No warning, not even a "Don't do it again email" - I had a work account, that was logged in on my works laptop, I made a comment critical of Netanyahu, and the Gaza genocide, which got that account banned from /pics. This was months ago, then I made a comment on pics, on my main account. That's it, gone, banned.
I even have another spare account, from 2008, logged in to that, that's banned too. FFS!
No luck on appeals, so I guess no more reddit, ever again. Anyone managed to get around this?
TBF you're just AI training material to them.
This was the best thing that ever happened to you. Don’t look back.
I will always love the fact that the comment that finally got me permabanned was for telling a MAGA knuckledragger that he wasn’t just licking boots, he was deep throating them. Meanwhile, r/conservative, an actual fucking Russian psyop operation, is allowed to continue to exist. Reddit in a nutshell, especially after Trump was reelected.
Good fucking riddance to Reddit. You might have been the last real person (not bot/AI) commenting on anything over there.
Why would you have a "work account" for Reddit?
Guy gets his 19yo account perma'd
Tons of Wordword#### accounts with hidden post/comment history flooding reddit and render common subs unusable
Reddit: Fuck you and your two accounts, man. We hate multi-account users here.
It's actually quite a horrible feeling, initially. I was there from near the beginning, through the glory days to the enshitification. Got banned from a sub by an overzealous mod on AskUK. Then perma-banned for 'ban-evasion', simply for using another "throwaway" account, which was common practice for years.
Now I'm on Lemmy I'm never going back, even if I could (which is harder than you might think).
Yes, this place is way smaller, but I've met almost no dickheads or bots in the year or so I've been here. It's nice. I had a gander at Reddit the other day and it reinforced my affection for this platform and utter disdain for Reddit in general. They've absolutely wrecked it.
Count your self lucky the local authorities haven't come to your door to question you about such a comment...
Same here. 2 weeks ago out of nowhere I got perma banned after 10 years because of an ICE comment. I said since they didn't get paid, nor will get their sign on bonus, that in 3 years they will be back sucking immigrant cock behind a Wendy's for money. Apparently that is inciting violence. Suck a cock until you choke spez. Anyway it's better here except missing some niche subs that don't exist here.
"Anyone managed to get around this?"
How to get around this:
Why the fuck are you on an enemy's weapons system? Yes, you will have to make peace with permanently being excluded from what is essentialy 1/3 of the internet, but they are REALLY evil. It's like an abussive partner leaving you.
Good riddance.
The lesson is we need platforms like lemmy. Don't ever support any corporate platforms they may seem nice now but it always ends badly.
Anyone managed to get around this?
Didn't even try. It was the impetus I needed to finally leave reddit. I'd also been on there for a long time, and i was putting in an hour or so each day. It wasn't really doing me any good, and when I adjusted I felt better to be away from it. Lemmy scratches the itch but is small enough that it doesn't consume much time. I do more reading and gaming now when I'm free. Years spent on reddit and big karma numbers are a sunk cost that makes it hard to leave.
I got banned after 12 years, and a million Karma, in the Post-Inauguration bloodbath. I got around it with alt accounts for a while, but they caught up faster and faster. The first one lasted about 3 months, but by the end, I was getting tracked down and banned before my first comment was even posted.
People like us, who were there near the beginning, when nobody had heard of Reddit, built that site into what it became. Without us, it has become a cesspool of bots, trolls, novelty accounts, Russian Propaganda Farmers, Corporate manipulators, etc., and especially abusive Mods.
Too bad, it was great for a while.
they did you a solid, bud
Why do you want to get around it? Reddit is last decade. Time to move on.
Yup, banned after 17 years here for speaking out against ICE. Guess Reddit is just taking a turn right into the shitter now.
Huh. I've never got pinched for ban-evasion before despite very regularly using alts to comment in subs where I had previously been banned. I don't honor perma-bans on principle because I think they're ridiculous, but I do self-impose a 30-day ban to let things cool down a bit and avoid attracting suspicion.
Not sure what my secret sauce was, but it was never an issue for me over the 15 or so years I used Reddit.
That said, I'd take this as an opportunity to just stop using Reddit altogether.
Anyone managed to get around this?
Considering how some people run hundreds of bots it must be possible.
Reddit has become a corporate protector of the Epstein Pedophiles. Say too much negative about them and they ban permanently. I know that's not why you were banned, but the mods there have gotten really annoying with permanent bans for thin reasons. Erase Reddit. Join Lemmy and enjoy freedom.
This happened to me. Best thing that could have happened. Welcome to Lemmy.
The flaws here are minor;
I got permabanned for encouraging political violence: suggesting people draw pentagrams in chalk on a public street. As a joke, not like "show up at this time so we can do this."
They are eroding the definition of "political violence" and they know it, they don't care. Thought is political violence now.
No, I just stopped using it a couple of years ago when we learned about the AI bullshit. 251k+ Karma account.
Reddit sucks now & it's simply not worth supporting with my time or energy.
I still use my banned account. I can sub/unsub, save posts and RES still works in my browser. I just can't comment, message or report people. Given I was mostly a helpful user with people's questions, it's really their loss.
You can't get around the bans. They move heaven and earth to fingerprint you.
Don't worry about it. Many of us are in the same boat. I actually think reddit doesn't want human users anymore. They want to be a bot-only outfit.
Yea, I lost my 15 year old account last year. Started a new one and it just wasn't the same. Left a few months ago for here, still not the same, but better then reddit.
Welcome 🤗, to your new online community
12 years for me. Tons of Karma, made it to top page once. I made a stupid joke on Roast me, and someone considered it Hate speech. Tried to create other profiles, all are permanently banned now. Appeals are denied. Glad I found this site. I hope it scratches the itch.
Similar experience. I know it feels like you've been betrayed. That's cause you have been.
It sucks to see reddit go into the shitter so fast but it was only a matter of time. Bots got to it too.
Well, enjoy Lemmy while it remains less mainstream.
I was a mod on r/trashy when some dick face mod on r/pics managed to get me perma banned after 15 years.
It’s not worth going back to. Welcome to Lemmy.
18 years. Banned a year ago. No recourse, appeal immediately denied. Used the word “tRump”
I met Steve, Alexis, and Aaron when the site was housed in Steve's Somerville apartment. They used to throw meetups in Davis Square. This was in 2007-08, before the Digg migration.
Reddit is nothing like it was then, nor are the founders recognizable compared to what I saw all those years ago. I'm not banned, but then I rarely go there any more. Lemmy isn't very good, but Reddit is a dumpster fire.
I was banned last night. There must be a crack down going on. Multiple accounts on multiple emails. Definitely on a DHS list now I guess.
Fuck it. I'm not going back. I suspect any reasonable person is getting kicked off the platform. Shits fucked
i can't remember what i got banned for, but my memory has it as "posted Luigis in defiance of Luigis ban" and that sounds like me.
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