Well now this is trashy. I got permabanned from r/interstingasfuck for posting a comment in r/MensRights that was an attempt to correct some misinformation. I’ve never made a post in either subreddit and that was the only comment I’ve ever made in the MensRights subreddit. But r/interstingasfuck’s bot decided to permaban me even though I’ve not broken any rules.

The ban

The single comment I’ve ever made on r/MensRights

Man Reddit is trash.

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    I got perms banned from a few communities for having two comments in r/ProLife. They got deleted so I don’t remember the context but it was definitely not supporting pro life politics.

    This is why public modlogs on Lemmy are useful.

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    People are now being perma banned from r/pics of all places for merely posting on the Asmongold subreddit. Yes, it’s become something of an anti-woke echo chamber in recent months, but it’s the main subreddit of Twitch’s most popular streamer.

    And now we wondered why 74.7 million Americans voted for Donald Trump last week. Because maybe telling your voters that they’re Nazi scum if they don’t agree with you isn’t a winning strategy, like the world view that most Reddit moderators have.

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      I’ve noticed that a lot of people online are becoming very unhinged. They are looking for fights, placing people on their enemies list if they have the wrong opinion, and just stay online arguing for hours. I don’t know if these are real people, bots from nation states, people arguing with bots, or bots arguing with bots.

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        Yes to all the above, and probably a mix of bots and terminally online people getting involved. Not sure what year everyone started becoming unhinged but I think it was at least mid-2010’s.

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          I think it’s the power of social media. People living in echo chambers. Their minds are turning into perfect crystal. Full of all the right ideas. Full of certainty about what’s right and wrong, real and unreal. Perfect and logical yet constrained to a tiny box. Brittle. Vulnerable to cracking at the smallest shock.

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    Yeah and? That’s reddit for you. You’re now allowed to even speak to them or face the wrath of the mods. Fuck that place

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    If you want to stop it, block /u/safebot , /u/saferbot and /u/safestbot

    Works pretty well.

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    I don’t hate things just for being popular. However, reddit definitely gets worse the more popular it is, and the largest subs are always the worst of the worst.

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    This was going on also during COVID.

    If you say COVID was leaked from the lab in Wuhan you get banned from 10 other subreddits.

    Even though there were multiple academic research suggests that might be the case.

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        it was weird, like literarily they were researching and publishing about SARS like viruses in bats as early as 2015, and yet people got crazy if someone said it might be a leak.

        Here is a paper published in 2015 called “Bat origin of human coronaviruses” by Zhengli Shi ( Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China )

        https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4687304/

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          Reddit logic: suggesting a lab accident automatically makes you racist or anti-science or something.

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        That’s cuz certain groups steer those discussions to a racist place EVERY SINGLE TIME

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          so because somebody did something normal people can’t have a discussion on the topic?

          wtf are you even shilling? limits on free speech because bad faith actors derailing discussion on socials?

          Do you understand that covert domestic or foreign actor could use this as loop hole for censorship of undesirable topics?

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    They do similar shit here got hit with a ban on Midwest.Social for drama on Lemmy.world news and politics subs…

    Some mods have hard time understanding the job and just use the modding to moderate opinions they don’t like lol

    But the way fediverse works this clown behavior has limited impact as subs are not centralized, there is always another place to continue discussion.

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      When people claim they are for freedom of speech they mean the speech they approve of. I’m for banning hatred, racism, personal attacks, threats, and similar but discussions are hard.

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        Bad faith actors should be banned, no dout but current moderation regime appears to be only 50/50 proper admin.

        Mod log feature is fun to review since anyone can review sequence of events and see if the reason makes sense.

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    I’ve gotten multiple bans here for voting “wrong”. Not to say it’s not dumb on reddit, but Lemmy has it’s issues with disproportionate bans, too.

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      Same, I got instance banned for ‘drive by downvoting’ and told to ‘clean up my feed’ because I dared browse all and vote on posts.

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      Yeah Lemmy seems pretty left-wing but at least you can host your own instance if you’re right-wing. I’m on neither side but I try to listen to both. Forcing silence and compliance will only backfire because it’s in human nature to resist.

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        “I try to hear both sides”

        So tell me what right wing America really wants, not just what they say, and we will see how much you actually pay attention.

        I’ll give you a freebie: mass deportation really means rounding them up and putting them in privatized work camps, stripping them of identity and giving them a serial number.

        Your turn.

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          Listen, this topic isn’t about right wing this or let wing that. If you want to argue with someone online then look for ChatGPT to keep you company because I’m not the one. I don’t know why you want to come to this post just to start shit but you may need to take a break from the internet. Also, I’m not a conservative, I just listen to what they say to understand their position instead of letting the media tell me how to think.

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            I don’t need to argue with you. Your silence was my answer. You “understand” them. Which is like saying you understand that insane person screaming gibberish on the side of the street. Do you both sides genocide too? Both sides abortion?

            “Gosh, I know that child got raped, but I understand both sides of aborting a rape-baby.”

            “Gosh, I know they’re rounding up undocumented immigrants and holding them in a privatized work camp, but they really should have to pay off the debt incurred while apprehending and processing them before being allowed to leave. It’s not indentured servitude or slavery, just business!”

            People like you are the ones who choose to do nothing when terrible things happen. You’re just as complicit as the people doing it.

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                Says the person on the internet trying not to look like a right winger because they’re too embarrassed to admit it, but pretty much share all the same views, or just “can see how both sides have good points”

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    This happened to me before, years ago before the Dark Times.

    I don’t recall which sub banned me for posting where, but it’s been a thing for awhile. In my case, I messaged one of the mods of the sub that banned me, explained that I was doing something similar & not a member of that sub, and they unbanned me.

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      You make an excellent point. Years ago you could actually appeal a subreddit ban or even an Admin total ban from reddit. They still have an “appeal” process but it seems like their new policy is once you are banned that’s it. They have no interest in listening to a logical explanation… They are also checking your past posts and comments history. Got banned recently from a group NOT because of anything I posted or commented on but because I had posted something in another group that they didn’t like. Fuck all of them over there.

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    I don’t understand how this isn’t considered brigading.

    This is literally dictating that people of X sub, are not allowed to post in Y sub. So if I have a community there, some other, larger community can essentially threaten the users of my community to not participate…

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    Yeah they’re trash anyway. That subreddit sucks. I’ve seen too many astroturf ads get promoted to like 20k upvotes. Good riddance, I say.

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    Fair amount of subreddits have banbots for shitholes under the, “Starve the beast” idea. r/MensRights is on par with theredpill for shitters. Fix is fairly easy for situations just like yours. Up to you if you want to utilize it though.

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      After the whole API and third-party app ban I was already leaving Reddit. I only comment once a week at most but I stuck around for the fringe subreddits like r/selfhosted. I am done with this corporate social media. It’s all trash, AI, and bots.

      I miss the good ol’ days when the internet was young. Would spend time on the IGN forums, find random Geocities sites, catch a seizure on someone’s MySpace page, or waste an afternoon finding random things using StumbleUpon.