Ask Lemmy

Yes this is me, I had like 8 or 9 accounts, I commented something "political" (I said health insurance is horrible and a joke in this country, and that it should be Medicare for all) in r/genx, sorry wasn't paying attention to each subreddits rules every time I posted a comment. My bad didn't realize how serious that was. Then got a 7 day ban will I accidentally (not on purpose at all, was not trying to evade a ban or anything I was just not paying attention) commented again on a gen x comment got instantly banned. I freaked out like what the hell. I asked for an appeal, got denied So a little while later I turned on my VPN (now I know how stupid that was) instantly I started getting notifications from all my accounts that they were banned for ban evasion. WTF stupidest thing is that I didn't know that I would be "forever banned" you know they could just say like you have a year or something. But really banning people forever seems fucking stupid. I didn't purposefully try to evade a ban from one subreddit, I was logged in with my other account and didn't even think to look at what Reddit I was posting to, I just commented while reading and bam almost 10 years of contributions, community building, good faith arguments all gone, but fucking horrible subreddits taking about how to r*pe lesbians can still fucking be on there. What a cesspool. I'm sad I'm banned but at the same time I think maybe it was for the best seeing just how addicted I had become to scrolling and commenting. I just miss my communities. I hope I can build some new and better relationships here.