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points by unethical_ban 1 day ago | 0 comments

My account of well over a year and 11k karma was banned by admins presumably for an admin-deleted comment where I said "Hi kids, buy our product!" as a Steve-Buschemi-meme reference, and was flagged as spam. To your point they also have their Comment Quality Score (CQS) which lowers you automatically if you use Proton email aliases, lowers you if you use VPN to access the site, among other things.

Made several polite appeals and requests for clarification, all which went unanswered.

[–] firesteelrain 1 day ago

I was banned from subreddits for belonging to r/conservative. Mods wanted me to disavow that subreddit to atone for the sin of belonging to that subreddit.

[–] AngryData 6 hours ago

You will catch political sub bans for posting in and/or joining all sorts of other political subs, no matter what you actually said. I got more than a few from the exact opposite end of the political spectrum. All the political subs have been bought and paid for by propagandists for atleast a decade now. And having to either catching more random bans or having to self-censor myself, I left.

Hell there were even multiple political sub moderator purges that were right out in the open. Entire mod lists changing over night in multiple subs even way back.

[–] freecodeio 18 hours ago

tbh it's quite a sin to belong to that subreddit, might as well as just inject bleach and it's the same level of stupidity

[–] firesteelrain 18 hours ago

It’s censorship

[–] freecodeio 17 hours ago

the sub that censors the rest of the reddit userbase gets censored by the rest of the reddit userbase, color me surprised

[–] firesteelrain 17 hours ago

It wants you to have a conservative viewpoint. But it doesn't ban you if you join like say r/AdviceAnimals which 2 years ago many subreddits were taken over when Trump was running for office again. r/AdviceAnimals and others were banning those that were members of r/conservative.

Reddit took action in March 5, 2026 to stop that practice.

Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/1rllqrw/ban_bot_po...

There is a policy of ideological gatekeeping by certain Moderators.

[–] freecodeio 17 hours ago

> It wants you to have a conservative viewpoint.

no it bans you for not having a conservative viewpoint, that's completely different from wanting you