Once, years ago after a bad school shooting, I went to the conservative subreddit to argue with them about gun control (specifically improper storage and liability) because I was so bothered by the shooting and was feeling impassioned.
Didn’t get banned by the conservatives for that, but I got auto-banned from a whole list of unrelated subreddits for even speaking to them. What kind of mean-girls nonsense is that? It was like I was being ostracized for briefly sitting at the wrong lunch table.
There is/was a Firefox extension that mods used which would put a warning on an account that participated in any of those subs. Mods are supposed to look into the nature of that participation before acting on it but of course not many did.
I engage with conservative folks on various subs because I find they are often easier to sway over to materialist lefty thinking than liberals are. Post-GamerGate, doing so got me autobanned from a whole bunch of subreddits, including various feminist, socialist, progressive spaces.
As far as I’m aware no right-wing (or adjacent) sub banned me for being a straight up socialist, including places like conservative and mensrights.
This shit is part of why libs suck and will keep losing.
Ha! I got banned from r/mensrights because as a working medic, I tried to explain why more public awareness campaigning for women and heart attacks was so important. And that’s because they often do not present classic symptomology like men mostly do. So it can be hard to diagnose in the wild. And it’s kind of important to get it right as fast as possible.
Once, years ago after a bad school shooting, I went to the conservative subreddit to argue with them about gun control (specifically improper storage and liability) because I was so bothered by the shooting and was feeling impassioned.
Didn’t get banned by the conservatives for that, but I got auto-banned from a whole list of unrelated subreddits for even speaking to them. What kind of mean-girls nonsense is that? It was like I was being ostracized for briefly sitting at the wrong lunch table.
There is/was a Firefox extension that mods used which would put a warning on an account that participated in any of those subs. Mods are supposed to look into the nature of that participation before acting on it but of course not many did.
Whatever it was felt automated. It was very shortly after and all happened at once. I doubt any human looked at it.
I remember people talking about the bots at the time.
Are you saying reddit mods can be lazy to the point of abusive? Never!
anyone can just look at thier mod help sub, where they request assistance from the admins, you can tell some of them are pretty lazy or petty.
Mods that autoban based on participation in subs should have their mod privs revoked or be banned themselves.
Let me take a guess two of the subs that banned you, /r/upliftingnews and /r/mademesmile?
I can’t remember which ones they were now - it’s been years. I just remember laughing at how unrelated most were.
I engage with conservative folks on various subs because I find they are often easier to sway over to materialist lefty thinking than liberals are. Post-GamerGate, doing so got me autobanned from a whole bunch of subreddits, including various feminist, socialist, progressive spaces.
As far as I’m aware no right-wing (or adjacent) sub banned me for being a straight up socialist, including places like conservative and mensrights.
This shit is part of why libs suck and will keep losing.
Ha! I got banned from r/mensrights because as a working medic, I tried to explain why more public awareness campaigning for women and heart attacks was so important. And that’s because they often do not present classic symptomology like men mostly do. So it can be hard to diagnose in the wild. And it’s kind of important to get it right as fast as possible.
Idiots.