told someone who was mocking the Uvalad School shooting to “Choke on butter” I was banned for several days, and i was fine with that- Until MOTHER FUCKING OPERA GX- SIGNED ME IN AUTOMATICALLY TO MY ALT. Now im fucking perma banned, and reddit WONT ANSWER ME NO MATTER WHAT I DO- Im so desperate at this point. I really really really want my account back and I miss being in all of the active forum communities there. Lemmy just isnt the same

You should know the most reddit admin has 🫏 🧠 by the way. Not point arguing with dead 🧠.

I was banned from Reddit for allegedly promoting “hate”.

Story: There was post about convicted criminals being send bacl to Afghanistan and that they were released there and are, in fact, not in prison. After a little discussion if that is good or bad i wrote that imho the cutural background CAN be a factor for not fitting well into western society. Backed by the fact that there are people considered criminals here in Germany but not in Afghanistan. I also wrote in a follow up comment that i don’t see any culture as better or worse baseline…only that there are some that CAN crash with western worldview.

That got me banned and my appeal, stating that i didn’t sold my opinion as a fact is being ignored.

The really sad thing is that i made the mistake of engaging a political topic online and it seems that mistake is iredeemable in the eyes of some faceless Reddit mod. I srsly liked it there for my interests in the other communities.

So now i found Lemmy.World and hope to can engage in the same stuff as there…except for the hot topics of politics…

I was banned a few times for saying something like that if some politician of some country consciously does a thing which costs Armenian lives, or, say, “recognizes territorial integrity of Azerbaijan”, they are fair game for Armenians. That technically they make a choice they have right to make, or that their country has some interests, etc are reasons, but not excuses.

I mean, people are responsible for the actions they take. It’s not extremism.