• @Gawdsausage@lemm.ee
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    373 months ago

    They banned my old reddit account because I reported fake news that was being posted on r/conservative. Apparently subreddit mods can report users who use the report tool and can just get you banned.

    • Cinder Bloc
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      133 months ago

      They recently, meaning I don’t exactly know when it happened, gave mods the ability to report you for “Abuse of the report tool”. For the record, I’m a mod on some subreddits, and that’s an absurd thing to need. I’ve learned a few things about being a Reddit mod.

      1. It’s not nearly as hard as some mods make you think it is.
      2. If they actually experience difficulty, it’s probably cause they suck at being a mod.
      3. Subs that experience issues, are typically cess pools like r/conservative.
      • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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        3 months ago

        yea ive been reported for “report abuse” when the comments were legitimately trolls or obviously posting misinformation, crossbanning is also just as ridiculous. from what ive gathered, some mods are lazy into responding to every post being reported so they decided just to get rid of the reporter instead having to deal with.

    • @Taldan@lemmy.world
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      83 months ago

      I got a warning for a similar thing. They can disagree with the report, but warning/banning users for it is insane

      • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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        03 months ago

        i got hit with report abuse a couple times. there were legitimate comments that should be reported but not getting removed.

    • I got banned because I posted a comment on an anti vaxx sub (I was challenging one of their comments) and found out a lot of subs had ban bots that just watched who posted to subs they didn’t like. Whatever you do don’t put any thought into your mod work or look at the comment’s context.