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What was the dumbest reason you got banned from reddit?

I have had multiple accounts through 15 years on reddit but reddit has become hardcore ban happy and I've stopped even trying to get around it at this point and have stopped using the site completely.

So what was the dumbest reason you were banned?

Mine was going into a far right sub that was discussing lord of the rings, for some reason lotr is huge with the far right including the current vp. Anyway all I did was post lotr sucks and a video link to clerks 2 where Randall tells Elias and the customer that the movie is nothing but walking and that the true ending should be frodo bricking into Sam's mouth.

I got reported and site wide permabanned from a far right sub for gay bashing when the intent was anything but that. That's when I noticed the glory days of reddit were starting to fade.

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For the life of me I can't remember where this happened, but this was in one of the heavily moderated "safe space" subreddits.
I said something sarcastic, which some powermod interpreted as being against the rules. I didn't think it was, even if it had been taken at face value.
Problem was, I was in middle of dealing with what I now think was a mental health episode of some description so I ended up arguing with the mod in PMs. Wasn't fruitful, dude was also rude as hell because I asked them to chill.
When things looked up a few days later I was like "yeah, screw them". Left that community. Left Reddit entirely for a month.
I now realise this is one of those moments that turned me away from socialising in general. There are dipshits out there who just don't care.
(Not saying heavily moderated safe space communities are bad! Just maybe not have uncaring career dipshits moderating them. Maybe have clear rules and enforce them consistently.)

I posted a in a r/cocaine a sub I contributed to a lot , and someone commented to which I replied asking for clarification of what 3.5 meant, grams, ounces… I mean we are a worldwide system with different metrics. The bastards banned me. For like a year. The weird thing was that one day I saw my profile avatar had changed and I got a message to sign up. So I did with the same email address and things were great. I comment on a post and got banned for life. This lead me here. This is my first interaction.

for reporting in r/techonology, "you overreported, so its abuse" this was at the beginning when trump and elon were beginning all of thier doge cuts. we are banning you for 7 days, this also triggered a full sitewide ban on all my other accounts in FEB. AND many of these range from 5-10+years old acct.
and then recently as 1-2months ago my only account had a comment removal by a mod, then apparently shadowbanned after they forced a password change, when i decided to log in my account from firefox fork.
and then we found out from other sites and forums that reddit is banning indiscriminately so there will be less users on the site, that way its easier to manage, and force a read-only site.
- Why I stopped giving them views completely

Apparently one cannot say anything about US citizens that the bots don’t like.

Being openly critical of Elon Musk.
- funny thing is musk is the reason why they started purging so aggressively, first in JAN when he complained to spez, and then recently like april too.
  of course and the other issue, is reddit is also reducing user numbers so that it will be more attractive to advertisements. and of course allow AI to scrape the site for data too.

I got banned for the telling a teenage OP in /r/sex that her yeast infection was probably caused by her boyfriend's dirty fingers. I told her to emphasize cleanliness and hygiene ahead of future encounters. She said she couldn't ask her parents for sexual advice and also couldn't consult a doctor, so I tried to give her immediately useful advice
I was banned for "encouraging sex acts with a minor" but not before a bunch of people called me rude names for "imagining her sexual encounter with her boyfriend"
- Jesus Christ
  
  Yeah... People lose their goddamn minds over minors and sex, like they were never minors themselves 🙄😮‍💨

I said "bad bot" to a nazi apologist
Apparently that was "violent speech"
- I'm amazed reddit even has users left. Wtf is going on over there? 10 years ago that would have been one of most upvotes coments
  
  It had a lot of up votes
  The reality is that unless Digg really succeeds, there's just no competition

No reason at all during the great purge following Trump's inauguration
I was told that I had harassed a mod, but I hadn't interacted with anyone
Seems to me that they just purged large numbers of users with anti-Trump content on their account
I was on reddit for nearly 10 years without issue, suddenly I was sitewide banned and every attempt at an appeal went completely unanswered
- thats when they started purging, and i people on reddit noticed a huge drop in noise in the political subs, it was right around eleciton and after it. by the time feburary was around we were part of the 3rd ban wave. also thier shadowbanning have increased recently too.
  
  Authoritarians love to silence the opposition
- Hmmmmm. I got banned and I did wonder if my numerous anti trump stance had anything to do with it.
  Ok I did say that if a person ( not trump, nothing to do with trump ) had purposely run over one of my boys in his car like on the video, that he might end up in hospital. I got banned for threatening violence. I didn't threaten anyone in my mind. I appealed, no joy.

I created an account that was immediately shadowbanned. Before I posted or commented anything. I used a temporary mail address and I guess that was it. I used to create a new account every couple of months and that was fine for a long time, I think I still remember around 30 of them. But at some point it became a hassle.

From a sub: Banned from /r/Gaming for telling someone the specific number for the .BIN file needed for PlayStation emulation on a discussion about emulation.
I didn't link shit. The user themselves had a list of .BIN files they were looking at and wasn't sure what they needed. I just told them which one they needed. Banned for piracy. The discussion itself wasn't locked and they didn't even remove my comment.
From the whole site: Posted "I concur" on a post of a woman wearing a shirt that said "it is always moral to punch a Nazi." The whole thread was seemingly used by a Nazi admin as bait, because they kept the main post up while banning every commenter agreeing with it.
It was over-turned after I appealed 3 separate times. But it was when I really started looking for alternatives to Reddit. Not more than a month later, they announced the API changes and someone mentioned Lemmy. Now I am here.

Ban evading, on the one and only account I ever had. How I could have been evading a ban on an account that never existed is a mystery. But now I’m IP banned, and they don’t care about the appeals.
Before that, the account was temp banned for saying “trans women are women”, which was somehow “promoting violence”.
Also got banned from some parenting sub I’d never visited for posting in an LGBT sub.
- some subreddits will crossban you in certain politics subs you ever commented on it.

A few years back I upvoted a few comments in a post my husband had also interacted with and got hit with a temp ban for multi accounting.
- That's homophobic

I was never banned. I stopped participating after the API debacle. I still read on sub daily via old.reddit.com but it is busily dying. It will probably be dead before they kill off old.reddit.com.

I was banned from r/therightcannotmeme because my profile pic (same as here) is somehow bad. Had to pester the mods to even get an explanation, and they replied with one of those fancy terms marxists use. Imperialist? Reactionist?
Then - much more influential to me - I got kicked out from modding a sub (the only sub I ever modded) because I asked the head mod too many questions, or questioned their way of modding. Powertripping that person was.
I don't like when people shit on mods, because moderation is necessary. But that person basically proved all the haters right for me. And the silence of the other mods in that sub.

I used to browse Reddit from /r/all and I posted a comment on what I later realised was /r/conservative. I was subsequently banned from 20+ subs. They have bots checking subs they don't like and collectively ban contributors to those subs.
- luckily i had the forewarning from that sub, so i dint bother visiting it, i also use the filter filter out that sub, so i dont accidentally go into it. certain right wing subs will trigger a autoban from other subs.
- I trolled r/conservative a lot I don't think you get a ban from other communities, at least I never did, unless your account gets flaired by them.
  I came across a incel sub once and went in to troll them and did get banned by a bunch of pro women subs. Only one of which I was a reader of. I messaged the mod and explained, got that one taken off.
- This only happened to me the other way round: I couldn't join a sub because I was subscribed to other, opposed subs.
  I kinda understand why reddit mods do that, but I hope feddit/lemmit won't ever get to this point. There must be a better way.

On reddit you get banned if enough people report you, not because you actually deserve it
- isnt thats what brigading is, sometimes you can catch the douche for misinterpretering your comment and reporting you.
- THIS is a key point that most don't understand. There are some auto mod filters that will automatically block your post or comment, but it doesn't result in a ban. Site wide bans happen because of "reports" which draws the attention of Admins
  
  not anymore, now shadowbans are issued automatically by an AI, on any account that resembles a bot, even if you are not a bot, or now they are looking for sudden IP and browser changes too.

Not a perma ban but still.
Back when I used to be on Reddit much, I got auto banned from r/latestagecapitalism for having too much karma on certain subreddit they disliked. They weren't necessarily political in nature (I think I only frequented couple of political subs then and they were non US in nature) but apparently the concept of not breaking any rules on your sub but still being banned just because I participate in some place they dislike was dubious.
Not related, but I think I was very active on reddit from 2016-2021. I had gone through couple of user IDs then (stupidly forgotten the 2FA mechanism for both and never backed the recovery code :p) and had a decent curated feed. I still sporadically open it but hardly participate / post. The only thing worth keeping me there is old Reddit and RES which makes keyboard navigation a breeze.
- I deleted my main reddit account as soon as I switched to lemmy. I didn't want some sort of karma regret to kick in.

Not permabanned but subbanned for promoting violence in the conspiracy sub about human trafficking (Couple of years ago when abduction footages went viral, crypto black market trades etc) the more I read about how it operates the more anger I got.. also for critisizing cosplay sexualization in videogame subs.. it's just so tiresome to be policed around.
- alot of my accounts were sub-banned, but they started to permaban all the accounts. because any history of sub bans in any of your accounts can be considered ban evasion, even after 1+years.
- So basically I used reddit for fun like most of us. I very rarely engage in stuff that I don't want to know about, especially if I know I have absolutely no control over it. So I'm sure I'll regret asking but what are you talking about or explain how whatever it is operates.
  As far as cosplay sexualization I'm confused as to what you mean. Like incels trash talking women who dress up? The entire far right gaming community I'm so confused by. Gamers of the 80s - 2010 would have never tolerated what the right is taking over in gaming communities.
  Like this game is woke because of female lead. Etc be like that
  
  No there's imitation cosplay like full suits and softcore cosplay with a few matching cloths. Call me a sour prune if you will I don't ask for borderline nsfw photos and links to donation pages... There's more to it than that as Reddit grew the grift grew with it.
  Like mentioning weed once and getting pm'ed with dealer offers on snapchat. Fuck yes I'm getting old. I follow the weather forecast for hobby.

In a thread on stupid drug usage by Hitler I commented 'hold my ivermectin'.
I got banned three days for harassment.
I speaker the van an it got revoked though

For using a vpn, apparently.

Apparently thumbing up comments can get you bans nowadays. Not even saying anything yet I got perma banned for inciting violence...
So annoying. Fifteen year account with an ungodly amount of karma.

Banned from /r/Movies for calling out Tom Cruise as a scientologist piece of shit and encouraging people to boycott his movies. It was on a Mission Impossible circle-jerk post, so it likely did ruffle some feathers.
(I got a 3 day ban for something dumber, but I consider the /r/Movies ban more brag worthy.)
- oh yea, and that movies sub, i was commenting on sophie turners divorce from one of the jonas brothers, and i was banned for that.

I got banned only once, it was for "inciting violence" for the comment I made "Dems should stand up and fight for once"
Gold times. Was a member for 8 years.

Permabanned for cussing at someone who was giving targeted rpe and mrder threats, while that POS is still unbanned and happy🙏

I upvoted something. They won't tell me what. Reddit has gone to shit.

I was temp banned for antizionist comments, after realizing I would soon be banned permanently I left on my own terms

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