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They are perma banning for anything now. I went to the stages of grief when it first happened. My main account was 13 years old 300,000 karma.

I was prime mod of r/ask psychology for a decade. So much free work I did. And I was a good mod. I almost never banned anyone permanently. Usually 7 day bans for being an ass hole.

I worked with people to get their post approved. I always tried to help people understand the rules with examples or give them suggestions on how to make their post.

I admitted when I was wrong and fixed the issues when someone flagged them.

I also always had high quality support mods on my team. And we often discussed issues with people so that we weren’t too biased.

Running that sub was important to me. So much disinformation is spread about psychology topics. And I wanted at least 1 place that people could trust.

We gave credential flair to experts and I personally had them send me proof of credentials.

It took me years to polish that sub. I learned to code the automod for that sub.

Me and other mods created wikis for career info and education.

So much work.

Gone.

I tried sending appeals multiple times. No response.

I was angry. I was in denial. I bargained. But ultimately I accepted it. And ive walked away.

The ask psychology sub was left in good hands. And maybe it’s time I passed on the torch anyway.

Started moding that sub when I was working on my B.A and now I’m finishing up my PhD. It was just this sort of passion project for me.

All things change. I left it in good hands. It is what it is.

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IonTempted@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Damn, I actually didn’t expect a story like that especially from how old your account was at that point.

Now I’m even more mad about Reddit heaaring those stories and I’m saying time and time again that Reddit has an AWFUL moderating system almost like it’s not there at all.

Don’t let those fake points though define you man, I also was making content SFW and NSFW, I was thinking alright if I’m in the r/presidents subreddit what is something engaging I can post, I used to think that a lot of karma was everything but eh in the end who cares.

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- daannii@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah I’m not the only one who was a long term user who got perma banned over some b.s. there are comments all over Lemmy of stories like mine.
  
  I guess most of that karma was from answering questions. And I was kind of proud of it. But I reminded myself when I lost the account. It is fake internet points. It doesn’t actually matter. It doesn’t undo the work.
  
  I also used to post tutorials for various hobbies I do. That’s also been a pain cause now when people want to message me a question, they can’t.
  
  I was pretty active in 3d printing subs. I made models to fix problems and made some troubleshooting tutorials and mod tutorials. Luckily I linked to 3d website accounts so people message me through there sometimes with questions.
  
  It’s just been like. Very inconvenient. And it feels like something was stolen from me.
  
  I guess I’m still a bit sour about it. And now all my alt accounts are banned as of last month. I haven’t even used them for anything.
  
  They just did some sweep where they found alt accounts of banned accounts and banned those too.
  
  My 2nd account was 8 years with 10k karma.
  
  Also I modded two small subs. No other mods. So I don’t know what’s even going on with those now. R/lightpainting and r/paracosms
  
  Very small subs but they need someone to keep the spam in check.
  
  My other sub I modded for a decade was the one that caused the ban. It was for the city I’m in. And maga trolls starter harassing protest posts. Threats. I posted a list of their user names. Saying these people are trolls and are banned. Apparently that’s “doxing”.
  
  And that Asmongold guy posted my user name on his stream and on Twitter and told people to harass me.
  
  I got a lot of messages. Weak ass threats. So many threatening to sue me for banning maga trolls. It was actually a bit amusing.
  
  They also tried to find my identity but a decade on a psych sub taugt me to keep identifying info off reddit. They kept sending me links to random people’s Facebook saying “this you?”. Or “your dog is ugly”.
  I don’t have a dog.
  
  I was worried they thought they found me and was harassing some poor innocent person.
  
  I sent screen shots of the Twitter post to reddit admin. Reported the threat messages.
  
  Also a week before that I messaged them and told them my sub was getting targeted and asked for assistance. No reply.
  
  But the magas reported everything I did. Including some political art. And I was perma banned for inciting violence via political art. And doxing.
  
  The art was the statue of Liberty holding Elon’s severed head. Sure it was extreme (that’s the point of political Art). But. It was within reason. Imo.
  
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