How and why did you get banned?

Linked that Bill Hicks standup routine where he encourages marketers to kill themselves. Must have hit too close to home for some loser admin who nuked my account for inciting violence.

I belive they called it "advocating violence"

Multiple reasons really, one of which was telling a guy who wanted to put low IQ people in concentration camps "you first".

Lol I recently had a comment removed from the bogleheads subreddit because some guy was talking about buying a bit more of their usual index fund purchases if the market were to dump 20% in a day. Someone asked how they'd do it and I said "probably just shift a bit from emergency fund and build it back over the next month or two."

Cue the True Bogleheads ripping me for suggesting "timing the market." I said "this is, of course, fine." And they went nuclear. That comment got removed and I replied to the mod with "You got your head pretty far up your bogle there, bud." That got me a 3 day full reddit ban. Worth it.

For the uninitiated, bogleheads are basically just adherents to a popular passive investing philosophy. I agree completely with it, but it was hilarious to me how dogmatic - borderline religious - they were about "timing the market" with zero nuance or recognition that it's just not that serious.

I got banned from a bunch of subreddits by making one comment in Asmingold...and it was a comment against. Then got sent this pm saying if you delete your comment and apologize we will reconsider you. I told em to fuck off I'll speak how I like. Censorship is censorship. Wasn't long before I deleted all my posts and comments on by one manually and killed off my 14 year old account.

Remember when Elon Musk had that black eye and said his son punched him? I said "can't blame him". Which is, of course, glorifying violence.

I got banned from a subreddit because the mod had this "not with us, you are against us"argument. It was years ago, but IIRC I was posting against a comment calling for assaulting men to balance out the abuse of women.

To be honest, I think I may have seen more banning on Lemmy though. I've noticed a few cases where the admins have banned people with objectionable opinions. In all fairness, these were the type people you would avoid at parties, but it does give me pause. In reddit if you get banned from a particular subreddit you still keep your identity and participate in other subreddits. In Lemmy, you are at the mercy of your server, and if a large server bans you, it would essentially remove you from all of their communities that otherwise might accept you. I worry that this is creating an echo chamber.

On a video of an ICE agent, jumping out of his civilian vehicle and pointing an automatic weapon At some people, I simply suggested that it would be hilarious if someone jumped in his car and drove it away. He left the driver door wide open, and I seriously doubt he took his keys with him. I just thought it would be funny to see him react to that. It wasn’t a permaban, but it was enough to get me to jump ship.

For posting a video that I didn't post.

I blocked all the tattler bots and a bunch of the witch hunters on AHS. Then I spoke my right leaning mind. Shortly after made a bunch of pro-Luigi jokes.

Calling for Elon Musk to get burned by the Canadian government for subsidy fraud. They took me literally, instead of recognizing the term for when a government disavows, or cuts all ties with a person or business, is called getting "burned".

I didn't. I left of my own accord.

I got banned for repeatedly tagging a global warming denier in posts about climate change

Someone asked if a prisoner being resuscitated has finished serving their life sentence, I said you have to be irrevocably dead, admins said that promotes violence.

"Report button abuse" for reporting too many blatant ads as spam.

It happened right around the same time as the API fiasco, so I didn't give two flying fucks. I was leaving anyway.

A posted a meme in r/conservative that featured the home addresses of prominent conservative talking heads in a thread about how the left can't meme.

I got banned for telling conservatives to go fuck themselves too intensely.

Told some tankie Russian apologist to 'go suck your brother's dick again'. Boom. All accounts banned. I guess I hit too close to the mark.

I got "VPN banned" despite not using a VPN lmao

Granted I haden't used the service since the API changes anyway, so no loss there, but I did get a pretty big chuckle when i finally found that out.

I left when they killed Apollo and third party apps altogether. The only way I viewed Reddit was through that app, so Reddit was dead to me at that point. I used a tool that edited all of my old comments, deleted my 10-year-old+ account and left forever.

Permanently Banned for inciting violence.

I said the Trump government was going to put LGBT people in camps and this was a bad thing.

I got banned from /r/WorldNews and /r/ukpolitics for saying that "from the river to the sea" isn't antisemitic. It was in the early days post Oct 7th when reddit was virulently pro-Israel; I don't think they'd do the same nowadays.

I didn't leave immediately but thinking about it again really pissed me off as I'd been a regular commenter without much issue for years. It genuinely left me feeling quite depressed thinking about how little I mattered to them. When you get banned there's always some shit about how you should ask if you don't understand the ban, but one sub never replied, the other went further and told me to stop messaging their mods (I did so once a week when I wasn't receiving replies, to not spam them) so that was meaningless.

The irony is that here I'm usually getting downvoted for being insufficiently anti-Israel.

Then you get also permabanned from a lot of lemmy instances for thought crime ?

My only site ban (which I got overturned eventually) was from commenting in agreement with a post of a woman wearing a shirt that said "Punch a Nazi." It was shortly after that, that I came here and haven't looked at Reddit since.

I drifted away when they banned Opie and Anthony and cumtown subs.

My lil shitposter heart died a bit but it was for the best. 196 and Lemmy shitpost have their moments

Said some Taliban in a video deserved death. About that dispassionately too.

My account got suspended and I had no posts on the account. Stuff like this is why I use alternative sites instead of big tech sites.

Similar to CommieKender, it left my phone when RiF died. I have it on my desktop but I never comment ot post, and obviously I and all my coworkers browse at work during desk rotations.

R/interestingasfuck mod power tripped and banned me for "ban evasion" (I only had one account) then later I remade my account with a different username because the old one was cringe and accidentally left a comment there from r/all
instantly banned sitewide permanently and the appeal got denied.

just moved over to Lemmy. Fun fact, around now 1 year ago is when I moved (though I changed accounts since then) so around now is my cake day :)

Warned after upvoting "violent" comments apparently. What they were? I haven't a clue.

I honestly don't know. It was a relatively clean account. Then my friend, who is a redditor by heart, got banned. It looks like he was banned just because he was associated with me. And now, if we make new accounts, they get instantly deleted. I don't care because I moved to Lemmy a "long" time ago. But my friend is heartbroken.

Every time I think it was a long vague stretch to fit whatever rule they told me I broke.

Someone said the brazen bull probably wasn't a real thing and I suggested trying it out on child molesters if they wanted to see if it would actually work or not. Reddit mods hate when you suggest that child molesters deserve to suffer for some reason....