Whenever someone says "i was banned from ..." take what they say with a huge grain of salt.

int_19h 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

On Reddit, you can get banned from some subreddits simply because you have posted in another completely different sub (regardless of the content of the post).

It's not even always politics, although that's certainly a major driving force. But then you have really stupid fights like two subs about the same topic banning each others' members.

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pinkmuffinere 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Everybody here is strangers online, so I think grains of salt are reasonable all around. That said, I'm not sure that people-who-were-banned deserve above average scrutiny. Anecdotally, a lot of the RubyGems maintainers were banned a week ago. It seems really unfair to distrust people _just_ because a person-in-control banned them.

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c-hendricks 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Oof, I'm outside my edit window and didn't make my correct point. It's when people say "I was banned from _____ for _____". When people say "for _____" I take their word with a huge grain of salt.

Not even much to do with Reddit, it's something I picked up from playing video games: https://speculosity.wordpress.com/2014/07/28/the-lyte-smite/

	▲	pinkmuffinere 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Ah I see, you’re saying it’s very hard/impossible to verify the reason for the ban, so the given reason is especially low-signal. That actually does make sense to me, thanks for clarifying

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qingcharles 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The problem (?) with Reddit is that the users themselves have a lot more control over bans than on other social media where it is the platform themselves that do the banning. This makes bans much more arbitrary even than on Facebook and et al.

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EasyMark 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was banned because I was simply in a covid sub debating with the covid-deniers. The "powers-that-be" mods literally banned anyone on that particular sub from popular subs, some of which I hadn't even been in, ever. There was (is?) a cabal of mods on there that run the most popular subs like pics/memes/etc that definitely are power hungry basement dwellers that must not have a life.

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mvdtnz 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Reddit (both admins and many subreddit moderators) are extremely trigger happy with bans. Plenty of reasonable people get banned by capricious Reddit mods.

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Loocid 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Eh, I was banned from several major subreddits for simply posting in a conversative subreddit, even though my post was against the conservative sentiment.

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c-hendricks 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Same, happened to me after replying to a comment in the JRE sub, I think I was calling something / someone dumb. Coincidentally, that sub is openly against him now.

Tried clarifying this in another comment, my point was more that people who say "I was banned from X for doing something innocuous" are often not telling the whole truth.

	▲	tbrownaw 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> my point was more that people who say "I was banned from X for doing something innocuous" are often not telling the whole truth. ... Except when the X in question is Reddit.

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alex1138 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Stop excusing it. It's a very real, very serious problem with Reddit. They're very much abusive on this and many other topics

	▲	frollogaston 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The answer is to leave Reddit and let them have their echo chamber. There's no point of posting there anyway.