Mike Hardaker, who has maintained a Reddit account for 20 years, has been shadow-banned on Reddit. He has posted an update on X, stating that Reddit requires an ad spend to restore organic posting. This demand was given to him in writing.
Mike Hardaker, who has maintained a Reddit account for 20 years, has been shadow-banned on Reddit. He has posted an update on X, stating that Reddit requires an ad spend to restore organic posting. This demand was given to him in writing.
That’s nothing. I was permabanned for inciting violence or whatever they claimed, which broke rule #1. My “violence” was calling AI stupid (more or less) wishing it’d go away. Ironically, the mod bot banned me.
I keep hearing stuff like this, makes me wonder if they are even honestly getting those moderations wrong, or if they are pretending to get it wrong to ban you for other reasons. My violations were often in bad faith for other reasons that I got violated for I believe. Did you get into any arguments with like Influence agents for a powerful group? Ie Israel but not limited to.
Probably me shitting on AI was frowned upon. It was a news article or something something to the tune of ‘data centers for AI are stealing jobs faster than know’ and I said once they’re built, its low maintenance bc all the automation. So AI data centers replace people with AI agents and then automate BACnet to maintain the building. Would be a shame if it caught fire and the building AI was compromised and let burn the regular AI…
I’m spitballing my answer, but apparently that was a call for someone to somehow set fire to a datacenter or something even though I never said those words. It was poking fun at the Anikin Skywalker meme “you destroyed the very thing you were meant to protect” kind of shit. Or better yet, when Task Manager freezes.
I’m sure it didn’t help I was the creator and mod of several 2A subs with a good size following. But never any violence, it was hobbyist stuff. Everyone was civil.
Oh yeah that makes sense. I’ve backed off several comments about how the data centers are vulnerable because I just know the technofascists are going to be super aggressive going after anyone suggesting anything about data centers blowing up or whatever.
The farthest I’ve gone is bringing up that in the french revolution the first thing the peasants did when they heard the news was mob their local clerk and burn their records building.
I am curious if there are any vulnerabilities to them losing data. Figured I’d get violated for asking on reddit.
My ~19 year old account was permabanned after three strikes that involved two upvotes of Luigi pictures and then— after seeing a vid of Trump falling asleep— saying he shouldn’t wake up.
Then my alt got a warning for “disparaging communities” after I said one of the two PDX subreddits started so they could talk shit about houseless people, which is a fact.
Three of those were flagged by AI, the last one— the warning— was a person flagging it and couldn’t be contested.
It’s gone to the dogs.
You got violated for upvoting luigi? I said all sorts of shit with no action on that, although I did get a 2nd violation and abandoned that account and when I came back with a new account all luigi content was gone except for pics which my posts don’t seem to go through on somehow.
I got one for saying musk should be riding in his own spaceshit, for advocating violence, apparently it’s just presumed it will blow up. What else, for accurately stating a cultural difference with another country that lacks sewage and running water for half the population and has a problem with feces polluting the ground and water, India.
We can’t even talk about cultural differences, and problems in society, without getting violated for disparaging others apparently. God forbid we accurately recount a historical situation where some nationalist is embarrassed for the outcome.
I pulled a 3-day ban for calling ICE racists. Must have really triggered one of the racist mods.
I am on a 7 day ban for the same sort of thing, pointing out how ICE targets brown people. “Inciting hate”, how is pointing out hate crimes the same as inciting hate? Fight the power.
Why go back?
It’s strong “people who point out racism are the real racists” energy
I’m jealous of all y’all who know why you got bans.
I’ve gotten warning and temp bans, but they never specify why. They never include the content. Just saying promoting this or that is very unclear, like how, when, where? Did I actually?
I always just ignore them and carry on on alts for a while.
Their shit is so stupid. But there’s a lot of useful content on Reddit. I still hit up old house and DIY type groups, cause I own an old house, and specific tech groups because of the tech I use, but I don’t miss the rest.
I left before they could ban me. I’d most certainly be gone by now.
Getting rid of that algorithm was probably the second most positive change I made in my life in the past 5 years.
I need to get back on for help on some stuff. Was just trying to find a plant or drug free to order to take the place of adhd medication that would enrich my life but I am unable to get because puritanical lawmakers have made it near impossible for people without quality insurance to get it. I need help with other work stuff, etc. And there aren’t enough people on here for a lot of it, especially niche subjects. This time I want to just use reddit for that, and keep time wasting on lemmy here, although to waste less time, winter I’ve more time to waste.
But my recent violations they link to the comment but it doesn’t show anything just a page that had a removed comment, so you only have the title of the post that it got removed from. It used to show it. I contested one, and pointed that out, and they just ignored it and upheld the violation. I never got permabanned though I’ve cycled through idk, 6 or more accounts in a few years, but increasingly often, 4 just last year I think so more than 6 total, my first for a year and a few months then quit for over a year and a few months after a second violation for racism for something that wasn’t against the rules, or even related to race in any way whatsoever, completely unrelated, was going to quit forever.
But I abandon them after a second violation with a 3 day ban, after the 1st violation I get a second pretty soon, but with a new account the heat seems to be off. Don’t want the permaban as I want it for help with stuff.
Mine came from simply saying that a drone would probably take care of a Russian solder seen in a video on crutches heading toward the front lines in Ukraine. Literally just that. Not saying it with any joy or approval, just a statement of fact. Phrased pretty damn much like I said it in this comment here.