If you’ve received a temporary ban from Reddit, what happened?

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I got a 7-day-ban for threatening violence towards people. It was a response to a gardening post about eradicating pests in my garden with a rifle. I appealed, my bad was lifted.

Has anything like this happened to you?

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    I got a 7-day-ban for threatening violence towards people. It was a response to a gardening post about eradicating pests in my garden with a rifle. I appealed, my bad was lifted.

    Has anything like this happened to you?

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  2. SRAMcuck Avatar

    Yes plenty of times. Angry blue hairs and their deeply misandrist worldview are unfortunately running Reddit.

  3. rrgow Avatar

    Garden combined with weaponry. It made me chuckle haha.

  4. hujambo11 Avatar

    It eventually ended.

  5. Bot_Ring_Hunter Avatar

    It is a very, very, frequent occurrence. Can also happen for simply upvoting posts deemed to be threatening violence. First review/ban is AI, appeal is supposed to be human.

  6. TheAtheistReverend Avatar

    I’ve been banned from a community sun for not towing their party line, in a “non-political” sub. Tried to ask for clarification and was basically told to funk off and the mods blocked me.

  7. Ratakoa Avatar

    Yeah, same reason. The OP asked what weapon would change the Earth. I answered as I do, and auto mod bopped me.

  8. Mr-sheepdog_2u Avatar

    I think I got 3 days once from where I don’t remember it was a long time ago.

  9. Imsoamerican Avatar

    It’s been happening more and more as Reddit leans more to the left. Unfortunately, opinions can’t be expressed anymore if they are against the mods opinions. Watch this comment get removed.

  10. SewerSlidalThot Avatar

    Plenty of times! I’ve even been permanently banned 3 times, and obviously I’ve been able to successfully appeal the bans each time.

  11. JellyDenizen Avatar

    Several times, usually by political/current events subs that don’t tolerate opinions that conflict with their orthodoxy.

  12. Lord_darkwind Avatar

    Thankfully, it was only a 3-day suspension. I appealed and got it overturned — over a post asking ‘If you got to pick, how would you choose to die?’ My reply was a little bloodthirsty. 18+ 🚫

    https://www.reddit.com/u/Lord_darkwind/s/Vb1emIg8rX

  13. ElephantElmer Avatar

    Recently, it was for a comment I made but I have no idea what the comment was exactly since it was erased. Definitely felt like a Trumptard reported me though.

  14. CursedSnowman5000 Avatar

    yep, I got that for wishing ill on notorious convinced murderer and rapists Richard Ramirez. I contested it but apparently Reddit felt it was valid to ban me for saying such a vile thing about such an “upstanding” historical figure of American history.

    Then I got my account suspended for basically saying Punisher did nothing wrong. I contested it again and apparently Reddit felt that one might have been too stupid to make stick lol, so I got my account back.

  15. whynotlook123 Avatar

    I’m permanently blocked from r/nba for quoting biggie smalls.

  16. Ghostforever7 Avatar

    I commented about self-defense once and found out anything advocating for fighting is bad, but thankfully just a warning.

  17. Waikika_Mukau Avatar

    Someone asked a question “What would you do if you saw Jesus standing on the side of the road?”

    I don’t want to repeat my answer in case I get banned again but I suggested using my car to test his resurrection abilities. You know, to make sure it really is him.

  18. sheikhyerbouti Avatar

    Apparently tankies don’t like it when you ask them which local candidates they support online.

    I guess ranting online is considered activism.

  19. raccoonsonbicycles Avatar

    I quoted Riley Cooper’s racist quote but replaced the N word with “New York fans”. It was in quotes and was followed by –Riley Cooper

    …in the nfc east meme sub.

  20. avalanchefan95 Avatar

    I got a permanent ban from Reddit on this account for seemingly maybe encouraging someone to kill themselves? I have no idea actually. I WAS talking to a couple people but I DEF never said anything weird to any of them but it won’t take you to the comment you’ve been banned for. I just asked for a human review and it was overturned in a day or two.

  21. frodosbitch Avatar

    There was a news story about a Muslim association in Canada that was having a protest for ‘parents rights’.  That being code language for forbidding any mention of trans people in schools.  

    I replied – hey (name of association) – fuck you.  Not to Islam as a religion. Not to all Muslim people.  But to that particular association.  

    7 day hate speech ban.  I appealed noting that Reddit itself bans anti trans speech, but no response.  

  22. 44035 Avatar

    Yes, I got a temporary ban because I was in a politics thread and I brought up the topic of “k*lling the filibuster” and they said I was advocating violence. It just makes me hate these mindless bots that flag words but can’t grasp meaning.

  23. lotusblossom60 Avatar

    Yes. Because I said, “one day we will read his obituary”. Banned.

  24. BosasDonuts56 Avatar

    I got permanently banned a couple years back for saying “I don’t believe anyone should ever hit their kids BUT striking a little fear into them might be necessary.” Anyways, ya I got permanently banned for that. Just kinda goes to show how soft Reddit is and why this app is the epitome of what’s wrong with the world today

  25. FuRadicus Avatar

    Something similar. It was a post about being as annoying as possible. I mentioned open carrying a thing and got banned for threatening violence. Appealed and got denied. 🤣

  26. ScreenTricky4257 Avatar

    I said that a baseball player was justified in “throwing hands” with an umpire who had called a pitch outside the zone a strike. Which I stand by.

  27. something_lite43 Avatar

    I got perm-banned on the deadbedrm sub….all bc I laughed at something. That’s it.

  28. Random-Mutant Avatar

    Yes. Appealed. Lifted.

    Reports of this all over.

    The bots are set too strict and I reckon the admins will get sick of it and loosen controls eventually. Or tweak the AI.

    But it’s annoying when it’s happening

  29. OGigachaod Avatar

    Yeah, I got a 3 day ban lifted after I made a joke about a knuckle sandwich.

  30. IVIalefactoR Avatar

    A long time ago back when Overwatch was new and I was pretty big into watching Twitch streamers play it, one of the streamers I watched made a huge play.

    Somebody clipped it and posted it to reddit and posted the reddit thread link in chat. I clicked on it and upvoted it and was rewarded with a 3-day suspension for “brigading” lol

    Also, I’m pretty sure you get automatically banned from some subreddits like /r/TwoXChromosomes just for posting in this subreddit.

  31. ThicccBoiiiG Avatar

    I’ve been banned for that multiple times recently. They always get appealed and dropped after a day.

    Every single time nothing I said was remotely violent. The bot is terrible.

  32. WhenWillIBelong Avatar

    I got a temporary ban for saying it’s ethical to burn down the homes of landlords. 

    I got another one for saying it’s unfortunate I can’t tell in public who the covid deniers are so I can spit in their face. 

    I was permanently banned from r/feminism for replying to post saying ‘all men are rapists’ and should be treated as rapists where I said that perspective is prejudice, no different to racism.

  33. Canyon-Man1 Avatar

    Not from Reddit. Not yet anyway.

    Got a few Facebook Bans and then some from Nextdoor. Matter of fact, I refise to be friends with any one who hasn’t been banned on Next Door.

  34. Still-Camera5563 Avatar

    Yeah, tons of times. Think they should give karmas for how many downvotes and bans you get.

  35. PM_good_beer Avatar

    I vaguely referenced the guillotine as a tool to stop fascism. More specifically, I said the French invented a useful tool for that.

  36. Bludandy Avatar

    It was a 7 day for telling people they’re allowed to trespass nuisance customers. I guess that’s a violent threat? I appealed and won though. I think the violence bans are because of the support for Mister Mangione. Stranger conspiracies have happened.

  37. FuckLex Avatar

    Have an account somewhere that was perma’d for talking about eradicating rats in your back yard. I live in Chicago. We are obligated to do so. Reddit apparently just sucks at everything they do.

  38. GrumpyOlBastard Avatar

    Happens rarely for me. Last time was about a month ago, banned from some sub or other for saying I was anticipating a certain someone’s f*neral.

    Banned for inciting violence

  39. Upbeat_Ice1921 Avatar

    I appealed a ban after a mod thought I was inciting violence, when in actual fact I was quoting the OPs words in their post.

    It got overturned after 24 hours.

  40. Brett707 Avatar

    I got a 14 day ban from r/fishing for saying a fish was named George after someone asked for help identifying a fish they caught. You know because fishing is super serious.

  41. soullessgingerz2 Avatar

    That’s OK. I disagreed with a moderator and was banned. Never said a bad word or threat, just proved them wrong

  42. RoGeR-Roger2382 Avatar

    I got a 7 day ban from the College basketball sub for shit talking a player.

    Never once went back 

  43. champagneinmexico2 Avatar

    I just created a second account and put a “2” after my profile name and rejoined

  44. ltctrader Avatar

    Two men barged into a cellphone store in broad daylight brandishing weapons. The owner just noped out of the store and pulled down the night time barricade fencing locking the culprits inside.

    The thieves started begging people to let them out before the police arrived.

    I made the comment “trapped like monkies In a zoo” as a very large crowd had surrounded the gates looking at them as they pleaded.

    I was banned for life from /r/videos

  45. Driftlessfshr Avatar

    It hasn’t happened to me, but anything that is auto-moderated is bound to keep doing this.

  46. babybear49 Avatar

    I got banned from r/sports for saying that kid who got disqualified from the swimming race for jumping out of his lane after he won should have known the rules.

  47. mo_mentumm Avatar

    I said confederate generals should have been hanged at the end of the civil war.

  48. NostrilInspector1000 Avatar

    When you put it straight,many mods hate truth and ban people 🥴

  49. jpsreddit85 Avatar

    Senator Machin got covid a while back as he was voting on the Republican side. I posted a fingers crossed emoji and got band from politics. 

  50. NJ_casanova Avatar

    Moderator’s with a power trip? Might be some “woke” agenda?

    I’m not sure, they never have the common decency to actually answer questions.

    It’s like Reddit’s piss poor help forum.

  51. FastWalkingShortGuy Avatar

    Yep.

    I made up a hypothetical person from a real location to use as an example of annoying behavior, and it apparently rustled someone’s Jimmies bad enough to report me for doxxing.

    I got a permanent ban, but appealed it, and they overturned it.

  52. RGfrank166 Avatar

    Ya, some people get butt hurt on the interwebs and they report you. Honestly some of the things I got reported on (and successfully appealed) piss me of but Reddit is free so they make their money with advertisements, which in turn means they are (way to) careful with potential comments.
    Still pisses me off though

  53. KingBadford Avatar

    I got one for suggesting that neo-nazis who wear masks to hide their identities should be given something they can’t take off. Also got a warning recently for a similar comment.

  54. RoseyOneOne Avatar

    I’ve had that happen for a similar thing. A guy posted that he thought a family member was poisoning his dogs. Two dogs dead over the course of a few years. The poster was worried because that family member was going to be around again. In the spirit of camaraderie I made a quip about poisoning the poisoner. Automatic 7 day ban. I appealed it and the mod didn’t answer. I guess they thought I was a super serious arsenic merchant.

  55. WatchingThisWatch Avatar

    I got banned twice. One was from Lego because i commented to a post of this OF model holding a lego set with “a whore with her toy”. And then the second time was from KidsAreFuckingStupid of this clip of a kid getting black paint all over the living room furniture, the floor, the kitchen cabinets and i commented “time to pull out the belt” or “time for a spanking” one of those two. Yeah.

  56. shinnagare Avatar

    I said a person mentioned in a news article was a “fucking idiot. The mods sent me a warning at 2 a.m. and said I had one hour to delete or edit my comment, or I would be permanently banned. I saw their warning five hours after they’d sent it, and by then the ban was permanent.

  57. MontEcola Avatar

    I got banned. First for 3 days. Then for a week. Both times it was about staying peaceful during protests. Both times it was supporting the right to protest, and supporting why to protest. I suspect a person with an opposite opinion who reported. I found it ironic that telling people to behave triggered getting banned. I think I used certain key words and the bot could not tell the difference between do this, and don’t do this.

  58. bobroberts1954 Avatar

    I was banned from mechanic advice or some such for saying changing oil at 3000 miles was excessive and that I knew a tribologist that never changed the oil, only his filter in 10 years. Apparently bit the hand that feeds them.

  59. C1sko Avatar

    I’ve been shadowbanned twice by the bots. The first time I didn’t care but the second time I got banned, it was straight BS hate on my comment so I challenged it and specifically wrote that I wanted a human moderator and I was reversed.

  60. Rainsmakker Avatar

    I am currently banned for repeating the name of the racist Minnesota mother who used racial slurs against a 5-year-old black boy at a playground and has since raised over $600,000 from other racists so she can move.

  61. HotZombie95 Avatar

    I was “rude” (defending my opinion is being rude apparently) towards a mod

  62. NooNotTheBees57 Avatar

    I got year-banned from Atheism for saying I don’t give a rat’s shit about some Hindus or Christians being attacked and killed by Muslims (or the other way around). They said I was “glorifying violence”. Why should I give any shits about psychopaths killing other psychopaths, ya know?

  63. nowhereisaguy Avatar

    I said that anyone who SA kids should either be removed from society and be chemically castrated if they re-enter society. Harsh opinion, but I mean… yeah.

    Guess I’m getting banned again.

  64. Previous_Ad_2193 Avatar

    I got banned for suggesting that Biden was demonstrating mental health / dementia issues. Guess I got that wrong huh.