Was banned from the sinusitis subreddit for telling (apparently a mod) that a deviated septum absolutely can cause a sinus infection. He got upset and banned me- and even denied my ability to respond to the ban.
Petty? Maybe. But that’s the final straw for me. I just finished deleting all posts and then the account. So sick of arrogant toxic mods.
I got banned from r/soapmaking because I didn’t agree that buying soap that someone else made, melting it, adding perfume and glitter, and pouring it into moulds was soap making and not arts and crafts. I raise the pigs, render the lard, and make actual soap. I was called arrogant.
I was banned from r/republican for pointing out that the headline of an article that said that the DOJ had found evidence of widespread voter fraud in Georgia was incorrect and based on a letter written by a Trumpist political hack, Jeffery Clark, not the DOJ and that it in fact contradicted the DOJ, the Republican AG, the Republican Governor of Georgia, the Republican Secretary of State of Georgia, and Republican election officials in Georgia. I was called a troll.
I was banned from r/canada for wondering out loud if the neo-fascist premiere of Alberta who made unethical phone calls to Justice officials about a hateful street pastor charged with repeatedly breaking covid rules then having a secret recording of a phone call with the accused released wherein she fawned over him and promised that she was doing everything she could to help him would pay him conjugal visits in prison once he had been sentenced.
I was banned from r/freedomconvoy2022 when I pointed out that they had exercised their Section 6 rights to travel freely across provincial borders while exercising their Section 7 right to be unvaccinated to exercise their Section 2 rights to assemble in downtown Ottawa to hold their giant racist, western separatist, Nazi, fascis, white nationalist, sovereign citizen, anti-science, resident harassing, air pouring, business closing, hourly wage employee unemploying, street shitting tantrum.
Don’t speak truth into echo bunkers.
I was banned from r/food for pointing out that a “homemade breakfast” posted by a user consisted of a frozen hash brown patty, fresh uncut fruit, a sausage link, and a toaster waffle, and I suggested that it seemed like low effort to call that meal “homemade”.
Turns out I was wrong about the waffle, at least the user followed up with a picture of a waffle iron and claimed they made it themselves. Fair dinkum, I wasn’t going to press the point.
A couple of days later I had a multi-paragraph screed from a mod where they went through my post history and complained about things I posted to other subreddits, like r/hotdog, and a permanent irrevocable ban.
Yeah but it’s not like that can’t happen on Lemmy.
It can’t. I can create another account and post freely In that community if necessary. This mod blocked me from ever posting there under ANY account under threat of perma-ban Reddit-wide. And without any recourse. I cannot appeal-
All for proving a mod wrong.
Mods on reddit do not have that ability.
Yeah…. they absolutely do. I had an account banned from Reddit for posting in a sub that an alt account was banned in.
Reddit admins have the ability. Mods do not.
Mods can request to have you banned, so it’s the same thing. I know as it’s happened to me.
It even says so on the ban notification. That if you try and circumvent the bad with an alt, it will result in a sitewide ban.
It’s irrelevant who has the power if a buthurt mod can appeal to have to banned, it means the same thing.
Yeah, no. Subreddit mods can’t do that, only the sitewide admins.
It’s easy to prove this as anyone can create a new subreddit and see exactly what functions mods get. They don’t get the ability to issue sitewide bans, only bans from their own subreddit.
The point is, they can make it happen. It even says so in the ban notification.
“Any attempt to circumvent this ban by using alt accounts will result in a sitewide ban.”
Wether they do it themselves, or report you to admins, the end result is the same.
Mods don’t have any more ability to do it than any other user. They literally just have to use the “report user” function, same as anyone else on reddit. There’s no secret special back door access to the admins that mods get. This is literally one of the things that mods complain about - they don’t have any way to deal with ban avoidance and alt accounts except to hit “report” and cross their fingers.
See my message above. It happened to me. This large sub’s mods tracked my alt accounts and got the admins to perma ban me on all my alt accounts. I had 3 different accounts for 3 different sets of interests. I don’t know how they did it but they did.
Bullshit. Mods ban from subreddits, and report circumvention to admins. Regular users don’t have any way of knowing if your using an alt. The point is-
That shit can’t happen here.
I’m pretty sure the sitewide admins have a bot that detects ban evasion. The mods share the message with you, it’s the same message on every sub.
The admins might well have some sort of automation, but mods certainly don’t have any visibility of it and the admins never talk about it. Outside of the customisable “ban reason” one liner in the ban message, the entire message is automated (and defined by the admins) - the mods don’t write it.
What sub were you moderating?
Something big like r/videos or something small like r/Iputdoritoesinmyshoes?
I got perma-banned from reddit for participating in a sub under a different account after I got banned. The sub in question banned me because I called out a player as a criminal for assault and bullying. The reddit ban message said mods reported my participation under alt account to the admins. There was no recourse to appeal any bans. Fuck reddit and its toxic mods. That’s why I am here,
There’s really no way a reddit mod can know if you are ban evading on an alt. Only way is if you admit to it which they can then report to the admins.
Basically just don’t admit to evading a ban and you would have been 100% fine from the mods.
This is all coming from somebody that’s modded subreddits with millions of subscribers.
I never admitted to it. Was banned on one account on politics for calling a trumper a little bitch for whining about anti-racism laws- then logged into that sub with an alt a day later and had my account banned.
They clearly have the authority to know when you’re circumventing. I never said a word about it, and didn’t even comment in the same post as my banned account.
Dude, I believe you. Same shit happened to me. That’s why I’m on kbin and lemmy. These people have no idea.
That’s great but don’t fall under the impression that those same people aren’t here on Lemmy
That may be so, but they can’t ban me across lemmy for using a different account and posting in the same community.
You can be banned here not only from a single “community” but also from entire instances, which the former would be comparable to a subreddit ban and the latter would be even worse.
In any case you can just spin up a new account on either.
