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> Problem: If you sign up for say LEGO reddit, but want to post a geo-political thing, then suddenly YOU CANNOT because you need a new account. Reddit doesn't

> Problem: If you sign up for say LEGO reddit, but want to post a geo-political thing, then suddenly YOU CANNOT because you need a new account. Reddit doesn't actually solve that problem because subreddit moderators often run ban scripts that check which subreddits you have interacted with. If you happen to talk to the wrong people, you wind up banned and need a new account to talk to other people.

Justsignedup 4y ago
that's a problem, yes. BUT. Reddit is popularity of the subreddit centric. So your own personal popularity doesn't really matter. Its why people make throw-away accounts all the darn time. Twitter is about personal popularity. This is why it is so important on twitter to have personal recognition. Mastodon is reddit style moderation, with twitter style identity/popularity.
Gigachad 4y ago
This only happens on hyper political subreddits you don't want to be in anyway.
- Sebb767 4y ago
  Last I checked, the ban bots exist in default subreddits (like /r/TwoXChromosomes) and there are reason you might want to comment in one of the shunned subs - not that you will usually know a sub is on that list until the bots get you. This kind of guilt by association is horrible.
  - yucky 4y ago
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    - Gigachad 4y ago
      As far as I can tell, default subs haven't been a thing for many years now. The new reddit UI will ask you to pick topics you are interested in and show you subs related to those. And that UI shows an absolutely huge number number of subs so if you pick your country as an interest, it will show you quite small local related subs for example.
  - deleted 4y ago
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  - lmm 4y ago
    Being a default in no way makes something not a "hyper political subreddit you don't want to be in anyway". TwoXChromosomes meets that description.
- yucky 4y ago
  It happens on /worldnews which is a huge sub and shouldn't (in theory) be hyperpolitical. I've even seen it on subs like /nhl that have have nothing to do with politics at all, banning people for posts on other subs that don't align with the mods politics. Not that it matters, Reddit is essentially useless now but at one point it was a great source of information.
  - flutas 4y ago
    r/comics went on one the other day from what I saw. Basically a mod (anonymous because modmail) telling someone "Republicans are all the racists, say this or continue to be banned." ... in the fucking comics sub. But to me, mods going off the deep end is just the latest cherry on top. They killed themselves to me back in 2016/2017(?) when they changed their algorithms to try and stop r/the_donald, it all feels stale now, like it is only updated at most once a day.
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delecti 4y ago
I have spent an unhealthy amount of time on reddit over the past 14 years and have never heard of such a thing. I find it unlikely that it's a significant problem which I've just been lucky to never brush against.
- tbrownaw 4y ago
  Ask your favorite search engine about Reddit ban "biological terrorism" for an example of such mass bans for posting in the wrong places from earlier this year.
- this_user 4y ago
  It exists, but it only really happens on either subs with zealot moderators who are trying to maintain ideological purity, or on normal subs who are just trying to get rid of particularly obnoxious users who are more often than not part of the first category.
- hejaodbsidndbd 4y ago
- cultureswitch 4y ago
  You're lucky. Naturally this isn't something that the moderators in question particularly like to talk about as it instantly gives them away as nutjobs. The thing with malicious moderation is that if it is done well, lurkers never realize. That in turn contributes to a warped view of reality. That said, reddit is still better than other social networks because, with some very big caveats, moderation is somewhat isolated from one subreddit to the next.
- burnished 4y ago
  I’ve only seen discussion of it on political subs, which I take to mean it mostly occurs on political subs.
- mypalmike 4y ago
  +1. While I trust this phenomenon happens, it's something I've never seen, and is certainly not a defining part of the experience. Source: Absurd amount of time on Reddit.
Spivak 4y ago
> moderators often run ban scripts that check which subreddits you have interacted with I made a user-centric version of this and it's the only thing that has made Reddit usable. All the people who participate in toxic communities are just gone, invisible. I don't have to see them, their replies don't show up in my inbox. It's absolute bliss. I'm sure there are plenty of false positives but I really don't care since the value of any particular user's comments is zero. Like people seem to intuitively get that /r/all is only usable once you filter out basically everything; my own list has a little over 1200 subreddits on it and then you add in keywords. It was the same with Twitter. The enjoyment and usability skyrocketed once you used a recursive blocker on worst kinds of people. I can understand the frustration but it's really hard to argue with the results.
- vxNsr 4y ago
  Is this an extension or user script? Care to share?
romwell 4y ago
>Reddit doesn't actually solve that problem because subreddit moderators often run ban scripts that check which subreddits you have interacted with. If you happen to talk to the wrong people, you wind up banned and need a new account to talk to other people. Broken analogy. You can get banned from any subreddit for any reason, but you won't need a new account, because you can still be on all the other subreddits and communicate with other users. Also, with over 140K combined karma (90K comment, 45K post karma, roughly), I have never experienced that issue on that 6-year-old account.

Justsignedup 4y ago

that's a problem, yes. BUT. Reddit is popularity of the subreddit centric. So your own personal popularity doesn't really matter. Its why people make throw-away accounts all the darn time. Twitter is about personal popularity. This is why it is so important on twitter to have personal recognition. Mastodon is reddit style moderation, with twitter style identity/popularity.

Gigachad 4y ago

This only happens on hyper political subreddits you don't want to be in anyway.

Sebb767 4y ago
Last I checked, the ban bots exist in default subreddits (like /r/TwoXChromosomes) and there are reason you might want to comment in one of the shunned subs - not that you will usually know a sub is on that list until the bots get you. This kind of guilt by association is horrible.
- yucky 4y ago
  [flagged]
  - Gigachad 4y ago
    As far as I can tell, default subs haven't been a thing for many years now. The new reddit UI will ask you to pick topics you are interested in and show you subs related to those. And that UI shows an absolutely huge number number of subs so if you pick your country as an interest, it will show you quite small local related subs for example.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]
- lmm 4y ago
  Being a default in no way makes something not a "hyper political subreddit you don't want to be in anyway". TwoXChromosomes meets that description.
yucky 4y ago
It happens on /worldnews which is a huge sub and shouldn't (in theory) be hyperpolitical. I've even seen it on subs like /nhl that have have nothing to do with politics at all, banning people for posts on other subs that don't align with the mods politics. Not that it matters, Reddit is essentially useless now but at one point it was a great source of information.
- flutas 4y ago
  r/comics went on one the other day from what I saw. Basically a mod (anonymous because modmail) telling someone "Republicans are all the racists, say this or continue to be banned." ... in the fucking comics sub. But to me, mods going off the deep end is just the latest cherry on top. They killed themselves to me back in 2016/2017(?) when they changed their algorithms to try and stop r/the_donald, it all feels stale now, like it is only updated at most once a day.
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]

delecti 4y ago

I have spent an unhealthy amount of time on reddit over the past 14 years and have never heard of such a thing. I find it unlikely that it's a significant problem which I've just been lucky to never brush against.

tbrownaw 4y ago
Ask your favorite search engine about Reddit ban "biological terrorism" for an example of such mass bans for posting in the wrong places from earlier this year.
this_user 4y ago
It exists, but it only really happens on either subs with zealot moderators who are trying to maintain ideological purity, or on normal subs who are just trying to get rid of particularly obnoxious users who are more often than not part of the first category.
hejaodbsidndbd 4y ago
cultureswitch 4y ago
You're lucky. Naturally this isn't something that the moderators in question particularly like to talk about as it instantly gives them away as nutjobs. The thing with malicious moderation is that if it is done well, lurkers never realize. That in turn contributes to a warped view of reality. That said, reddit is still better than other social networks because, with some very big caveats, moderation is somewhat isolated from one subreddit to the next.
burnished 4y ago
I’ve only seen discussion of it on political subs, which I take to mean it mostly occurs on political subs.
mypalmike 4y ago
+1. While I trust this phenomenon happens, it's something I've never seen, and is certainly not a defining part of the experience. Source: Absurd amount of time on Reddit.

Spivak 4y ago

> moderators often run ban scripts that check which subreddits you have interacted with I made a user-centric version of this and it's the only thing that has made Reddit usable. All the people who participate in toxic communities are just gone, invisible. I don't have to see them, their replies don't show up in my inbox. It's absolute bliss. I'm sure there are plenty of false positives but I really don't care since the value of any particular user's comments is zero. Like people seem to intuitively get that /r/all is only usable once you filter out basically everything; my own list has a little over 1200 subreddits on it and then you add in keywords. It was the same with Twitter. The enjoyment and usability skyrocketed once you used a recursive blocker on worst kinds of people. I can understand the frustration but it's really hard to argue with the results.

vxNsr 4y ago
Is this an extension or user script? Care to share?

romwell 4y ago

>Reddit doesn't actually solve that problem because subreddit moderators often run ban scripts that check which subreddits you have interacted with. If you happen to talk to the wrong people, you wind up banned and need a new account to talk to other people. Broken analogy. You can get banned from any subreddit for any reason, but you won't need a new account, because you can still be on all the other subreddits and communicate with other users. Also, with over 140K combined karma (90K comment, 45K post karma, roughly), I have never experienced that issue on that 6-year-old account.