On Reddit, you can get banned from some subreddits simply because you have posted in another completely different sub (regardless of the content of the post).
It's not even always politics, although that's certainly a major driving force. But then you have really stupid fights like two subs about the same topic banning each others' members.
Everybody here is strangers online, so I think grains of salt are reasonable all around. That said, I'm not sure that people-who-were-banned deserve above average scrutiny. Anecdotally, a lot of the RubyGems maintainers were banned a week ago. It seems really unfair to distrust people _just_ because a person-in-control banned them.
Oof, I'm outside my edit window and didn't make my correct point. It's when people say "I was banned from _____ for _____". When people say "for _____" I take their word with a huge grain of salt.
Ah I see, you’re saying it’s very hard/impossible to verify the reason for the ban, so the given reason is especially low-signal. That actually does make sense to me, thanks for clarifying
The problem (?) with Reddit is that the users themselves have a lot more control over bans than on other social media where it is the platform themselves that do the banning. This makes bans much more arbitrary even than on Facebook and et al.
It's fine, but the voting system basically makes Reddit not a place for any kind of serious discussion. Which is also fine if you don't waste time expecting more from it.
Reddit (both admins and many subreddit moderators) are extremely trigger happy with bans. Plenty of reasonable people get banned by capricious Reddit mods.
That's the funny thing about reddit. You can get banned trivially on a whim of a mod. I've been banned from multiple subreddits that I've never been to. Simply because I posted on another subreddit and that mod found detestable.
My favourite. I'm trans/autistic. I was posting on r/autism being helpful. OP never mentioned their pronouns, just that they have a obgyn and feminine problems. I replied being helpful. but I misgendered them and they flipped out. Permabanned me from r/asktransgender, even though i never posted on it. Then left me a pretty hateful reply on r/autism. Reddit admins give me a warning for hate toward trans people. Despite me never doing any such thing and being one.
Right about the same time r/askreddit had a thread about it being hard not to misgender trans. So i linked this thread, linking an imgur of the reddit admin warning. I went to like 30,000 upvotes. r/autism mods had to reply saying they dont see any hate in my post and that people should stop reporting it.
I was banned because I was simply in a covid sub debating with the covid-deniers. The "powers-that-be" mods literally banned anyone on that particular sub from popular subs, some of which I hadn't even been in, ever. There was (is?) a cabal of mods on there that run the most popular subs like pics/memes/etc that definitely are power hungry basement dwellers that must not have a life.
Eh, I was banned from several major subreddits for simply posting in a conversative subreddit, even though my post was against the conservative sentiment.
Same, happened to me after replying to a comment in the JRE sub, I think I was calling something / someone dumb. Coincidentally, that sub is openly against him now.
Tried clarifying this in another comment, my point was more that people who say "I was banned from X for doing something innocuous" are often not telling the whole truth.
