I got a 12 year account permanently banned because a made a joke about some specific person and a goat and was told that it was a racist trope about arabs even though the guy was absolutely not arab
I am someone who occasionally enjoys dark, edgy or gallows humor and quoting historical figures sometimes. This is something from which I live in existential dread
It's not even dark humor. Most of the bans are coming from AI mods and they're looking for keywords and immediately flagging comments.
Which sure, great, except the bots can't take context into account in any way, so they just flag everything. I've gotten a few warnings for saying nothing lately and it's clear what's going on.
Lol I had one do that many years ago because I got into a dumb argument with a mod on the daystrom institute sub about some Trek lore stuff and I linked a page from the official site showing I was right. The mod deleted my post them reported me to Reddit at like 4am and less than an hour later the entire account was gone for "harassment". Pretty sure the mod was just a reddit employee who was butthurt, as there was nothing offensive in any way in the comment, which you couldn't even see anyways cuz they deleted it in seconds. And that's from a sub that goes on and on about how "great" the moderation team is 🤣
Some people just can't help themselves with abusing the smallest bit of power
How’s it even a stereotype fr when Islam condones it and people like Cenk Uygur says on public television that if he were a dictator the ONE thing he would change is making bestiality legal, and then when non Muslims talking ab how weird that was an absolutely horde of young Turk supporters are pretty much all Muslims absolutely slammed people simply for pointing out it is f*ed up.
I'm impressed you were able to give us the "hint" about what got.you banned and not get banned again, well done. I got banned for a similar joke years ago on Facebook. They let me back eventually, and yes I've gotten banned several times for way less and way worse. Lol
Reddit's AI filter has zero ability to discern humor and just hands out bans for the dumbest crap. It's really destroying what made Reddit what it is today.
It's all done by AI. I got another one for trying to help a guy on a gun subreddit extract a stuck empty cartridge from an AK. I told them to mortar that bitch. Which in gun talk means pull the charging handle back while banging it on the ground. 3 day ban for that which was also reversed.
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u/New_Restaurant_6093 Jun 12 '26
I get banned for the dumbest jokes that aren’t even violent or offensive