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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[–] 128 points 5 months ago (32 children)

Reddit will ban you for even the mildest of takes. Their AI admin is draconian in metering out bans. The platform seems to really want to get rid of all of the pesky humans still there and just be a safe space for bots.

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  • [–] 41 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    I honestly don't know how anyone stays on Reddit very long. They permaban people for ANYTHING these days. They abdicated their site to psychopathic, power-tripping mods.

    Just for context, Ghislane Maxwell was a Reddit mod.

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

    It's not even worth lurking there. Every post is just five "original" comments, and then everything below those are people repeating the same five comments a hundred times.

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

    That was a thing WAY before AI and bots tho...

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

    Absolutely.
    The new bots just add to the cacaphony of mindless comments.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Weaponized reposting. Posts and connents. That was a thing before AI too. Remember, who was it, maybe POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS, who looked up super old reposts and cut n pasted the top scoring comment from them..

    Oy vey...

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

    And their bans really stick. If you piss them off enough, they connect every account you've ever had, somehow, and the ones they miss, if you log in it's a matter of days before they catch on.

    It's kind of impressive, actually.

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

    I know. When I got permabanned after 12 years and a million Karma, I started using a new account, and lasted about 3 months. After that, they tracked me down faster and faster. The last one permabanned me in minutes before I could post my first message. They got my number now, and it's probably gotten even tighter with AI.

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  • [+] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah I miss asking super niche questions on certain subs, because there's usually enough users to have a prompt reply.

    But fediverse is growing, slowly. Sadly best way to keep growing it is to stay and promote it on Reddit, everyone who's fed up for the same reasons we are are ripe for the plucking.

    Comes with a bunch of idiots, of course, myself included so YMMV.

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

    I got a site wide ban and all my alts were banned at the same time because I called someone who was shitting on Trans people "a disgusting piece of human garbage". Apparently that was inciting hatred or violence and I can no longer make an account without it being banned within an hour or two.

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

    To be fair if you mention trans at all you're probably getting banned and get your name on a list.

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  • [+] -48 points 5 months ago (13 children)

    Probably not relevant to the topic at hand.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    It's pretty relevant. Who are you pulling all that weight for?

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  • [+] -13 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    How is getting banned for the mildest takes relevant for posting a link to a drop box with concert images?

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Are you actively ignoring the similarities between these instances or do you genuinely not understand that they’re both examples of strange and excessive moderation?

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  • [+] -8 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    To me this seems like an auto mod fuck up that is quite reasonable and an embarrassing delay of manual review coupled with a classic dogpile.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    "manual review" ...

    ...rriiiiigghht...

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

    There is zero benefit to banning celebrities and taking the fallout. Why would they? If they are profit driven they wouldn't. Even if they were cartoonishly evil they only hurt themselves.

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

    ...you're almost there, keep thinking just a little longer...

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  • [–] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Maybe the mods try to sabotage the reddit stock by creating drama and a general mess. But that's paranoid reasoning.

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

    I'm not here for mental gymnastics just to convince myself reddit doesn't suck.

    It's a shit platform. It used to be good, but they sold out. Now it's a publicly traded corporation with a for-profit motive and a business model based on ad revenue. It's been corrupted, and it will never again be what it was.

    Sorry if the truth is too much for you to handle.

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

    If it gets manually reviewed it’ll only be because this dogpile happened. Lots of people get banned like this with no recourse because they aren’t Paul McCartney

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago

    Probably true. Moderation and heavy handedness shouldnt go hand in hand. And permanent bans are stupid as people lose their legacy and incentive to be nice and constructive when losing their history.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    The topic is reddit overzealously banning people. People commented with their experiences being banned by overzealous reddit mods and admins.

    If you don't like it, you can go somewhere else. That's how the threadiverse works. You don't have to be here if you don't like the conversation, but you don't get to tell people what not to post or comment.

    If that's how you want to be, go back to your beloved reddit where you can be a mod and ban people for stupid reasons. No one here will miss you.

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