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Please share your stories/screenshots of being banned from Reddit and/or Subreddits, as well as other social media platforms.

If you still have access to your account, screenshots of the last “offending” post or comment would be great. https://lemmy.world/c/banhammered

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  • An /r/Conservative post popped up on /r/All announcing that they would be banning anyone who shares a differing opinion, and bullshit like that. At some point in the post it said they didn't know what to call that type of community. So I quoted that bit and said,

    "It's called an echo chamber. You are admitting that this is an echo chamber and is not meant for real discourse or discussion."

    I was banned within 3 minutes.


    I was banned from /r/Gaming for simply giving the exact version number .BIN file to use for PCSX in a thread asking on how to get PCSX working. I don't know how their no link to piracy rule applies, but that's what they used against me. The rest of the comments helping and the post itself should have also been removed and banned though, as they wanted to interpret their rules to mean any discussion of piracy or emulation. Up until the split, I had just been posting with an alt account to get around the ban.


    I was banned (and later reversed) from the entire site just a month before the API bullshit announcement for making a joke about punching Nazis on a thread that was a joke about punching Nazis. I wasn't the only one, either. That entire thread got absolutely nuked by some pissed off Nazi admin. It took a week of spamming appeals before it was overturned by an admin who actually can understand context.


    I was banned from... Uh... I forget the exact name of the subreddit. It was one of the Feminism subs, but it was consistently full of misandrists not actual feminists. I pointed out their hypocrisy on a thread and was promptly banned.


    I was banned from /r/furry_irl for posting a trans related joke on a trans related post. The joke came directly from my sister, who is herself trans and heard the joke in her trans support group. The mods simply went "oh he's pulling the 'but I have black friends' bullshit" and then disabled me from even communicating with the mod team, labeling me a transphobe.

  • I get banned from Facebook groups all the time for dumb reasons. Facebook group mods and admins have a God complex or something.

  • r/ich_iel (German, superior Version of r/me_irl) once raided r/funny.

    Yeah, I fell in that war.

  • I got permabanned for "report abuse".

    I was reporting a series of blatantly obvious spam bot accounts like I normally do. Nothing fundamentally changed about my behavior. I had warnings in the past for "brigading" because I got into a row with some power tripping mods once, and I guess that was enough to get the permanent hammer. Reddit just had enough of me messing with their free content stream.

    Filed an appeal. Never, ever got a response, not even an denial message. Lmfao.

  • I was shadow banned from r/soccer a few months ago and I still don't know why. To be fair, I didn't even try to contact the mods about it, that sub is awfully toxic anyway.

  • Not me, but someone on r/TrashTaste got permanently banned from Reddit for posting a tweet.

    For context, Trash Taste is a podcast run by anime YouTubers. They had Chris Broad (a.k.a. Abroad in Japan) as a guest and it's safe to say, they're very friendly with each other so of course they'd share content involving and about Chris there. Someone decided to share Chris' frustrated tweet about North Korea throwing missiles in Japanese waters, jokingly suggesting that the Japanese military get some "Patriot missiles" (which I've been told are purely defensive). For the record, this isn't the first time NK has done this, and it's not the first time Chris has been openly frustrated at it.

    This ban is ridiculous - it's not like someone is actually being threatened. It's just some grumpy British man living in Japan venting his frustrations over a dictatorship trying to bomb the country he's living in.

    The tweet, and the ban image I found, are below.

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