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The gloomy sentiment around Reddit Inc. has failed to dissipate after its shares fell 50% from a February high, with volatile technology stocks under pressure.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Holy shit, me too.

They said I threatened violence because in a thread about Putin potentially being sick, I said I wished he had a painful slow death.

Apparently even bloodthirsty dictators get to have their poor feelings protected by Reddit.

Fuck Reddit! I'm just gonna abandon that shit platform

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

you got brigaded by pro-russian bots, and yes russian backed trolls do mass report people too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I had two main accounts. My oldest account got permabanned for a joke about Nick Fuentes. After his address got doxxed and he pepper sprayed a woman who rang his doorbell back in December of last year, I said "hey as an incel he should be happy that the ladies know where he lives now so they can share a cocktail with him", and I added a cartoon gif of a Molotov. It was obviously a joke, but they said it was "promoting/glorifying violence". I ate the bullet on that one because they were technically right, even if they were a bunch of humorless twats.

My other account got banned about a month ago when I up voted a comment that was just a picture of Luigi Luigi (the Nintendo character) smoking a cigarette. Again for "promoting/glorifying violence".

Elon Musk is a weak little crybaby and Steve Huffman is a pathetic coward.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

sounds like you were part of the ban waves going on. there was one around the election, another around DEC mid, we noticed because reddit was extremely quiet of all propaganda for like a day or 2.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait... What?

Sure, the first example is understandable.

The second!? WTF!?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah they've come out and said recently that even interacting with any content or comments that could so much as be perceived as being related to Luigi Mangione is a violation of Reddits policies against promoting violence. People have been getting warnings that their accounts are in danger of being permanently banned just for visiting certain subs. Not for posting. Not for commenting. Not even for voting. Just for visiting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

basically the thought police.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Idek wtf i said lmaoo. Atleast you got told you were deplatformed for daring to disagree with the regime. I just got shown the door. This place seems much nicer though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

a ludicrous ban, is when i got "temp banned for report abuse" turns out if you report too many people who have spreading misinformaiton or lies, you get automatically flagged. the community is keeping the trolls in check, while mods and reddit admins sititng on thier asses of selective moderation.

and we know certain subs, are owned by a few power mods. LEO controls multiude of mods about crime and law subs(this includes the videos subs). askdoc is probably the only sub/medical is correctly moderated, they do it to prevent pseudoscience/ misinformation, one time after '16 election, someone try to analyze Hillaries facial movements as having some kind of stroke(the mods shut that down very quick)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

The excuse to ban someone over reporting will never not be hilarious to me. Like dawg, sorry were making you do your fucking job and improve your site.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Well, I had enough of this bullshit, and together with news that Reddit's CEO was pressured by Musk of all people to curb dissent, I just deleted my accounts.

Bye Reddit.

I'm 100% a Lemmee guy now