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[–]hennaojichan 19 insightful - 4 fun19 insightful - 3 fun20 insightful - 4 fun -  (11 children)

Welcome to Saidit. I think you will come to see that outrageous ban as a mixed blessing. Reddit really does suck now so I hope you'll find this growing community to your liking. There are so many new subs, I can't keep up.

[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 3 fun -  (10 children)

I do. I have come to really like saidit in the short time I've been here. It's got the benefits of a small sub, where I actually recognize the contributors instead of them being rando users and the people are surprisingly intelligent and open to dissenting opinions. You won't say the wrong thing here and get downvoted into oblivion, or banned, like reddit.

Although reddit can't actually ban anyone permanently. As a former reddit mod we had some real issues with problem users because people can just whip out a new name. If they actually IP ban you, you can use a VPN. They can't stop you from being on there and generally they don't care to even try besides making a token effort.

[–]Dragonerne 12 insightful - 5 fun12 insightful - 4 fun13 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

Saidit is better than reddit but the admins here also censor content. s/debatealtright has been taken off the front page because the admins didn't like the content.

[–]againstfemalerights2 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Saidit actually ban many users aswell

[–]Airbus320 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

😡

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

the way they make you not want to make a new name is they make you wait ten mins to post. And in the most important sub, conspiracy, you wait 2 months.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

For some reason my new acct on reddit doesn't have a time limit between comments, I don't know why, but I do run into a lot of subs not letting me post because it's too new/ not enough karma. I haven't been on a whole lot, I find myself enjoying saidit quite a bit. There's suprisingly a lot of like minded people here.

2 months for conspiracy! Holy shit balls, that's crazy.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

true yeah it's not like that for all subs. Just major ones. I guess I don't want to make a new reddit acct if I can't talk right away on major ones. You need karma which leads to feeling pressured to make some pro soyboy comments that get karma.

[–]roguecanine 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

my new acct on reddit doesn't have a time limit between comments

it might be a sign of you being shadow-banned. Log out, use incognito mode and check if your posts/comments are visible.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That was my first thought too but I can see my comments in icognito, have replies from users, and get karma. It's just weird. Maybe they changed it recently.

[–]hennaojichan 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I agree with all the good things you're saying about saidit but it seems that those very characteristics that we like about being here are attracting spam bots and entities that would like to disrupt the situation. For example, today the amount of garbage posts is off the scale. Obviously some people—maybe the same interest groups that screwed up reddit—don't want us to have nice things. I'm confident Magnora7, d3rr, and other hard-working users will find a way to deal with the situation but come what may, I'm staying here. Again welcome and enjoy.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

i welcome bots and shills if it comes with low censorship