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Now show us the percentage of those that are real people and not bots, and the number of accounts that are from previously banned users. I mean heck I've gotten

Now show us the percentage of those that are real people and not bots, and the number of accounts that are from previously banned users. I mean heck I've gotten to the point where I can only go 2 or 3 months before my account gets banned and then I have to spin up a new one. Come to think of it that might be a reason why their ban happy, more people you ban who come back looks like a new user signup.

Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
> I mean heck I've gotten to the point where I can only go 2 or 3 months before my account gets banned and then I have to spin up a new one. User error. It's really not hard to not get banned. Site-wide, at least. I'm pretty active and my account is nearly 13 years old.
- 9991 3y ago
  Pretty easy if you have no controversial opinions.
  - Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
    This reeks of "Oh you know the ones" https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1050391663552671744?lang=en https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/105039166355267174... Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes? Con: LOL no...no not those views Me: So....deregulation? Con: Haha no not those views either Me: Which views, exactly? Con: Oh, you know the ones
    - cactusplant7374 3y ago
      There is a blog post describing the criminal history of a particular mod. If you post that link on Reddit you are automatically banned.
    - gustavus 3y ago
      If you must know some reasons I got banned is horrible awful terrible evil opinions such as - suggesting that COVID-19 was the result of a lab leak due to not following safety protocols - Questioning if the full shutdown of schools for a disease which had a relatively low mortality rate in children was the best decisio and if we fully had considered the impacts. - suggesting that predators could abuse gender self identification laws to gain access to new victims. - and one satirical posts advocating "let us grill it all in a beautiful nuclear inferno." It seems though you are suggesting there are only a narrowly defined opinions that are acceptable to hold and that deviations outside of those are so heretical that should not be allowed to exist.
      - Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
        Were you getting banned site-wide for expressing those opinions? Or just banned from specific subs? Only admins can ban you site-wide or shadowban you, and I can't imagine expressing any of those opinions being worthy of a site-wide ban from an admin unless you expressed them in an offensive way. ie, for the first opinion, using a slur when referring to the Chinese lab workers, or basically in any way accusing them of poor standards because they're Chinese. Likewise, for the third opinion, I've too often seen transphobia get disguised as concern trolling. If it's moderators banning you from specific subs...well...that's just shitty moderators. Some of them are extremely power-hungry and ban happy, but they're not employees of reddit, and their actions should not be reflected on reddit as a whole.

Sohcahtoa82 3y ago

> I mean heck I've gotten to the point where I can only go 2 or 3 months before my account gets banned and then I have to spin up a new one. User error. It's really not hard to not get banned. Site-wide, at least. I'm pretty active and my account is nearly 13 years old.

9991 3y ago
Pretty easy if you have no controversial opinions.
- Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
  This reeks of "Oh you know the ones" https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1050391663552671744?lang=en https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/105039166355267174... Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes? Con: LOL no...no not those views Me: So....deregulation? Con: Haha no not those views either Me: Which views, exactly? Con: Oh, you know the ones
  - cactusplant7374 3y ago
    There is a blog post describing the criminal history of a particular mod. If you post that link on Reddit you are automatically banned.
  - gustavus 3y ago
    If you must know some reasons I got banned is horrible awful terrible evil opinions such as - suggesting that COVID-19 was the result of a lab leak due to not following safety protocols - Questioning if the full shutdown of schools for a disease which had a relatively low mortality rate in children was the best decisio and if we fully had considered the impacts. - suggesting that predators could abuse gender self identification laws to gain access to new victims. - and one satirical posts advocating "let us grill it all in a beautiful nuclear inferno." It seems though you are suggesting there are only a narrowly defined opinions that are acceptable to hold and that deviations outside of those are so heretical that should not be allowed to exist.
    - Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
      Were you getting banned site-wide for expressing those opinions? Or just banned from specific subs? Only admins can ban you site-wide or shadowban you, and I can't imagine expressing any of those opinions being worthy of a site-wide ban from an admin unless you expressed them in an offensive way. ie, for the first opinion, using a slur when referring to the Chinese lab workers, or basically in any way accusing them of poor standards because they're Chinese. Likewise, for the third opinion, I've too often seen transphobia get disguised as concern trolling. If it's moderators banning you from specific subs...well...that's just shitty moderators. Some of them are extremely power-hungry and ban happy, but they're not employees of reddit, and their actions should not be reflected on reddit as a whole.