News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $4.5B from $10B by time0ut on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:19AM (#36534339)
Yup, deleted my account, found an alternative for the one community I participated in, and try not click on links to reddit. It was easy as my primary way of interacting with reddit was apollo...
Re:Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $4.5B from $10B by 128bytes on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:38AM (#36534679)
I don't even need to delete my account, I'd be suprised if I didn't get resuspended eventually for like the 16th time at some point this month either when they find out I'm still ban evading or when I inevitably say something the moderation doesn't like again
Re:Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $4.5B from $10B by leovander on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:14AM (#36535306)
What are you saying in your comments if you are being suspensed/banned that many times? Time for a little self reflection?
Re:Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $4.5B from $10B by 128bytes on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:11AM (#36536304)
One time a guy said disabled people should kill themselves for the good of the gene pool so I told him eugenicists should be publicly flogged and I got banned for inciting violence, and then I got IP banned when I told the moderator there's no point banning me because it's trivial for me to just use another account (in more colorful language). I'm also pretty homophobic & transphobic so I've caught a number of bans for that sort of thing before. My current account is on 1 warning atm cus I said something about feminism, I don't recall what it was.

I'm not sure why you would think being banned should prompt self-reflection? It's not like any of my reasons for believing the things I do has changed, and it's not like being banned from Reddit really has any negative consequences for me.

Re:Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $4.5B from $10B by LexiMax on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:51AM (#36537173)
Getting banned 16 times from a social space is a pretty clear message that you're not welcome. Equivalent behavior in meatspace would likely get you trespassed from the property or arrested.
Re:Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $4.5B from $10B by 128bytes on Friday June 30, 2023 @01:08PM (#36538553)
I'm not really interested in whether or not I'm welcome.
Re:Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $4.5B from $10B by tacocataco on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:10PM (#36537548)
I've been shadow banned several times for linking subreddits relevant to the discussion more then once in a comment section. So I started only sharing it once.

I've also been shadow banned for sharing large lists of on topic youtube links.

I believe I am running into some sort of spam prevention system, even though I see other users posting similar content. So my theory is that there is some sort of whitelist for this activity (i changed my username often when i used reddit), or I am running afoul with a certain moderator or admin.

Hard to tell when you're not even banned so there isn't a reason given to me. Wonderful system.

Back to imgur's user-sub I guess. Also I appreciate yall having me here as well.

Re:Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $4.5B from $10B by flutas on Friday June 30, 2023 @12:20PM (#36537736)
Reddit is very heavy handed with bans as of late.

I got IP banned across my older unused accounts, and my newer ones for mass editing, then deleting my comments to a message that was basically "reddit killed itself due to this API change".