Here's what makes this whole thing absurd

The ban in question was a 3-day ban from r/youll_be_banned which is a subreddit where getting banned is literally part of its punchline. You make a post, you get banned if the mods are in a bad mood, and that's just the joke

Why on earth would I try to circumvent such a short ban, from that subreddit of all subreddits?

Still, it doesn't change that I've been accused by the automated system, even for something that I did not do

Right after I got that message about the sitewide ban, I panicked and sent a half-baked appeal explaining that I had zero intent. Of course that appeal got rejected because I didn't explain the context above. You could tell from the wording itself that I was still experiencing the shock of it all

And, well there is a page allowing me to send my second appeal. I'm just scared of it getting rejected again somehow

I think in the meantime, I'm just gonna stop shouting into the void and reach out here to you guys, just to talk it over. It's been 11 days since the ban, and I've been a little depressed about it

Does anyone want to share their experiences?

Edit: Submitted my second appeal which says:

My 3-day ban was from r/youll_be_banned, where bans are part of the joke. I didn’t intentionally evade it. Please review the specific activity behind my permanent suspension; my first appeal lacked context.

Wish me luck, even if my luck is low. If they still don't hear it, oh well I guess

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[–] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Reddit fuckin' sucks man. I ate a permanent ban in a comment chain where some people were being weird about Pizza Cake (popular comic artist if you're unaware, people on reddit are extremely weird about her) accusing her of misandry or something, and I said "omg she should be sentenced to death! Do you goobers even hear yourselves?". Ban reason was inciting violence.

I appealed, twice, and the second was actually successful, but through some technical glitch, they never actually unbanned me and I couldn't appeal it again because it was already "successful."

The thing that really fucking sucked was that I was right in the middle of a fundraiser for charity, and a lot of that money was raised on reddit. I eventually got my account actually reinstated by asking on an alt account on a weekly askreddit thread run by an admin, but like six weeks later, absolutely sucked to lose all that momentum.

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

    Honestly I don't understand what's going on with reddit! I got banned by mistake once, and reddit asked me to update my email and password. But even after I did, the ban still wasn't lifted!

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

    It gets worse every year too. I feel like I'm constantly running into terrible content but people who are generally harmless get banned forever for sarcasm.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    im in another forum, where people have thier "business" through reddit, but its from just using spamming though. one thing reddit doesnt like is people promoting any kind of business, or fundraising they arnt benefiting from.

    but they sure like to allow someone like gary Sinese promoting military propaganda, yes has a strange obssesion with VETS, and while hes "donating to them" he seems to promote it heavily since hes a republican, One of his alleged reasons for leaving hollywood was his Sons passing, but im thinking its him recently coming out as a REPUBLICAN through and through, hollywood does not like associated out and about republicans.

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