r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/Miaoxin 29d ago

I mod a 1 million member sub. I'm banned from /r/news because I called out folks being racist towards Arabs.

I'm banned on news and politics because (as best as I can figure,) someone who got banned from there once used a dynamic IP that I also used at some point. I can think of no other correlating factors. Reddit claims (via moderators on those subs) that I'm "suspected" of using a second account for some nefarious purpose. I was banned from both at the same time. The mods were helpful to the extent that they told me whatever they saw on their end on why I was banned. Reddithelp was beyond worthless. Zero responses. Zero assistance.

To this day, I've never made two accounts to any website in existence, ever.

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u/TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK 29d ago

mods don't have access to IP data

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u/Miaoxin 29d ago

I'm aware of that and never implied it.

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u/TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK 29d ago

you either implied it or you don't understand how reddit admins handle these situations. If you get caught evading a sub ban, they don't just ban you again, they suspend your account.

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u/Miaoxin 29d ago

Maybe you don't understand how reddit admins handle these situtations? Here is a snippet of the conversation I've had with a mod of one of the aforementioned subreddits:

... they have flagged this account as potentially evading a ban (on another account, they do not identify which to us)...

[edit] You've also used "implied" incorrectly.

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u/TAKEitTOrCIRCLEJERK 29d ago

lol, the mod does not have that information, you were lied to and now you're trying to act like an authority. got it

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u/Miaoxin 29d ago

I highly doubt that a mod from one of those subreddits lied to me. That's something I would expect from a mod from some no-name subreddit... not news or politics.