After a year away from Reddit, curiosity got the better of me

And fuck Spez

The same thing will happen here if we're not vigilant. Here's the problem:

Conservatives love trolling, and they don't care if they break every rule to push their agenda. Progressives do not love trolling as much.

A troll is out to start a fight and to cause problems. This means that conservatives are out there in every subreddit/community trolling. One way to troll is to become an expert at reporting things. Read all comments trying to find anything that could get them banned. If trolls don't find something that can get their targets banned, then they can join the conversation. Either trolls can pretend like they agree with them, and see if you can't get them to say something that's technically against the rules, or they can argue with them, and troll them just within the bounds of the rules, in the hopes that they'll retaliate outside of the rules, so they can be reported.

Meanwhile, progressives are less likely to troll. They're not looking for reasons to report. They're trying to discuss the issues, not abuse the system.

And conservative moderators are going to ban people for reporting things if they detect that there is political disagreement, making it more difficult to bother reading and participating. Meanwhile normal moderators will judge based on the actual reports.

I wish he had actually gone. I imagine things would have been easier.

they sanewashed the hell out of it, plus most of them got a slap on the wrist from 1/6. i think one older lady admitted she was wrong to go 1/6, and denied her "commute sentence" because it was the right thing to do.

When I got permabanned on Reddit I took the opportunity to step away from scrolling. I got a lot accomplished and my mental heath improved. Since Lemmy is slow, it works well, I can't spend hours here. Unfortunately my baser instincts took over and I find myself scrolling the news app for hours instead..

reddit now hates people dropping links, they ban people for that now.

hoping Digg 2.0 is something of value

My cousin’s permaban was for saying “I won’t let a single Saiyan live” in a dragon ball sub. Saiyans are not real.

And then actual, unchecked racism is rampant.

I hope you didn't threaten to feed a vogon's grandmother to the ravenous bugblatter beast of trall?

My cat's name is Clark, which gradually sometimes became Clark-a-doodle, which became Doodle, which became Doodlebug, which became Bug and occasionally Buggle.

When I'm frustrated with him, it's now sometimes Frettled Gruntbuggly.

Do Not Comply In Advance

https://ia801505.us.archive.org/11/items/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-the-twentieth-century-by-timothy-snyder-z-lib.org/On%20Tyranny%20Twenty%20Lessons%20from%20the%20Twentieth%20Century%20by%20Timothy%20Snyder%20%28z-lib.org%29.pdf

*A fascist place.

Are they saying that or is it an echo from 10 years ago? (yes and)

At this point I'm sure they think Raygun was a bleeding heart Liberal.

Censorship and fascism.

its how facebook operates, they just want users to doomscroll the site, and dont want actual users.

yea, a temp suspension. alot of people reported they were fully perma banned after a temp banned down the line. the moment my temp ban hit in feburary, i was shocked to recieved so many perma-ban messages, they targeted all your accounts that you have used.

dont even need to say anything, looking at it wrong will get you shadowbanned: posting too fast, too much, or too similar to another comment, or positng too soon after account creation will get you banned. or somehow your browser or ip changes to suddenly too.

you can get banned from reddit for saying that people like Hitler shouldn't exist

It's difficult to leave my niche subs, but fucking hell there's soooo much bot content. Like, I come to lemmy and am suddenly reminded of how humans talk.

I missed AskHistorians for a little while when I left, but I checked back recently and it's clear that all the interesting history questions were asked and answered years ago. All that's left is "what if Hitler had three balls instead of one?" over and over again.

i was part of the february purge too, for REPORTING misinformation about trump. on r/tech, that gave me a temp ban, then a triggered a full multi account ban, with no explanation at all. reddit was testing thier newly deployed AI moderation in FEB.

What is "a ban evader"

more like facebook 2.0 and X hybrid, offspring.

This particular incident happened in r/law

All of them

Yeah, they attempted to go abstract to try to prove I don't entirely know what

or, reddit is only going after the lowest hanging fruit, and leaving propaganda bots mostly untouched. they only do something when public complaints makes a stink about these bots. i noticed this trend, propaganda bots are rampant, but there more or less very little way to remove them. the massive purges, filters have been going after real users, OF accounts, or link sharing types. by the way it only sets back the latter 2 anyways temporarily, while IRL who arent using ban evasion methods are permanently banned.

First post floats like indecisison, a common tactic to take down known facts.

I think the context of the original thread was something about Greta Thunberg and trying to say she is a terrorist for going to Gaza or something ridiculous and they tried to use the Trump not actually going to the Capitol building against the argument that Trump was responsible for the Jan 6th insurrection

I don't know, I was just trying to neutralize the crazy with objective reality

Yeah, same here. The second question is rhetorical. He was clearly in agreement. Not sure why that guy was down voted or why OP was banned.

not saying i agree with the ban, but "just asking a question" doesn't mean shit. there are plenty of questions you could pose that could incite violence, racism, and hate

reminds me of the south park episode dances with smurfs

And AI-generated user profiling. Like say if you hate fascists in general, admire a certain Luigi and even talk about committing violence against fascists, the mods/admins will pull up that profile and use it to slap a ban.

They like hobbyists. They don't want hobbyists talking about progressive politics and propaganda of the deed.

Surprised me too

Apparently everyone is a top commenter now

Correct

its reddit banning you. A SERIAL ban evaders, can get shadowban eventually, which mean they silence all your posts, so nobody can see it but you, so you wouldnt know yout ban. this form of ban is harder to get around.

i feel like its AI all the way top down. AI flag stuff, ai review it by looking for keywords, and AI issuing the ban, and the rejection of appeals in most cases. ive only seen it rarely when the admins UNBAN someone, on the shadowban sub. its very rare to get unbanned these days. usually shadowban were reserved the worst offendors, like repeat trolls,,,etc.

Wait, hang on, is the expression not "stepped foot?" What am I missing?