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Anyway to fight a local reddit ban?

A few weeks ago i was permanently banned from my local city reddit, probably because of my conservative view of the riot/looting in my city. Actually they never give me a reason in the ban message. I try message back asking the mod for the reason but was ignored. Having losing the ability to ask question in local reddit is a bit of inconvenient, anyway to fight it?
 

badblue

Gold Member
Reddit mods are notoriously bad and will ban you for little to no reason. They want to keep their echo chamber. Either stop posting or make a new account and risk getting banned again.
 

Mr Nash

square pies = communism
Blessing in disguise. Most of Reddit is trash. You're better off not wasting your time there.
 

-Arcadia-

Banned
Yeah. New account. Limit your interaction to asking the questions you need.

Reddit is only slightly better than Reset, and not by much. You are far from the only one to get moderated for no reason, with graveyards of comments and posters attesting to the fact.
 

Nymphae

Banned
Use a throwaway account.

I agree with the general viewpoint that Reddit is a cancerous hellscape, but somehow incredibly based subreddits still pop up all the time like r/consoomproduct and r/therightcantmeme
 
Yah Reddit...

I like it for some pics and gifs maybe but the echo chamber is just too much.

I appreciate 4chans honesty more and more. The UI, not so much.
 

Tesseract

Banned
make your own subreddit with blackjack and hookers
tenor.gif
 

BadBurger

Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
I use to be a mod on a moderately large subreddit (over 200k users last I checked). Unfortunately, the only thing you can do is appeal to the mods themselves. It will go to modmail, which is basically a new thread between yourself and all of the mods. They can discuss it with you, and if one chooses, lift the ban. Reddit admins hardly ever intervene, only in extremely severe circumstances. Each subreddit is its own board, governed by individuals largely unsaddled by the wider site rules and regulations.

And of course you can make a new account. With how little personalization there is (though they're adding more) almost no one remembers anyone else's names. Only the really fanatical users. The other ten or so mods and I use to keep a shared Google spreadsheet just to remember who the commonly problem users were. We barely ever banned anyone, rather gave warnings and tried to guide discussion in more favorable avenues, because what's the point when anyone can just make a new account? But mods of other subreddits are dicks and ban people for even slightly disagreeing with the narrative. /r/conservative and /r/the_donald were definitely the worst offenders. If you weren't a 100% true believing cheerleader you'd get banned with often obscene or curt and banal messages.
 
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Tesseract

Banned
I use to be a mod on a moderately large subreddit (over 200k users last I checked). Unfortunately, the only thing you can do is appeal to the mods themselves. It will go to modmail, which is basically a new thread between yourself and all of the mods. They can discuss it with you, and if one chooses, lift the ban. Reddit admins hardly ever intervene, only in extremely severe circumstances. Each subreddit is its own board, governed by individuals largely unsaddled by the wider site rules and regulations.

And of course you can make a new account. With how little personalization there is (though they're adding more) almost no one remembers anyone else's names. Only the really fanatical users. The other ten or so mods and I use to keep a shared Google spreadsheet just to remember who the commonly problem users were. We barely ever banned anyone, rather gave warnings and tried to guide discussion in more favorable avenues, because what's the point when anyone can just make a new account? But mods of other subreddits are dicks and ban people for even slightly disagreeing with the narrative. /r/conservative and /r/the_donald were definitely the worst offenders. If you weren't a 100% true believing cheerleader you'd get banned with often obscene or curt and banal messages.
take his coat
 

-Arcadia-

Banned
I use to be a mod on a moderately large subreddit (over 200k users last I checked). Unfortunately, the only thing you can do is appeal to the mods themselves. It will go to modmail, which is basically a new thread between yourself and all of the mods. They can discuss it with you, and if one chooses, lift the ban. Reddit admins hardly ever intervene, only in extremely severe circumstances. Each subreddit is its own board, governed by individuals largely unsaddled by the wider site rules and regulations.

And of course you can make a new account. With how little personalization there is (though they're adding more) almost no one remembers anyone else's names. Only the really fanatical users. The other ten or so mods and I use to keep a shared Google spreadsheet just to remember who the commonly problem users were. We barely ever banned anyone, rather gave warnings and tried to guide discussion in more favorable avenues, because what's the point when anyone can just make a new account? But mods of other subreddits are dicks and ban people for even slightly disagreeing with the narrative. /r/conservative and /r/the_donald were definitely the worst offenders. If you weren't a 100% true believing cheerleader you'd get banned with often obscene or curt and banal messages.

This is the most Reddit mod thing ever.
 

BadBurger

Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
This is the most Reddit mod thing ever.

How so? I thought we were rather tame.

By the way, I was also the mod of a conservative subreddit for a while too (the previous one I mentioned wasn't about politics at all). It wasn't very large (30k ish users if I remember). I was their token liberal mod, they liked me because I wasn't an all "dye your hair blue and march in the street" liberal, but rather reasonable and didn't go off on people just because they disagreed with me. Or immediately cast aspersions and assumptions on others, like how unfortunately both ends of the conservative/liberal bellcurve tend to do. We can even see it happen here, especially in the political forum.
 
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Deleted member 740922

Unconfirmed Member
Fuck Reddit anyway, it's a pile of shite. You're better off out of it.
 

AV

We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
Don't use Reddit. The average user IQ is in the single digits.
 
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