I have had multiple accounts through 15 years on reddit but reddit has become hardcore ban happy and I’ve stopped even trying to get around it at this point and have stopped using the site completely.
So what was the dumbest reason you were banned?
Mine was going into a far right sub that was discussing lord of the rings, for some reason lotr is huge with the far right including the current vp. Anyway all I did was post lotr sucks and a video link to clerks 2 where Randall tells Elias and the customer that the movie is nothing but walking and that the true ending should be frodo bricking into Sam’s mouth.
I got reported and site wide permabanned from a far right sub for gay bashing when the intent was anything but that. That’s when I noticed the glory days of reddit were starting to fade.
From a sub: Banned from /r/Gaming for telling someone the specific number for the .BIN file needed for PlayStation emulation on a discussion about emulation.
I didn’t link shit. The user themselves had a list of .BIN files they were looking at and wasn’t sure what they needed. I just told them which one they needed. Banned for piracy. The discussion itself wasn’t locked and they didn’t even remove my comment.
From the whole site: Posted “I concur” on a post of a woman wearing a shirt that said “it is always moral to punch a Nazi.” The whole thread was seemingly used by a Nazi admin as bait, because they kept the main post up while banning every commenter agreeing with it.
It was over-turned after I appealed 3 separate times. But it was when I really started looking for alternatives to Reddit. Not more than a month later, they announced the API changes and someone mentioned Lemmy. Now I am here.