After the Charlottesville protests and the guy ran everyone down with his car, I went to /b and it was flooded with messages telling everyone to attack more people with cars
I had a nasty habit to argue with subreddit mods after being banned for mild violations. Obviously that would only happen when the penalty had been inadequate, otherwise I would keep my mouth shut.
It happened two times, at first I was banned for a week on the whole platform. Second time, I was permanently banned from reddit.
Mind you, these two were the only occasions I was banned from reddit per se. I would naturally receive bans on various subreddit for reasons, but never from the entire website.
Funny how the most powerful people on reddit are also most fragile and best protected by the admins.
i've been a mod in one pretty large and active online community and somehow power has never gotten into my head, but i've seen so many completely trip out over the smallest non-issues, fucking bizarre
Loved when I got banned for a few days because I answered something in a subreddit that apparently didn’t allow “opinion based answers”. I don’t even remember what the actual question was but it was something like “How do you think the pyramids were made”?
Just take the question down instead of banning people for answering. There is no non-opinion based answer to questions like that. Some might be more widely accepted than others but that’s about it.
I just replied with “might as well make it a permanent ban cause I’m blocking the sub”. Not gonna even waste my time contributing to communities like that.
The screenshot says this violated rule 4 or the sitewide rules:
Rule 4
Do not share or encourage the sharing of sexual, abusive, or suggestive content involving minors. Any predatory or inappropriate behavior involving a minor is also strictly prohibited.
reeSilva is correct, but for the sake of everyone's sanity: AVOID LINKEDIN AT ALL COSTS. That's where all the self-important and out of touch people hang out and they're the absolute worst.
u will probably feel less welcomed if u arent white and male and a rightoid in 4chan than reddit but honestly not by much, i think the critical difference is that on reddit u can filter ur experience so all the shits stains hang out in their own subs and the normal people avoid them, but im not sure if that is actually better, because it permits a site which is at least tolerant of some of the shittiest ideologies and prejudices around to be main stream while everyone rightfully regards 4chan as what it truly is.
i suppose its much the same here with lemmy being pretty respectable but with vile people being allowed to leak thru from right wing cesspools like lemmy.world.