My Reddit Account got banned for the dumbest reason.

You probably got banned because you referred to it as being from "The Office", when it's originally from "SNL"

Reddit, you ignorant slut

I wouldn't use that kind of insider joke on a social media. Chances are that at most 10% get it. The rest will be rightfully offended.

It's similar to facebook or twitter at this point. You can get suspended for the most silly things, appeal it and they're "NO we reviewed it and you are VERY bad" and meanwhile, someone can threaten to murder you and you report it, and they're "we reviewed it and this was perfectly super cool, sorry".

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So this was actually the second infraction on that account? And even if "ignorant slut" is a reference to something it seems like pretty strong language to me, especially if it's an escalation from zero.

I remember getting banned off a subreddit simply because I subscribed to another subreddit that they didn't approve of lol. When I tried to appeal, even un-subscribing from the other sub, they perma-banned me from the subreddit with no response. Good riddance.

I was once suspended for making a dumb dick joke, something like “that guy must be hung” (it made sense in context, stupid sense, but sense nonetheless). This was reported as a threat of violence or whatever. I appealed, explaining that I wasn’t wishing anyone to be hanged, merely suggesting that they must have a large penis and got my account back.

Meanwhile racist dogwhistles and rampant transphobia abound with little consequence.

The admins are probably ignorant sluts, I guess.

It seems like Reddit decided to look for any excuse to ban anyone talking negatively about their API changes or talking about Lemmy.

I was banned in one alt from a sub for ban evasion on a sub I was accidentally banned a few minutes from. I didn’t notice and posted from my main. All accounts were instantly permabanned. I don’t think it was a coincidence it was like 2 days after I dared to question spez in his AMA.

Had a 10 year old account get banned for something minor....which I appealed and got restored. But it left me to realize there are no actual rules on reddit....just a collection of echo chambers. I deleted all comments and the account itself shortly after. It's been sad watching Reddit die.

Are you sure that's what you got banned for? Like, did you get a message saying that's why? I've literally never heard of someone getting site banned for mild name calling.

The OG line is "Jane, you ignorant slut." from Saturday Night Live in the 70s.

But then most people online aren't old enough to remember that...

https://youtu.be/c91XUyg9iWM

called someone a cunt on fb. bots kicked me in 2 seconds. 30 days for harassment. my 3 months on Tw ended for less. disposable, all of it

Yeah, I strongly suspect large numbers of trolls are making very, very heavy use of the reporting features.

I've been on Reddit for like 12 years and I was never banned by an admin. The fact that you got banned twice is sus.

I did get banned from blackpeopletwitter for being white.

Sounds like you hit the wrong mod the wrong way at the wrong time. It's Reddit, baby!

I remember I called something "Really Stupid" in response to something someone else said that was really stupid, and I was banned for using an ablest slur.

eh, it's reddit so who cares? dying platform is dying

I was permanently banned site wide for politely suggesting to not allow cosplay posts (that always market onlyfans) in r/gaming, as it was flodded by softcore porn. Often times not even cosplays from games.....site wide ban with no warnings in the past....I promote my stuff on reddit and it was taken away for something miniscule like voicing my opinion.

Almost the same reason I got banned as well.

The administration of that site is as context-illiterate as most of the userbase. They don't get that an expression like "ignorant slut" changes meaning depending on context, and that in your case you were drawing a reference to pop culture.

That can be used both ways, by the way. When I still had Reddit accounts, you have no idea on how much I capitalised on that context illiteracy to insult other users. Things like:

• "An actual human being, unlike you, would quickly understand this."
• "I understand that the concept of intellectual honesty might be a bit too complex for something like you to grasp, but you can always try it."
• "Contrariwise to what you thought through your whole life, thinking doesn't hurt."
• Heavily implying that the user is a pig or barn animal.
• Heavy usage of "it" towards users behaving in a specially irrational (obtuse, assumptive, wishful thinking) way.

Can you guess how many bans I got out of that? Zero. The only time that I got a site-wide ban was for telling a Nazi something like "if you like your daddy Hitler so much then shoot yourself like it did".

I started making a particular point about UFOs and started getting site-wide bans. They started as short suspensions but I was soon banned for good.

The point about UFOs is this: the claim that these UFOs are a hoax, is the biggest and most outlandish conspiracy theory ever:

• a group of people
• spanning continents and millennia
• ranging from heads of state to rural farmers, centenarians to children, stoners to navy admirals
• have coordinated to give the impression that aliens are visiting this planet
• they coordinate their stories
• they produce fake footage
• they sneak into fields and dismember cows using lasers
• they write books
• they give award-winning performances and maintain their lies for decades
• they have never leaked a single document explaining their desire to hoax
• they coordinate this conspiracy without producing a shred of evidence
• there are no photoshop files, no movie clips in half edited state, no 3D models of alien ships
• because it’s the most effective conspiracy of all time
• to produce the overwhelming impression that aliens are visiting
• and the do it for attention
• they