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Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best (arstechnica.com)

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ooooh yes. Something similar happened to me out of the blue back in January. I commented, verbatim:

Random fact that I recently learned and thought was kind of cool. One of the very first responses of your body when you get a cut or infection is to synthesize hydrogen peroxide in the area that signals your white blood cells to rally to that area.

I then linked to Science Daily and Harvard articles about it.

Temporary ban for "Harassment," citing this comment.

Later on I incurred another infraction and my account was permabanned, citing my previous strike as justification for the permanent ban. Smfh. 250 characters to appeal...

Meanwhile these idiots excused cesspools like The_Donald for years. Meanwhile I report a person being objectively racist (Calling them "out of control" and "absolutely feral savages") and... They reviewed it not once but twice and found nothing wrong. LOL.

I wrote this all up in a medium article in more detail but I'm half-tempted to send all my screenshots to Fidelity and some news outlets for shits.

[–] 99nights@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow. I've had other ridiculous bans in the past too.

Best one was banned for sexual harassment and being 'toxic'.

It was back when u/theawkwardturtle was blowing up a storm and some feminist banned me for the word 'ok' because she said anyone who would oppose me and awkwardturtle by commenting are going to get a permanent ban and a harassment violation from reddit.

Next mine I was banned from that sub and I got a temp ban from reddit for the word 'ok' lmao.

Tried to appeal for the hell of it months later and the mod denied me instantly and said what i done was atrocious and I deserve my ban, called me a horrible human being and said I was a sexualising predator etc.

I've always hated reddit mods but man I'm glad I'm not that active on that sespool of hate anymore.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Somehow I missed all that controversy. Looking it up now, wow what a shit-show. Just to clarify for anyone else reading this, it was the user AwkwardTheTurtle not theawkwardturtle.

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I was permanently banned from r/militaryporn for pointing out that MRAP was the name of a family of vehicles and not of a single particular one. Some former marine took strange emotional offense at this and spewed a lot of personal insults at me as I linked details a few times to the history of the program. The person commenting at me got extremely vile and an uncalled for, while also being confidently wrong. I just linked facts and didn’t insult in response.

Then I was perma banned. Tis a silly place.