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"If you raise the fucking hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out."

In quotes and attributed, in a conversation about the Costco hot dog. But apparently I'm threatening violence. Lol

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago

These reddit ban appeals are just power trips for the mods. do not engage with this feature.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I got a warning for saying "I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye" in response to someone saying Spider-Man 3 was bad. πŸ˜‚ I made an appeal and it was rescinded almost immediately, but still.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Lmao. And they say comedy is dead.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, I got a 7-day ban for saying Luigi Mangione probably shouldn't go to prison for what he did because they said I was inciting violence. They lifted it on appeal, but not before hitting me with a perma-ban for some bullshit about circumventing the ban with other accounts (I've had exactly one account on reddit in the ~14 years I've been there), so I decided they were getting a bit too fashy for my taste and started looking for greener pastures.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Reddit loves Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

See, your mistake was not having hundreds of disposable accounts. 🀣

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Clearly. :P

[–] [email protected] 106 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

It was a bot that automatically banned you

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago

Good thing they can blame bots for this shit.

Throws up hands β€œIt was the bots, nothing bad we did.” Just like when AI fucks things up and companies won’t take responsibility. Because we didn’t do anything bad 🀷

[–] [email protected] 63 points 11 hours ago

There are absolutely bots doing this sort of thing. Years ago when I still had an account there I got flagged for "promoting suicide" because I explained that a stalemate in a chess game can happen because "the king is not allowed to commit suicide"

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 hours ago

Also a bot that will ignore the explanation and reject the request

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

It probably is, the issue is that the appeal process doesn't work and is seemingly also run by bots.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

end of the day these big tech companies need us in ways we don't need them

[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"CEO" and "kill" going in the same sentence is ungood.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

Doubleplusungood, even

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

Won't somebody please think of the advertisers??

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

People really need to get the fuck off of reddit.

Redditors are going to end up on [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Mods are power tripping everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

We're coming here, but slowly. We each have our tipping point and for many who just scroll mindlessly it's not any worse than insta/tiktok/Facebook. The commenter crowd has largely moved over.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

That's a good point different people use it in different ways.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Reminds me when I submitted an appeal to Imgur.

My post got taken down for racism.

I send an appeal that it was, in fact, not racism and if it is to please show me where the racism is.

β€œThank you for contacting us. Your post got removed because of racism because it had racism in it.”

Told them to go fuck them selves.

Never got an answer.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 hours ago

You can tell that it's an aspen tree because of the way it is

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

It's because they've given an LLM the ability to ban for "promoting or threatning violence", and it's terrible. It basically sees two "bad" words on one line and send out a ban. It seems like an attempt at making people use words like "unalive" and things like that.

Interestingly it doesn't work if you spread it across more than one line(the haiku and similar bots don't get banned after quoting comments that get banned).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

There are those who chose to control by "interpreting" the rules as needed. These people will use a different interpretation as needed to exert any control they can.

They're being right is less important than YOU'RE being wrong

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Now try this: mass edit all of your comments to be that post and watch how quickly you get banned from every subreddit, no appeal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

I can't be the only one thinking of a lot of Reddit's mods as Jimmy Wichard from King of the Hill, can I?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

I just got permanently banned from Reddit at the end of a 2 day ban. I haven't even posted or commented anything yet. Reddit is dead.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I would bet $10,000 that you get a notification saying "we've reviewed your appeal and decided the ban will stay in place"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

Unapologetic enshittification is how the second quarter of this century will begrudgingly be remembered.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I don't see how it's terribly surprising that the death threat you quoted got lumped in with the earnest death threats.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Any human moderator would not confuse the two. Any human reporting in good faith would not confuse the two.

It sounds like this was llm backed auto moderation, which cannot understand context, which will kill communities and platforms quicker than a hot dog Loving ceo having to pay slightly more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Quick, someone make a Lemmy instance called Scunthorpe. Should keep out the trash level of LLMs that seem to shit things up.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, the firehose ends up blasting both directions. Bot generated content leads to bot generated rule enforcement. Still nothing all that surprising to me.