I had a nasty habit to argue with subreddit mods after being banned for mild violations. Obviously that would only happen when the penalty had been inadequate, otherwise I would keep my mouth shut.
It happened two times, at first I was banned for a week on the whole platform. Second time, I was permanently banned from reddit.
Mind you, these two were the only occasions I was banned from reddit per se. I would naturally receive bans on various subreddit for reasons, but never from the entire website.
Funny how the most powerful people on reddit are also most fragile and best protected by the admins.
i've been a mod in one pretty large and active online community and somehow power has never gotten into my head, but i've seen so many completely trip out over the smallest non-issues, fucking bizarre
Loved when I got banned for a few days because I answered something in a subreddit that apparently didn’t allow “opinion based answers”. I don’t even remember what the actual question was but it was something like “How do you think the pyramids were made”?
Just take the question down instead of banning people for answering. There is no non-opinion based answer to questions like that. Some might be more widely accepted than others but that’s about it.
I just replied with “might as well make it a permanent ban cause I’m blocking the sub”. Not gonna even waste my time contributing to communities like that.