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[–]Mcheetah 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I got banned a week ago on some complete bullshit and they locked my sub, /r/random_shit, which was mostly shitposts, memes, and the occasional rant. They went back exactly six months to pick some dumb bullshit and flagged 15 different innocuous things as "hate against a protected class." Total made-up whiny progressive bullshit reasons on posts I made like "why SJWs always project" and memes from the show The Boondocks (that the white soyjaks that make up the mods on there probably have never seen before or understand.) https://i.ibb.co/ZHsfR5c/Fuck-Reddit.png

They not only banned my account of nine years (I barely even posted on Reddit; maybe once every ten days), but two alt accounts I hadn't used in years that had my username in it. https://i.ibb.co/kDvvcJ8/Unnecessary-Ban.png For all they know, those accounts might not have even been me that they were banning. It could've been someone else with a similar name. They just had part of my username in them, and they banned those too without even thinking if they were someone else or not.

Seeing this post here, I think they're doing this purge sitewide now, because my "banning" was complete bullshit, though not that unexpected considering the shitstains that run Reddit.

I'd also advise against going to the Reddit alternative GirlsAskGuys, as they did this same shit January 1st, 2023, banning me and hundreds of others on there because they hired a bunch of assholes Musk fired from Twitter to be their admins. That site/app is now the new Reddit but before that, it used to be fun and very much intellectually 'diverse' and politically balanced (conservatives, independents, and sane liberals on there.) Now, GirlsAskGuys is Reddit 2.0.

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

Clear proof Reddit is doing user IP tracing as part of their corporate surveillance.

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

They definitely do that. They will re-ban you if they can fingerprint you (eg. IP address) as a previously banned account.

They even gave us a warning a couple months ago about not re-adding admins under alt accounts who were previously banned. So it's not exactly a secret.

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

Its really weird because I got permabanned from Reddit once, so then I started VPNing from a new account, different country and the Brave browser, and I got permabanned again for something different and really stupid. I contested it, they lifted my ban from my new alt account via VPN, which also somehow lifted my first ban and now I shit post on Reddit freely without a VPN.