It's a sign to layoff Reddit and be active on Lemmy.
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Relaxed section for discussion and debate that doesn't fit anywhere else. Whether it's advice, how your week is going, a link that's at the back of your mind, or something like that, it can likely go here.
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I asked for a recommendation for raw denim repair in my city subreddit. Removed and suspended. 15 year old account. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe "raw" is now a flagged word? Seriously, the fact that all manner of people are suddenly getting cut off is supremely suspicious.
Lmao, if ‘raw’ is a naughty ban worth word at Reddit…. Why even use that garbage.
In my country, we call jeans "rifle" (pronounced /rɪ'flɛ/). No, really. People get suspended from Facebook Marketplace all the time.
Ah, the classic Chevy Nova problem with translation.
Whatwas the problem with translating Chevy Nova?
Apocryphal.
Supposedly, "No va" means "no go", or "It doesn't run" in Spanish.
It's largely a myth. The Nova actually sold very well in Latin American countries.
Oh, I've got one too, the way you pronounce SX7 as in the Suzuki model in Hungarian literally means "falls apart", "esik szét".
Also Tesco was selling cheap power tools for a while branded Kinzo, meaning "torturer" in Hungarian.
Ford Kuga. The word kuga means plague in my language, and—according to Wikipedia—as a result the model has had lower sales in the region.
Plus if this was accurate Portuguese speakers would get banned all the time. ("Nova" is "new", so a really common word.)
I do know what Powderhorn is talking about, but by a different name - the Scunthorpe problem.
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My guess: bot mods. Reddit employed some LLM-based bot "moderation" across the site, and those bans are false positives.
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It's probably time to leave reddit; even if you do manage to get your accounts back.
As a former mod of /r/Genderqueer I can say they've been terminally enshittifying for a while now; and have gone full AI rampage to eliminate human mods because they get accused of bias constantly. It doesn't help that some mods are legitimately bad too; some of the stories I could tell you from when I was in private mod-only meta-reddit communities would curl your toes. Even I wasn't without my biases; but I had the interest of my community at heart...which, as you know, nonbinary and genderqueer people are very vulnerable to abuse and harrassment.
It's time to step off the reddit mothership, and don't bother looking back unless you must. Tools like redlib can at least help you view reddit posts still, anonymously even if you can't comment.
I've been running my own personal Redlib instance locally using WSL2, Docker and Podman. It's been invaluable in ensuring I can still read things I need to read.
Reddit is corporate-controlled and moderators/administrators can run amok so easily. I was banned from /r/news years ago with no explanation...I appealed several times with no responses.
I founded /r/AskBibleScholars and have no issues there.
I believe that you already know the answers to your own questions.
The speed at which these suspensions are being done suggests zero human input. And I know the difference between mod removal and a sitewide blanket suspension.
I also had an account that made it to the frontpage once with a gif that I illustrated and animated myself. Shortly after, the account got shadow banned an I never learned why. Didn’t post anything illegal or even weird with it. Reddit moderation is such a shit show.
Reddits been turning to shit for years. Surprised people here still use it.
So, if I have a question about my 24V off-grid PV system, you're suggesting I reach out to Beehaw instead of the millions of people on Reddit who can answer such questions? Or that any local community on Lemmy scales like my local subreddit?
I spend most of my time here but rely on Reddit for other needs.
It's just time
I started out on reddit years ago and I even became a mod in a small niche community I grew from a dozen people to about 500 ..... it took about six years of regular engagement and contact with people. It was actual work in my free time but I enjoyed it.
Same is happening here but lemmy has competition .... reddit was great years ago and no one needed alternatives so they stayed with it and no one could compete because there was no need for anyone to do anything.
But now everything is in transition and it's going to take years to see where things go.
I don't care, I'm staying here, I get my fill here, people are nice and it feels a bit like reddit ten years ago. Can't wait to see what this place looks like in ten years.
I think we all get that it will take time, but whilst we wait, what happens about his PV system?
Pay a dude
People don't seem to notice how we've stopped paying dudes. Now that we've stopped paying dudes, is anything cheaper?
Heh ... I just spent a week and a half crashing with a friend to get help troubleshooting my fridge. I brought the final pieces he needed to get the solar for his van hooked up because they were at this point spares and relics of dead-ends. You don't need to pay a guy; you just need to know the right person.
Oh, it's going fine just now. Surprisingly well, in fact, given how many tree branches have gotten to know my solar panels in the biblical sense.
millions of people
Doubt. Most are probably bots now, let alone able to answer a question like that.
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They ban you for all kinds of nonsense. I had a couple turned over on appeal. My latest ban was for 7 days for threatening violence because I said I hoped those guys who got caught fomenting unrest in Greenland were charged with something serious made an example. The comment was on topic, within the confines of the justice system and made no threat against anyone. Reddit has some really weird moderation. I just deleted the account. Fediverse is better for actual engagement anyway.
This isn't a ban; it's a suspension that I can't recover from because my email address associated with that account no longer works.
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Reddit's moderation bots have been extremely trigger happy for many years.
I got my main account, 10+ years club, suspended... appealed it, and got banned. Then every account I had ever logged into with the same IP, app, or browser as the banned one, at any moment in the past, got banned in cascade.
Once you get on Reddit's bad side, there's no going back. Suspensions add flags to Reddit's internal "shadow profile" of every account ever linked in any way. They all become more likely to get flagged and suspended, which gets them flagged even more in turn, until Reddit's ban-evasion system kicks in. Then, they're all toast.
To add insult to injury... once triggered, the bots go back checking your history, applying the most recent moderation guidelines retroactively. Over the following months, the account kept getting notifications about old comments being removed, followed by subreddit bans.
I could write a lot here, but "that just sucks" carries enough weight that I don't need to go 40".
Yeah, forget it, it is a bots place anyway... my account is maybe 15 or 16 years old, I emptied everything with a tool, I still have the account and lurk from time to time for some sub, but never upvote/post/comment since the API fiasco
So ... you only downvote? 🤣
It's a broken shithole of a website, didn't you get the memo?
idk but i just got perm banned an hour ago for saying that maybe nyc subway riders shouldn't sit around watching tiktokers commit assault and battery on sleeping passengers, on a video of a tiktoker committing assault and battery on a sleeping passenger where nobody even said anything and barely looked away from their phones. Never going back.
Big jump in the use of poorly written mod bots, annnd the roll out of an AI profiler which gives mods a summary of the personalities & interests & Reddit behaviour of any user participating in their subreddit.
I find some of the subreddits that aren't attractive for selling/marketing are ok. Otherwise...it's been falling faster than my self-confidence. Which is pretty damn fast.
A suspension which is reversed on password reset? That sounds odd. Best thing to do would be to password reset to unsuspend the account and then immediately raise a ticket with the admins.
It's "activity related" -- basically, they're claiming my account was hacked, so I need to reset my password. Simple enough with access to the email associated with the account, which I don't have. They're not claiming any sort of TOS violation, just suspicious activity.
There must be something going on; since your original post, I've had a number of password reset attempts and I've been told by other people they've had the same but we all have 2FA.
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