I once got banned from a sub for saying I didn't want to say what I really felt because I don't want to break any rules.
Mod replied that the ban was correct, I was not supposed to talk about rules in the sub. You never know who you're at the mercy of and what their level of sanity is.
Some of those mods have serious egos too, they think of themselves as like gods of reddit. A while ago some of those dudes modded 25-30 of the BIG subs.
One super mod chirped back on me about a question I asked after a warning or something, he answered like an asshole, and I replied I'm not sure what you just said there can you explain? Mod replied back with basically wtf did you just say to me?! I was basically like I technically didn't do anything. Wild behavior - convo is a tad hazy was from years ago at this point
There needs to be some kind of review/appeal system for this kind of behavior. There's way too many subreddits for it to scale though.
But yeah, this site is designed to be manipulated. I've seen some real questionable stuff on niche subs.
That's why you see astroturfing and manipulation, even in major subs like cryptocurrency, If you say anything not aligning with their narrative you get banned. You can't even link to posts in that sub on other subs.
I once got temp-banned from a subreddit I don't follow for upvoting a comment in a completely unrelated subreddit that showed up on the front page. I was very confused.
I got banned on defendingaiart for saying that the guy posted comitted a crime by depicting antiai people in a demeaning way. It features a comment where the name was hidden, but it still can count as defamation.
I was banned from a sub that rhymes with hersonal pinance for having “official” in my username for promotion. I let the mod know that I have no website and am not promoting anything. That’s just my username. They permabanned me, and it’s against sub rules to create another account if you are banned.
So I’m banned from a subreddit I actively contributed to just because someone associates my word with promotional accounts
Try putting millionaire in your username next time. It might make you an actual millionaire, according to mod logic. I swear, posting in some of those subs is like
I got banned from r/comics for saying, in a thread about twitter, that Musk’s purchase of it didn’t destroy Twitter like Reddit predicted, and TikTok did more damage. I despise Elon Musk, who the fuck doesn’t, and refuse to call Twitter anything else… but apparently if you aren’t explicitly critical of Musk on that sub you get banned and if you ask why you were banned you get permanently muted without answer. Typical mod behaviour.
I was banned from r/nationalparks for my reply to a question someone posted, asking what national park someone should go to if they could only go to one park ever. Someone answered Smoky Mountain National Park and I responded to them that SMNP would not even be in my top 10. Somehow that got me banned. When I messaged the mods to ask about it, they just muted me.
I got banned from a sub for saying "also beware of hidden profiles on reddit" as a reply to someone else saying to beware of posters pushing racial or political division on the left. Turns out it was a mod that made the OP and apparently took offense and banned me, probably the guy I was replying to as well.
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u/MaximusHomerdrive Aug 17 '26
I once got banned from a sub for saying I didn't want to say what I really felt because I don't want to break any rules.
Mod replied that the ban was correct, I was not supposed to talk about rules in the sub. You never know who you're at the mercy of and what their level of sanity is.