So I stopped generally using Reddit after the whole API thing but my husband still does and we talk about stuff since Lemmy gets the job done.

One thing he likes is to hop on r/freecompliments and participate there.

Well, today he got permanently banned. Why? Because a bot dredged his profile and found that he sometimes participates in porn subreddits. Usually to complement people there, never posting himself. He’s pretty ace, so it’s rarely, if ever, sexual. But that was enough for the bot to ban him.

They sent a message about how they are sfw subreddit and don’t allow users to participate in NSFW subreddits.

He’s heartbroken about it. He really likes to be nice to people and it makes his day when they respond to him. Now he can’t do that in a sub that’s meant for it.

I feel like the site rules have opinions about banning like this, but it’s not like the admins give a fuck. So fuck those mods and their puritanical bullshit making at least once persons day worse, for the low cost of a user that was participating in good faith.

And since I’m on a roll, fuck spez

I tried posting this to trueoffmychest to dredge some sympathy for him, since that seemed appropriate and he was good with it, but they don’t allow ‘anger’ or ‘impersonal’ posts and that got quietly removed immediately. So fuck them too. I didn’t realize how far down the shitter reddit has gone.

  • SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I got banned from r/trueoffmychest because I commented on a r/tumblrinaction post (something along the lines of “you can’t use autism as a blanket excuse to be an asshole”). Didn’t matter the context of my comment. Just that I did it once. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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      1 year ago

      Fucking hell. I moved to trueoffmychest after offmychest banned me for something similar (from years prior). Bans for participating in other subreddits are such horseshit.

      Live long enough to become the villain I guess.