I never paid for any of their products but now that I’m banned I see how much the profit off of everyone’s knowledge. It’s really such a scam. Convince everyone to contribute tons of useful information that when the rest of the Internet does searches it leads directly to Reddit where they get ad revenue for every click. Pretty unscrupulous if you ask me.
Yes this is me, I had like 8 or 9 accounts, I commented something “political” (I said health insurance is horrible and a joke in this country, and that it should be Medicare for all) in r/genx, sorry wasn’t paying attention to each subreddits rules every time I posted a comment. My bad didn’t realize how serious that was. Then got a 7 day ban will I accidentally (not on purpose at all, was not trying to evade a ban or anything I was just not paying attention) commented again on a gen x comment got instantly banned. I freaked out like what the hell. I asked for an appeal, got denied So a little while later I turned on my VPN (now I know how stupid that was) instantly I started getting notifications from all my accounts that they were banned for ban evasion. WTF stupidest thing is that I didn’t know that I would be “forever banned” you know they could just say like you have a year or something. But really banning people forever seems fucking stupid. I didn’t purposefully try to evade a ban from one subreddit, I was logged in with my other account and didn’t even think to look at what Reddit I was posting to, I just commented while reading and bam almost 10 years of contributions, community building, good faith arguments all gone, but fucking horrible subreddits taking about how to r*pe lesbians can still fucking be on there. What a cesspool. I’m sad I’m banned but at the same time I think maybe it was for the best seeing just how addicted I had become to scrolling and commenting. I just miss my communities. I hope I can build some new and better relationships here.
Isn’t that so stupid, they let you have multiple accounts, let you switch though them easily, then if you accidentally post in a sub you’ve been banned in you get permanently banned on all you accounts. If they didn’t want you to have more than one account they shouldn’t allow it