“Let’s get rid of our longest running users, that should help the site move forward.”
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pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
I got my 15 year old account permanently banned for filing one report against a user who was stalking my profile to call me slurs. (This was “abusing the report button”, apparently.) Everyone in my household got their accounts banned alongside mine. It’s very strange how the site is being run now.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
In a fucked up way, yes. As in I think it’s intentional/logical on their part. The culture of reddit has been changing for a while. I think they would want the “old heads” to leave, but also leave behind their posts/comments for others (and Reddit) to benefit off of.
That’s why people use those web apps that overwrite their comments with garbage. But I always think about how Reddit controls the servers, data, and backups.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Could you point me to one that overwrites my old posts?
7toed@midwest.social 17 hours ago
Eh it doesnt really matter, I’m sure they kept running archives even before selling off to altman, and invariably impacts more actual people trying to maybe find that one useful comment to fix something.
BanMe@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Yeah my 10+ yr account was like #340 in comment karma or some shit, I was clearly a contributor, but they banned me for nothing. Wish I would have sold it now.
creisel@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
you can sell an reddit account?
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Yeah they can be worth quite a lot too
AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
So how does a person sell their account !?
Scrollone@feddit.it 8 hours ago
Yeah, I’m also interested. Why not? Better to sell it now that has value than just getting banned.
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
How much karma was that? I lost 3 accounts and one had over 100k comment karma, so they lost another good user here as well.
I loved to post solutions to problems that never got solved on several subreddits, oh well.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Woah… what’s this? I had no idea reddit accounts hold value!
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Reddit has a whole metagame on trolling users in these ways. I don’t think corporate cares at all. If anything spez probably welomes it.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Yeah. When my 12 year old account got banned I stopped caring about that site and started creating new accounts every week and just posting whatever the hell I wanted without feeling like I needed to censor myself anymore. So their ban happy culture tends to have the opposite effect of what they want.
There’s a browser script out there that auto-adds all your subs back from your old account, so it really wasn’t even inconvenient for me other than the 2 minutes it takes to create a throwaway email account and create a new throwaway Reddit account.
And yeah, their methods for preventing you from coming back end up preventing others using the same computer or in the same household from coming back, so they just lose users. Their methods aren’t very sophisticated though, so it’s pretty easy to avoid them.
Shit site.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The problem with that is that it’s so locked down now you need an account of X age with Y karma, so the majority of the site isn’t something you can participate in. And I get it, lots of spam accounts and whatnot, but still shitty that they’re a hair trigger away from destroying years worth of built up karma over nothing.