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Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit (piunikaweb.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Paul McCartney’s official Reddit account seems to have been banned. The account, u/paulmccartney, had just dropped a set of photos and videos from the first night of his shows at the Fonda Theatre. It went straight into the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Then, not long after, the whole thing disappeared.

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[–] 222 points 5 months ago (43 children)

I got banned from a bunch of Reddit subs for once telling someone they were wrong about the Yorkshire accent in the UK. They called me a liar about being British and then I got banned from like 30 places at once.

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  • [–] 71 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I got a "permanent suspension" from all of Reddit. Isn't a suspension temporary, wouldn't a permanent suspension just be a ban?

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    Maybe it’s the difference between undoable or not undoable.

    If you think about it, when a judge gives you a “suspended sentence” for a crime, it is permanently suspended meaning there is no set expiry. But it can be made to expire if needed.

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

    That tracks. You pissed off someone who had a connection with a mod and/or admin. Been there!

    I got banned once for dunking on IG travel trends and the mod involved was dumb enough to PM me threatening me.

    It's just pathetic how emotional and over reactive people saying crap on the internet they don't like. I don't agree with a lot of stuff but I see no reason to censor people for enjoying musicals or whatever else I hate.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Considering all mods are probably mirrors of antiwork mod the entire world got to see - zero surprises there.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You see, I never had a single comment moderated by the anti-work people, and I made a lot, a lot of them very extreme comments. Like illegally so. But many other subs I have had that same problem. I used to use revveddit to see which Subs were secretly silencing me, which included pics, and so many others. Mostly Auto mod bullshit I presume. Auto mod which I trust is corrupted by the government for Israel and a number of other issues.

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  • [+] 25 points 5 months ago (18 children)
    [removed by mod]
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  • [+] -57 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    Yeah so the AI haters have doxxed them, posted their photos on Lemmy, and harassed them non stop.

    But you got banned, that’s rough buddy.

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  • [–] 43 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    I have no idea what you're talking about.

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  • [+] -56 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    It’s pretty straightforward, they’ve been targeted and doxxed and harassed by anti ai trolls on Lemmy. You probably downvoted some posts in their comms, contributing to this and got banned.

    If it’s a comm that doesn’t interest you, why are you even going on about it a month later to shit talk the user?

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  • [–] 44 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    why are you even going on about it a month later to shit talk the user?

    Why did I mention something relevant to the conversation? That's your question?

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  • [+] -39 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

    You could have easily done so without directly linking them. That adds nothing except pushing your vendetta and directing more harassment at them.

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  • [–] 46 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    I don't have a vendetta. I'm entirely ignorant of the context you're describing. I got blanket banned from a series of communities by aforementioned user for (presumably) downvoting. I'm not really very interested in continuing this.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

    Listen bro, you could have avoided this. You should have known that anytime you comment or vote on lemmy you could trigger a sensitive mod's paranoia and be banned for that.

    If you want to participate in Lemmy, you're going to need to learn to read the room, figure out the single opinion that is being allowed, and stick to it.

    It's better than Reddit here bro, just make sure that you don't stick out and you won't be hammered down.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Looks like we're going to need a new decentralized platform.

    Or just a platform without people, because people suck.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I got a sitewide warning a couple of months ago for suggesting that Trump's inaugural "board of peace" meeting was the apotheosis of the "you have one bullet..." thought experiment. "After reviewing, we found that you broke Rule 1 because you threatened violence or physical harm." I'll wager Trump's secret service guys were absolutely shitting themselves when they read it, so it's probably for the best they took it down tbf.

    On the bright side, it was the kick up the backside that was needed to get me to try Lemmy, and I hardly use Reddit at all now.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I got banned from one of the UK subreddits when someone posted a lengthy comment about why Brexit was amazing, and I responded that Brexit was idiotic. I got banned for "being political" and the person I was responding to didn't lol.

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  • [+] -47 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    Sounds like you were a dick and didn't realize and doubled down. No way to tell now.

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    What a bold and insulting statement to make with absolutely no information to back it up.

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  • [+] -23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Based on how you tell the story.

    It's a reasonable scenario for the result and your interpretation of it.

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  • [+] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)
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  • [+] -14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    There sure are cases of injust behavior by power tripping mods. That being said just presuming guilt and malice is unfair to the volunteers taking care of reddit today.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    The appropriate way to take care of Reddit is to shut it down, sell all its assets and donate the proceeds to blind dogs, imprison every paid member of staff, put their families into foster homes (if any of them aren't incels), bulldoze their dwellings, salt their fields, and systematically delete anything online that they ever uploaded.

    Then dunk the shareholders' heads one by one in a bucket of horse piss, duration of dunking in proportion to the number of shares held.

    I know it's milder than they deserve, but you gotta start somewhere.

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