Yet another trivial example of reddit being ass

submitted by IMissPorn from self.MeanwhileOnReddit

So a few days ago, the creator of the popular game Terraria had his reddit account permabanned with no specific reason given, and his appeal was promptly rejected, again with no explanation.

Being a minor internet celebrity, he was able to get it restored by complaining on twitter, but it just goes to show how ridiculous and capricious reddit is with bans.

Edit: Here's the twitter thread where he "appealed" his unfair ban. It's kind of satisfying to see someone tell reddit off like that, even though that kind of justice isn't available to us normal folks.

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[–]LordoftheFlies 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There's really only three possible reasons for that to have happened.

1) One of Reddit's mods tried to get their ego stroked, and was either shut down or didn't get noticed to begin with.

2) He expressed, either directly or in passing, a political opinion (or something taken as such) that went against the narrative.

3) He expressed, either directly or in passing, an opinion (or something taken as such) that wasn't a gushing endorsement of troonery.

Any one of those three would be enough to have a butthurt mod running off to the admins with tearful complaints about the "bigot."

[–]NuclearBadger 8 insightful - 7 fun8 insightful - 6 fun9 insightful - 7 fun -  (0 children)

It was probably because you can choose male or female in terraria.

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

It's not as bad as Discord. They openly admit to not accepting appeals. If you try Clyde will reject it automatically. Reddit at least has a human most of the time, and they'll usually accept it unless you're a high-profile dissident like I was. At least they used to, I haven't bothered with reddit for over two years now.

[–]brimshae 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I haven't bothered with reddit for over two years now.

Feels good, doesn't it?

[–]Vulptex 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Not really actually, but only because it's where all the people are.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Reddit is looking dead these days. The number of comments also do not support the number of upvotes on most front page posts being organic. It has the same problem Twitter does, there's so many convincing bots, a much smaller amount of people are given the illusion of a large audience.

[–]brimshae 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Are the posters actual people, though? I know a couple of people who run bot farms to sell off accounts with heavily manipulated karma, and I'm sure there's more.

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

You can tell it's a bot when everything it says is an unintelligible word salad, or it only copies from other people.

[–]EternalSunset 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The humans you are talking about usually just rubber stamp the ban from the trannymins anyway.

[–]EternalSunset 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

NatSec guys who tell Big Tech who to ban must be trolling him or something xD

[–]exlib 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Just Stop interacting with reddit and let it rot.