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Went to reddit, made an account so I could chat in the World Cup match threads
Was told I was unable to participate because my account was too new
This message also had a link to message the mods
Click the link, message the mods, explain that I am a human and I'm just here to chat about the World Cup
Mod responds, says my account is brand new, has zero karma, and sees I've not once posted in any other subs
Explain to the mod that I don't really like reddit and that I literally just made my account specifically to talk about the world cup
Got a nasty message back about how the mods don't have time to answer my messages and that if I don't like reddit that's a me problem
I respond explaining that if they don't have time to answer my messages then why is there a link to message them in the alert about being unable to post?
Muted
Refresh reddit. Red banner. My Account has been temporarily banned on reddit for 3 days for harassment
Tried to use reddit once and was banned across the entire site in about 30 minutes
I always heard it was bad, and seeing how many people comment without reading the article always left a bad taste in my mouth but I didn't think it would be that bad if I actually tried to join them
Anyway, that's how I found this place
REDDITS AI moderation looks at new accounts and old inactive accounts as botting potentials thats why, even getting your comments/ post removal is a potential mark on your account as a bot.
That's what I thought
It's not like a bot cares if it has to wait 3 days before posting
And considering the World Cup is something that only lasts a month anyway, out of all the subs to implement a waiting period, that one seems like one of the worst
"Welcome to reddit, in order to post in the World Cup match threads please miss 10 matches"
I love the way everything is harassment to those babies.
Most people here are boycotting it because of how the US has been behaving, both domestic and internationally... Threatening to invade allies, destroying relationships with other countries that go back to the end of WW2 for literally no gain, and the brutalization and illegal imprisonment of brown people in concentration camps, just to name a few things.
Yeah fuck that. Fuck this country and I hope the whole thing is a massive commercial failure.
Anyway, welcome to Lemmy lol
I got banned for "hate" for a comment that said "the nips." Fucking everybody has nipples. It wasn't even sexual.
I would guess it was interpreted as the slur for Japanese people (perhaps an automod thing - never really used Reddit though so I dunno how these things work in practice.)
On an older account I got banned for saying that that Pizza-whatever comic sucks shit
It's always on the front page and it's Garfield level humor except worse because it's mostly just political pandering
And the comments under those comics are always full of people who you know think they're super informed, super intelligent, superior people that, in reality, are just mouth-breathing idiots repeating the most predictable shit and falling for the most tame political propaganda
Like when you have a friend that always talks about how crazy and wild they are and then you go out and party with them and they fall asleep at 10pm after 3 beers
Had an account for around 8 years, during that time I participated in some more and some less heated arguments on reddit. Had multiple local bans, mostly for some mild stuff whereas the harsher comments would usually slip under the mods' radar.
My account has been permanently banned on the entire reddit only after I went into discussion with some mods for some .md-level ridiculous decisions.
Obviously arguing with people with power is an oppression to them.
I'm surprised they didn't just ban you and then immediately mute you, that seems to be the default mod strat on Reddit. Maybe the WC mods are especially argumentative so they don't?
Power-trippy mods love reporting mod messages as harassment though, even when it's just some mild disagreement.
One time I got banned from Sub B (a subreddit I've never posted in) for posting in Sub A, and when I responded to the mod message asking what the ban reason was for since I've never posted in Sub B, they tried to argue some stupid bullshit that I never even said and then clearly reported me for mod harassment even though I barely said anything so I caught a site-wide temp ban, also for 3 days.
And when it comes to 7 day or less site-wide bans, it's a mystery whether the admins even respond to your appeal before the ban runs out on its own. And then you can catch a perma-ban for getting so many temp-bans anyway even when you successfully appeal them, because it automatically escalates to a perma and the admins won't do shit about it.
I lost an account that way because I would post about transphobia that I've faced, it gets false-flagged by bigots trolling trans subs, and I successfully appealed them, but successful appeals clearly don't mean anything anyway other than your ban ending sooner.
!worldcup@lemmy.world
Ah yes, the other fun side of the coin.
The funky catch-22 of more than half the site.
"You dont have enough karma to post in this sub."
"Your post has been removed because your account is too new."
"Your comment was deleted because you dont have the minimum comment karma to participate."
Okay...so how to I get karma to even use the site if even the shitposting subreddit wont let new accounts post? (This was on some roleplay sub where the whole point was connecting with people for text based rp.)
-fun fact karma farming is also against the reddit tos. They barely enforce it, but its technically wrong enough that if they flag you for some reason then they can ban you.
What a shit hole.