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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by apwell23 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @12:59PM (#44512344)
I was banned from reddit ( not subreddit) like completly banned from all of reddit because i responded to an indian post saying

"why do westerners hate indians, what did we do to them"

with

"maybe precieved as online scammers and also mass immigration into high paying jobs"

Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by regularjack on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @03:54PM (#44514161)
Your ban was deserved
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by apwell23 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:55PM (#44514654)
why is that ? btw i am indian too. It was in /r/askindians
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by arp242 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @09:15PM (#44516314)
The "perceived as" could be interpreted as a genuine "perhaps this is what they think?" or just as "empty language", in which case you're effectively saying "they're all scammers and mass migrating here to steal our jobs". I'll assume you meant the first, but with loads of flagged comments in the queue and many people who do genuinely mean that sort of thing, it's easy for moderators to misinterpret things.

I once called out a blatantly racist post and used "the n-word" while doing so. Admittedly not my finest moment, but I was fed up (the content was something along the lines of "I think this is called ethnic cleaning. Why don't you just admit they're all n----s to you?")

I got banned for my "racism". For calling out racism. The racist post that called for ethnic cleaning was left standing as that was lengthy and used polite language.

For the hasty moderator with tons of flagged comments: one is a wall of text and scans okay, the other used a bad word so could perhaps be racist. 537 more flagged comments in the queue. Ban. Next. It is what it is.

Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by apwell23 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @09:20PM (#44516333)
yea that makes sense. btw, i appealed the ban and they reviewed it again and ban stands.

Never went back to reddit again. even blocked it on /etc/hosts

I am not sure about why comment here was flagged and ppl saying "you deserve ban". So I guess everyone is assuming "empty language" .

Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by arp242 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @10:16PM (#44516576)
> I am not sure about why comment here was flagged and ppl saying "you deserve ban". So I guess everyone is assuming "empty language" .

Yes, without the clarification of "i am indian too. It was in /r/askindians", it looked kind of racist here too. On these types of topics, you do need to spend a little bit of effort making sure your intent is communicated clearly, because for every well-intentioned person there's another actual racist troll.

Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by saagarjha on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @10:05PM (#44516520)
Yes. If you don't want to be perceived that way, prefix your comment with clarification that it's not actually your opinion.
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by apwell23 on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @10:25PM (#44516625)
even if its not my opinion. Is it really something Reddit should permanently ban me for?
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by saagarjha on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @10:37PM (#44516685)
The point is that they did think it was your opinion.
Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by apwell23 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @10:34PM (#44527926)
Thats just crazy to me though. meanwhile youtube allows this kind of stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZlPv1Od6wk