I’m working on it. Maybe. Well, one day. Like when other Left of centre, anti trump, anti corpo type folks oppose the things I oppose in correct manner and degree, duh.
I’m working on it. Maybe. Well, one day. Like when other Left of centre, anti trump, anti corpo type folks oppose the things I oppose in correct manner and degree, duh.
NEW USER: “I came to Lemmy because Reddit permabanned me for saying puppies and kittens are cute.”
Then I find myself looking at their comment/post history because that doesn’t really sound like a normal thing anybody would get banned for. And after seeing what they post/comment here, I think to myself “I disagree with permabanning people, but I think I understand why it might’ve been done.”
I managed to gain one and I have no idea whether I was misunderstood or just managed to meet the worst admin ever.
Basically, it was the recent story about girl guides. Someone asked what the hell transphobes are thinking when pushing for stuff like this.
My reply was ‘children are predators’. As in ascribing that thought, in a tongue-in-cheek manner, to transphobes. Banned.
I have no idea if they thought I was seriously suggesting that trans children, or indeed any children, are predators, or if transphobes are now a protected minority. It’s the UK, it really could go either way.
But anyway, here I am in my new non-reddit home.
Were you permabanned from Reddit or just banned from a specific subreddit? Those are two entirely different things, and sometimes people don’t seem to understand or don’t care to admit it.
Sucks to be permabanned from the whole site over that comment if that’s what happened, but hopefully you took that as an experience to learn and grow (and not just as a reason to reinforce your discontent with Reddit itself) so that you don’t necessarily bring that same energy to other spaces.
Honestly, that’s a problem for a lot of ex-Redditors in my strictly subjective opinion. They claim to hate the place, but then bring the same exact energy here. I’m fine with a diversity of opinion and antics, but if I wanted to interact with Redditor behavior, I’d just go to Reddit.
Anyway, I myself LOATHE having to use “/s” to denote when I’m being sarcastic or deploying a bit of mockery/parody. However, I recognize that my intent does not obligate others to abide, nor is my intent and its effect on others guaranteed to align. I would say in the context that you describe, I probably wouldn’t make that kind of comment or if I did I would at least do the thing I hate so much and just use a “/s” or sPonGE CAsE, perhaps.
In your new non-reddit home, the bad Reddit-like moderator behavior is alive and thriving here as well. It’s not all fairy farts and unicorn blow around here. You probably already knew that, but just in case, figured I’d give you a heads up.
Ahahaha, yeah I’m instantly a little suspicious when someone says they got permabanned for “nothing, absolutely nothing!”
I believe I got perma banned for posting Luigi gifs and guillotines after the UHC guy got euthanized.
The real reason Reddit gave was something about using another account to avoid a ban … but I only had one account. Reddit was just weird, had to be an AI thing.
Just admit you got permabanned for saying we should normalize punching nazis, it’s nothing to be ashamed of. It’s why we’re all here.
Lol I got a temp once for referencing milkshake in a certain context. Advocating violent moo juice
That wasn’t site-wide, was it? That doesn’t sound like reddit admins, more like subreddit-specific mods.
That was a sub.
That’s funny, because I originally wrote “hunting nazis” but revised it to “punching nazis” to make it more palatable to the non-violent. Although either statement would get you banned on reddit…
the only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.
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@Gentryfried@feddit.uk, is there something you disagree with my statement?
do you think that Nazi’s should live in the same world as the rest of us?
As far as I knew all Nazis have been dead for a long time…if there are living Nazi’s, shouldn’t they be dead?
I can only hope the downvote was because even dead nazis are bad.
Fwiw, I automatically downvote this childish shit because almost everyone online seems to call anyone they dislike a Nazi.
If you’re using pop history’s biggest bad guys to refer to everyone with whom you disagree, oknbut you don’t also get to claim the moral high ground that comes with punching aforementioned popular history’s worst bad guys.
You’re just saying you want to punch those with whom you disagree, minus the intellectual justification.
I was once permabanned on a couple of subreddits I had never visited before because I had commented on a thread in a sub they apparently didn’t like. It was called Kotaku and I had never heard of it before. Just saw a movie thread and commented because I love movies. The thing I hated the most about reddit was the expectation that everybody were as terminally online as the mods were. Not my fault a sub pops up in my feed and I decide to comment on the topic.
Was likewise permabanned from the true childfree subreddit for making a post where I wanted to talk to people about the thoughts and doubts that comes with being childfree. I was going through some things at the time and just wanted to talk to likeminded people. Permabanned for “trolling”.
And finally was permabanned for racism on a sub where the topic was the little mermaid remake and I mentioned that I thought Halle Bailey deserved better than to work for Disney. Had followed her and her sister’s youtube channel on/off since 2014 and really liked their voices and I didn’t want a young artist to be chewed up and spit out by one of the worst entertainment companies ever. I still love her and Chloe’s cover of Say Something and think it is better than the original.
So yeah, sometimes you get permabanned for literally no reason or a made up reason. I had no sad feelings when I left reddit. I absolutely hated the mods on most subs. None of them seemed to have lived in the real world for years.
Until you get your IP permabanned site-wide, those are just trivial anecdotes
I got permabanned from instances because I hurt a snowflake admins feelings by arguing against them.
shit made my day because I was still able to call them idiots, just not on their instance.