this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2025
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Bye Reddit

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I've been reading a lot of comments lately about people getting banned for really mundane things. Some as much as upvoting a comment.

My 11 year old reddit account got banned. I still don't know exactly what I said but I believe it was for talking about the US invading Canada and how we Canadians would fight back.

I think the funniest thing was getting banned from r/politics for posting two lines from the lyrics of Kidnap the Sandy Claws - a song from a kids movie Nightmare Before Christmas. A KIDS MOVIE!

"Kidnap the Sandy Claws, throw him in a box. Bury him for ninety years, then see if he talks"

I don't even remember the context of posting it, but it was about Santa Claus. You know, a fictional character.

Pathetic.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 31 minutes ago

I still do not know why I was banned. I just got some generic "broke reddit TOS". When I appealed asking what rule I broke and promised to not break it again they instantly denied the appeal with no further explanation.

Fuck em.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Suggesting anyone wearing one of Kanye’s new swastika shirts, be punched immediately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 34 minutes ago

It is always, and I mean ALWAYS morally correct to punch a nazi

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I called malaria trump a whore.

Like, she fucked a decrepit orange ogre for money.

Edit, lol, malaria. Keeping that. Fitting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Malaria. Love it. I'm going to use this because I can never remember her name.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

On a post about a local company not wanting to serve LGBT folks... i said, vote with your wallets. Let the free market decide their fate. Apparently anything short of wanting to burn the place to the ground is considered bigotry.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I got banned for saying drumpf needs to be assassinated.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Weeeeeeell ... I upvoted you because I can't disagree, but this one is technically bannable. In the USA it is illegal to vocalize harm to the US president. One of the few real exceptions to free speech. It is also illegal to cause a panic, like yelling "Fire!" in a crowded area when there in no fire, to cause a panic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Haven't been banned, but the bastards did make the reddit Boost app useless about a week ago. I switched to RedReader, but I don't like the app as much, so I don't stay on it as long now. Been using Lemmy a lot more.

[–] BrightFadedDog 6 points 14 hours ago

Someone else posted that they wanted to fire Bezos off in a rocket never to return. I replied that it would be more appropriate to float him down the Amazon. My comment (and only mine) was banned for "inciting violence".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I stopped keeping track I also haven't logged in for almost two years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Shit, when did they take away Apollo? 2-3 years ago now? That’s when I permanently fucked off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Almost two years ago. June 2023. The day they announced their fuckery was the last day I logged on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 17 hours ago

I got banned more than once for literally symmetrically repeating a comment calling to violence, inverted. The original comment's author wouldn't get banned, I would. Right of Sunnis to genocide everyone else in the Middle-East is protected, but not right of anyone else to genocide Sunnis, for example. Turkish nationalists are just as protected as Sunnis. Also a few emotional comments about people sticking their nose where they shouldn't and the reaction to that not being protest got me banned. All kinda political.

Also a few comments which were not specific enough to get their meaning without participating in a discussion, which nobody did, unlike hitting the report button. Typical Reddit.

Basically it's everything which can be interpreted as calls to violence or support of bigotry, except for approved kinds of violence and bigotry, and these are allowed of all degrees, and I mean all. You get banned for a slur, while someone else casually calls for genocide and doesn't get banned.

TLDR - talking politics in such places is useless and unpleasant.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I just said I wanted to see more CEO blood in the streets. Perfectly harmless sentiment imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Cheaper then eggs down there I hear.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago

Since the Digg Exodus, I've gone through a dozen accounts on Reddit, typically for strongly disagreeing with figures in various administrations. I'm too old anymore to care.

[–] lurch 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

did you just say santa isn't real! 😆

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Maybe that's why I was banned. Spez didn't know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

I said we used to have a method of dealing with traitors