Yeah new users are like, semi-shadow banned for a while
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Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t really agree that it’s much easier to start on Reddit. Especially nowadays. -Post from an IP that was once used by a banned account? Also banned (after first being shadowbanned) -Try to post in any niche sub of your choosing after making an account? Forget it, wait three weeks and farm 3K karma first (which encourages shitposting and reposting, lowering quality) -Deviate a fraction of an inch from whatever sub’s 500-page rulebook? Banned. -Try to argue an unbanning? That’s a permanent mute.
Reddit is an absolutely terrible experience for new posters. How they even manage to retain a tenth of them is beyond me. I encourage them to keep it up however, more traffic for Lemmy.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Tiger@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Here’s another for your list:
- Use a VPN? Blocked from accessing it. (I try to get info from internet searches sometimes and they block me, I have to use a VPN because am in China.)
fangleone2526@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is only if you aren’t logged in. If you login to reddit you can use a VPN fine. It is still so incredibly annoying though.
Tiger@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Oh interesting to know thank you. I nuked my accounts there so am not doing that, I guess.
Resubscribe@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Another to add: Caught an IP ban for “report abuse” after reporting several bigots. Couldn’t have been more than 5. No warning or previous infractions, just straight up IP banned. Appealing did nothing, of course. Eventually just stopped caring.
Saw quite a few people saying they had the same thing happen. The general consensus of those threads was just not to report *anything *anymore…
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
This post is about UI tho, not about mod behaviour