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Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit (piunikaweb.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Paul McCartney’s official Reddit account seems to have been banned. The account, u/paulmccartney, had just dropped a set of photos and videos from the first night of his shows at the Fonda Theatre. It went straight into the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Then, not long after, the whole thing disappeared.

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[–] 125 points 7 months ago (18 children)

Reddit will ban you for even the mildest of takes. Their AI admin is draconian in metering out bans. The platform seems to really want to get rid of all of the pesky humans still there and just be a safe space for bots.

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  • [–] 40 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    I honestly don't know how anyone stays on Reddit very long. They permaban people for ANYTHING these days. They abdicated their site to psychopathic, power-tripping mods.

    Just for context, Ghislane Maxwell was a Reddit mod.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    It's not even worth lurking there. Every post is just five "original" comments, and then everything below those are people repeating the same five comments a hundred times.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    That was a thing WAY before AI and bots tho...

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Absolutely.
    The new bots just add to the cacaphony of mindless comments.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Weaponized reposting. Posts and connents. That was a thing before AI too. Remember, who was it, maybe POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS, who looked up super old reposts and cut n pasted the top scoring comment from them..

    Oy vey...

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    And their bans really stick. If you piss them off enough, they connect every account you've ever had, somehow, and the ones they miss, if you log in it's a matter of days before they catch on.

    It's kind of impressive, actually.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I know. When I got permabanned after 12 years and a million Karma, I started using a new account, and lasted about 3 months. After that, they tracked me down faster and faster. The last one permabanned me in minutes before I could post my first message. They got my number now, and it's probably gotten even tighter with AI.

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  • [+] 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah I miss asking super niche questions on certain subs, because there's usually enough users to have a prompt reply.

    But fediverse is growing, slowly. Sadly best way to keep growing it is to stay and promote it on Reddit, everyone who's fed up for the same reasons we are are ripe for the plucking.

    Comes with a bunch of idiots, of course, myself included so YMMV.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I got a site wide ban and all my alts were banned at the same time because I called someone who was shitting on Trans people "a disgusting piece of human garbage". Apparently that was inciting hatred or violence and I can no longer make an account without it being banned within an hour or two.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    To be fair if you mention trans at all you're probably getting banned and get your name on a list.

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