I've always wanted to talk about how weird it was scrolling through reddit and then suddenly seeing myself on the front page. I was banned from reddit for talking about politics (I am anti trump) on the air force reddit so I wasn't even able to comment on a post about me.
For some backstory, I was returning from a Halloween cruise and it was the only clean shirt I had left (I was planning on wearing it during the cruise as there were no children allowed on the cruise and with the theme I thought it would get a few laughs or at least start a conversation). I never did though and doing laundry on a cruise was quite expensive (I think 50 dollars per load or something like that). I tried to hide the shirt as best I could throughout the day as I do think it was slightly inappropriate to wear in a public setting.
For the record, I love all the comments roasting me and I laughed all fucking day reading them!
Anyways, I have always wanted to publicly talk about this and in my search for reddit alternatives I found lemmy so here we are. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
Proof: https://i.imgur.com/rd9DPO8.jpeg
Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1pl680g/seen_in_miami_airport_gate_area/
I know this is Lemmy and Reddit is bad etc., but FYI when you get banned from one subreddit by its mods, it doesn't ban you from the entirety of Reddit. You could comment if you wanted.
I was temp banned a few times from the air force reddit and then I think they reported it to the admins because I had a perma ban. I tried making another account and it shortly got banned as well. It's definitely a site wide ban.
Ah, yeah, when you create another account to bypass a subreddit ban (or if they think you did it for that reasons), the admins suspend your account. It can be very hard to come back after that, because all future accounts could be flagged as trying to bypass the sanctions.
TBF, even if it isn't a perfect system, as an ex mod of a very active sub (a national sub), I prefer that the admins take actions.
Yeah, while I think it is a stilly thing to ban for I do respect them for actually sticking to their rules.