So, I posted a simple Roku fix on Reddit — just explaining how to get actual antenna channels back instead of their ad-stuffed “Live TV” hub.
The post took off fast-within 90 minutes: • 8,000+ views • 12 upvotes • Dozens of people thanking me for the fix
Then… moderators nuked it as a repost.
Sequence of Events: 1. I politely asked what rule I’d broken. 2. Mod replied: “I don’t know, nor is it relevant to your ban.” 3. I joked: “Ok thank you, Paul Blart. 🙄” 4. Instantly → permanent ban + mute.
Screenshots confirmed: no rule violation, just a mod having a day.
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Follow-up Attempts: • Tried posting the story in r/help and r/ideasfortheadmins. • AutoMod deleted both — apparently the word “ban” is illegal now. • Tried to share it elsewhere, but at this point Reddit moderation feels like TSA confiscating nail clippers while waving through flamethrowers.
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Takeaway: It’s wild when platforms value control over community. I literally helped people watch TV again — and got banned for it.
Give someone a little power, and it goes straight to their head.
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The irony? My Roku fix worked. Thousands saw it before it vanished. So somewhere out there, people are happily watching TV — thanks to a guy Reddit decided to erase.
Stay tuned for Volume 2: “AutoMod vs The Word ‘Ban’.”
I was perma-banned from r/gaming because of piracy. I posted a link to an unofficial port of a decompiled, abandonware game.
i was perma-banned from reddit for saying israel commited a nakba in the past and every time i try to make a new account it get’s shadowbanned or just banned
I was perma banned by admins for hurting a mods feelings. Reddit is so scared of having to pay mods they let them do whatever they want. There is no point in trying to rationalize it. As long as mods go unpaid, they will be allowed to have absolute power in the communities they control.
8k views 12 upvotes
Those metrics are definetly not real.
Why? A lot of people are looking for fixes. Not many actually engage by upvoting or commenting. Seen that plenty of times on tech/help related subs
Okay let’s compare this to other platforms like YT for a second, where videos usually have a 10-100 views : 1 upvote ratio.
Reddit should have similar numbers, but this post has a 700 views/upvote ratio. This way too high and smells extremly fishy.
Upvotes higher than views? Considering how many lurkers there are? Considering even people who engage with a post don’t necessarily upvoter? They said 8k views, 12k upvotes. Even if those numbers are reverse, that’s an insane engagement ratio.
Where do you see 12k? The comment above does not say 12k, it says 12
Source: I made it up
It’s well known that reddit obfuscates votes on purpose. Views I have no idea.
I used to love Reddit and it was my only social media site for a decade. But it became so Kafka-esque that it was causing me a tremendous amount of stress. Constantly fighting mod bans was akin to tilting at windmills, as it was completely pointless. So I quit cold turkey last year, deleting my account, and found Lemmy a few days later. I still find the content on Reddit incredibly helpful when I’m searching for information and posts come up on Google but I cannot interact with the site/app any longer. The constant deletions and bans are contrary to the original spirit of the site and have reached SNL sketch level.
ah i miss the old days of reddit.
just being banned from /r/politics (for an innocuous comment) has lowered my blood pressure. I can’t comment so I just let it go.
8k views means 7k ai scrapers downloading the same resource over and over
Which is even funnier because now the knowledge is disseminated further
Fuck reddit I mean that’s all. I stopped looking at it so long ago. Found a way online to delete all my posts and my user account while downloading all my posts to an xml so I could keep MY content.
Well, share the knowledge
GitHub - j0be/PowerDeleteSuite: Power Delete Suite for Reddit https://share.google/4iGAfdxacEIBTn0zP
Welcome to federated social media my dude. You’re better off without that shithole.
Sir this is not Reddit! We can’t do nothing about how bad Reddit is, and I recommend you posting the way to fix it in a related community here.
Edit: not to mention you are a brand new user here, and the first thing to do, is to post about Reddit! I’m might start a bingo card.
Yes indubitably we must pounce upon such things here on lemmeshitpost lest others who just got here brighten my day with a solid Paul Blart jab
you have to realize a majority of lemmy users are ex-reddit users or a dual users as well?
Trauma dumping.
#dayafterchipotle
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With comments like yours, I’m sure they’ll soon be disillusioned with Lemmy too.
Turns out while other problems certainly exist, the biggest problem with social media is the social part.
stop using ubercorp social media
what did paul blart do to you? that guy is a legend!
Have you checked out !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com ?
Charges: resisting arrest
Enjoying a succulent.
I gave it one more shot after being away for a year. Posting my latest 3D Printer mod (after on Lemmy and the manufacturers forum). Immediately got a snarky garbage commenter. That’s what I get.
I might be way to sleepy but I think I’m missing something here. The way I read it, the sequence is:
- you first posted something that got taken down,
- you posted it again and that got you a ban because you reposted
- you asked the mod who banned you why the first post was taken down, which of course doesn’t matter. You can’t keep reposting it until a mod allows it.
- you were rude to the mod and got banned
I see nothing wrong here except that you MAY not have been given an explanation of why the fist post was taken down
Some clarity — this was actually my first Reddit post ever. I didn’t know about the “no repost” rule until after I got the removal notice.
The first message I received didn’t mention reposting at all — it just said the post was removed and suggested I try a different forum. Here’s the screenshot of that message:
After a quick search I saw a few suggestions saying “remove brand names, it might look like a bot promo,” so I edited and reposted. It stayed up for almost two hours and people were saying thank you, so I figured it was fine.
When the mod later said it was a reposting violation, I asked what the original issue was so I could avoid it next time. The reply I got was basically, “I don’t care, I just don’t have the power to fix this even though your post is clearly fine.”
As for tone — sure, I called him Paul Blart, but his comments had a definite “read the TOS, dummy” vibe, so I matched the energy. 😅
Yes. You didn’t know you had to read the rules before posting. Happens to all of us. But the second time, you again reposted without reading the rules. The “try posting somewhere else” message AFIK wasn’t even sent by the mods but a generic reddit message. Yet eve though the suggestion was to literally POST SOMEWHERE ELSE, you decided to post on the same community.
If you wanted to know why you post was removed, you should have asked the original and try to work with them. The second mod is following the rules.
Automod isn’t gonna negotiate with you. Stop simping for reddit mods lol
I’m not simping for them. But bad people can also be right. In THIS case, from what I can tell, the actions were justified. I do believe that is 99% likely that the original takedown was BS, but after that, op was in the wrong
If you wanted to know why you post was removed, you should have asked the original and try to work with them.
You clearly do not understand how reddit moderation works. Unless mods actively choose to be known, your message goes to a general queue one of any number of mods can read, respond to, and hide from the other mods. Worse still, you have no idea which mod took action, and in this case it was an auto or AI mod first.
Agreed, the rules were pretty clear, why did he only contact the mods the second time?
Just stop using reddit. Quit it.
Too easy to say, too many communities that are simply not here.
Ah yes, like food, water, and air—impossible to live without!
Word to the wise: leaving makes space for alternatives that clinging to hinders.
If everyone was idealistic about every aspect of life, we’d all commit suicide very rapidly.
You might think this is super important, but to someone else, the reach of mainstream social media might be worth it for they care about an issue they feel is more important than yours that needs attention, or just straight up focus on other things.
You a vegan? You have solar panels? You buy clothes that you are absolutely 100% sure comes from fairly paid people the whole way down the line? You buy a fairphone? You using a linux pinephone? You… Its never ending.
Purity dramatics like that of your comment arent actually helpful and just demoralize people who are likely there with you 99% of the way generally.
Thanks for your reply. I feel you mischaracterized my response, likely because you didn’t understand it, in which case, likely because I did not express it well.
I don’t care whether op leaves Reddit, it’s not an important issue to me, and it has absolutely nothing to do with purity. I was responding to the idea that it’s hard to leave reddit, which may feel true for op, but, just as you suggested, if everyone took that attitude with everything, positive change would be stymied, and your suggested resort to suicide would make a lot more sense. Making space (e.g., by leaving an abusive relationship of one kind or another) can seem hard or scary, but I stand by it as a means to enable better things to come. What op wants to do with that is up to them.
I hope that’s more clear.
start them then.
Sometimes people just wanna make a post and help people with a niche problem, not sign up to run a whole ass sub tho.
So easy to say lol.
That’s cool sure.
But on the other side: Reddit betrayed the social contract and deserves to rot in consequence.
One droplet of lost engagement becomes an ocean; just stop showing up 🤷♀️
