So, I have a main account, where I’m the asshole editor with lots of opinions, and then two others for things a bit more spicy.
Both of those have been suspended for “suspicious activity” roughly 30 hours apart. For, you know, posting what I usually do.
The thing is, one of these – I’m in the eight-year club there – is associated with an email address that was terminated for lack of use, so I can’t reset my password as prescribed.
The other was suspended yesterday every single time I posted anything, resulting in multiple password resets. I’ve not posted anything there today, but … hey, look, it’s suspended again.
Is Reddit just making a hard turn toward banning adult content? r/help seems to have a few other people in my boat wondering what the fuck is going on, but I can’t find any sources suggesting a shift in policy. And I can’t post in r/help on my main … the submit button does nothing.
These posts boggle the mind. How can you be so unaware of reddit’s downfall?! I’m supremely envious, unironically.
A suspension which is reversed on password reset? That sounds odd. Best thing to do would be to password reset to unsuspend the account and then immediately raise a ticket with the admins.
It’s “activity related” – basically, they’re claiming my account was hacked, so I need to reset my password. Simple enough with access to the email associated with the account, which I don’t have. They’re not claiming any sort of TOS violation, just suspicious activity.
There must be something going on; since your original post, I’ve had a number of password reset attempts and I’ve been told by other people they’ve had the same but we all have 2FA.
I find some of the subreddits that aren’t attractive for selling/marketing are ok. Otherwise…it’s been falling faster than my self-confidence. Which is pretty damn fast.
I was banned quite some time ago. I was a 13 year user at that time. I used Reddit without any issues for many years, until a few years back when my posts started to get removed and got temporary bans. I was permanently banned for a response to a post where someone that said it was a women’s own fault for getting raped as they should dress appropriately, that man was hit by a woman. I posted that he deserved that. I got banned right away for “inciting violence”. I guess it is OK to incite rape? I don’t really miss it that much, but maybe I’ll still try again some time. I’ll just refrain from any meaningful discussion.
idk but i just got perm banned an hour ago for saying that maybe nyc subway riders shouldn’t sit around watching tiktokers commit assault and battery on sleeping passengers, on a video of a tiktoker committing assault and battery on a sleeping passenger where nobody even said anything and barely looked away from their phones. Never going back.
Big jump in the use of poorly written mod bots, annnd the roll out of an AI profiler which gives mods a summary of the personalities & interests & Reddit behaviour of any user participating in their subreddit.
It’s probably time to leave reddit; even if you do manage to get your accounts back.
As a former mod of /r/Genderqueer I can say they’ve been terminally enshittifying for a while now; and have gone full AI rampage to eliminate human mods because they get accused of bias constantly. It doesn’t help that some mods are legitimately bad too; some of the stories I could tell you from when I was in private mod-only meta-reddit communities would curl your toes. Even I wasn’t without my biases; but I had the interest of my community at heart…which, as you know, nonbinary and genderqueer people are very vulnerable to abuse and harrassment.
It’s time to step off the reddit mothership, and don’t bother looking back unless you must. Tools like redlib can at least help you view reddit posts still, anonymously even if you can’t comment.
I’ve been running my own personal Redlib instance locally using WSL2, Docker and Podman. It’s been invaluable in ensuring I can still read things I need to read.
It’s a sign to layoff Reddit and be active on Lemmy.
I started !gnucash@lemmy.ml a couple of days ago mainly to give me a little motivation to log on here daily and post something. Feels like I’m posting into the void at this point, but I did get three subscribers and a handful of upvotes 🤣. I’m still spending 90% of my time over at Reddit, but if we want alternatives we definitely need to participate more.
3 subscribers in 3 days is fair. If you keep up posting regularly. You should continue to get more subs. Subscribed in case I find an interesting post
Thanks!
Love gnucash and I use it all the time … liked, subscribed to the community and I’ll do my best to check in
Thanks!
You know, I was considering reporting this for self-advertising, but I decided not to. It’s a sad state of affairs that in addition to our core competencies, everyone’s supposed to be good at the deception we call “marketing.”
Thanks. I’m not selling anything or gaining anything from this. Reporting it wouldn’t have hurt me in the slightest. I’m just trying to maybe give some new people a reason to check Lemmy now and then.
I’m, uh, somewhat active on here, if you’d like to check out my profile.
I know. It’s obvious from your post. I made that comment in jest.
No you didn’t. You probably didn’t bother checking before running your mouth and now that you’ve been caught being an asshole you’re doing the republican trademark “can’t you take a joke?”
I don’t think anyone says “it’s a sign” seriously.
While I appreciate where you’re coming from, especially as you’re defending me, one of the guidelines here is to assume good faith. While I have no idea how they divined that from my comment, let’s avoid direct personal attacks.
While I have no idea how they divined that from my comment,
My guess: There’s no way a self-described asshole with lots of opinions could resist lemmy. Source: Am an asshole with lots of opinions, this place is great and I hate it.
Hey, I used to get paid for being an opinionated asshole! And fuck your burn. (ask your burner friends)
Maybe, you should reflect on your self before commenting and making assumption about others. I didn’t write anything malicious or name call anyone.
caught being an asshole you’re doing the republican trademark “can’t you take a joke?”
I had to double check and see if you were the OP. Seeing the way you took it so personally and had to call me an asshole. It speaks more about you than me or anyone.
Let’s tone it down. I’ve already addressed why that comment was wildly out of line, and we try to come to consensus here. I can see why you thought it was me, though. 🤣
It was surprising why a random person would attack on a mundane comment out of nowhere.
I checked the mod history and apparently, the purpose is to troll and that person has been banned and had their comments removed from many communities recently.
Anyway, peace.
My guess: bot mods. Reddit employed some LLM-based bot “moderation” across the site, and those bans are false positives.
Reddit doesn’t have an LLM moderation solution; the only thing close is AI generated summaries of profiles for mods which is a shittier version of Toolbox account summaries.
By “moderation” I don’t mean the unpaid volunteers taking care of individual subreddits. I mean the Reddit employees and/or tools enforcing site-wide rules, answering directly to the administrators and/or Reddit Inc.
In other words I think Reddit is implementing some automated enforcement of global rules, through LLM bots or similar, and since the bots don’t really understand what users say, they’re fucking it up all the time.
I asked for a recommendation for raw denim repair in my city subreddit. Removed and suspended. 15 year old account. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe “raw” is now a flagged word? Seriously, the fact that all manner of people are suddenly getting cut off is supremely suspicious.
Lmao, if ‘raw’ is a naughty ban worth word at Reddit…. Why even use that garbage.
In my country, we call jeans “rifle” (pronounced /rɪ’flɛ/). No, really. People get suspended from Facebook Marketplace all the time.
Ah, the classic Chevy Nova problem with translation.
Whatwas the problem with translating Chevy Nova?
Apocryphal.
Supposedly, “No va” means “no go”, or “It doesn’t run” in Spanish.
It’s largely a myth. The Nova actually sold very well in Latin American countries.
Oh, I’ve got one too, the way you pronounce SX7 as in the Suzuki model in Hungarian literally means “falls apart”, “esik szét”.
Also Tesco was selling cheap power tools for a while branded Kinzo, meaning “torturer” in Hungarian.
Ford Kuga. The word kuga means plague in my language, and—according to Wikipedia—as a result the model has had lower sales in the region.
Plus if this was accurate Portuguese speakers would get banned all the time. (“Nova” is “new”, so a really common word.)
I do know what Powderhorn is talking about, but by a different name - the Scunthorpe problem.
I heard it from my middle school Spanish teacher, but per Wikipedia, you’re correct
Yeah, forget it, it is a bots place anyway… my account is maybe 15 or 16 years old, I emptied everything with a tool, I still have the account and lurk from time to time for some sub, but never upvote/post/comment since the API fiasco
So … you only downvote? 🤣
Reddit’s moderation bots have been extremely trigger happy for many years.
I got my main account, 10+ years club, suspended… appealed it, and got banned. Then every account I had ever logged into with the same IP, app, or browser as the banned one, at any moment in the past, got banned in cascade.
Once you get on Reddit’s bad side, there’s no going back. Suspensions add flags to Reddit’s internal “shadow profile” of every account ever linked in any way. They all become more likely to get flagged and suspended, which gets them flagged even more in turn, until Reddit’s ban-evasion system kicks in. Then, they’re all toast.
To add insult to injury… once triggered, the bots go back checking your history, applying the most recent moderation guidelines retroactively. Over the following months, the account kept getting notifications about old comments being removed, followed by subreddit bans.
I could write a lot here, but “that just sucks” carries enough weight that I don’t need to go 40".
Reddits been turning to shit for years. Surprised people here still use it.
So, if I have a question about my 24V off-grid PV system, you’re suggesting I reach out to Beehaw instead of the millions of people on Reddit who can answer such questions? Or that any local community on Lemmy scales like my local subreddit?
I spend most of my time here but rely on Reddit for other needs.
millions of people
Doubt. Most are probably bots now, let alone able to answer a question like that.
r/vandwellers has plenty of real people. Tells you a bit about the state of the economy. Sure, there are likely some bots, but it’s hardly a topic worthy of their attention.
It’s just time
I started out on reddit years ago and I even became a mod in a small niche community I grew from a dozen people to about 500 … it took about six years of regular engagement and contact with people. It was actual work in my free time but I enjoyed it.
Same is happening here but lemmy has competition … reddit was great years ago and no one needed alternatives so they stayed with it and no one could compete because there was no need for anyone to do anything.
But now everything is in transition and it’s going to take years to see where things go.
I don’t care, I’m staying here, I get my fill here, people are nice and it feels a bit like reddit ten years ago. Can’t wait to see what this place looks like in ten years.
I think we all get that it will take time, but whilst we wait, what happens about his PV system?
Pay a dude
People don’t seem to notice how we’ve stopped paying dudes. Now that we’ve stopped paying dudes, is anything cheaper?
Heh … I just spent a week and a half crashing with a friend to get help troubleshooting my fridge. I brought the final pieces he needed to get the solar for his van hooked up because they were at this point spares and relics of dead-ends. You don’t need to pay a guy; you just need to know the right person.
Oh, it’s going fine just now. Surprisingly well, in fact, given how many tree branches have gotten to know my solar panels in the biblical sense.
Reddit is corporate-controlled and moderators/administrators can run amok so easily. I was banned from /r/news years ago with no explanation…I appealed several times with no responses.
I founded /r/AskBibleScholars and have no issues there.
I believe that you already know the answers to your own questions.
The speed at which these suspensions are being done suggests zero human input. And I know the difference between mod removal and a sitewide blanket suspension.
I also had an account that made it to the frontpage once with a gif that I illustrated and animated myself. Shortly after, the account got shadow banned an I never learned why. Didn’t post anything illegal or even weird with it. Reddit moderation is such a shit show.
There was recently a project I was looking into. The only way to contact them was Reddit and Discord. Made a post on Reddit with a several years old account. It was instantly removed by Reddit admin with no explanation. It was not spicy in any way. Literally just asking a question about the project. Fuck me, I guess. Moved on to another project.
No, no … fuck u/spez.
