Good, fuck reddit.

Fuck Spez.

I'm surprised that reddit has leaned so hard into the act of perma-bans and site-wide bans. These are high intent users. Only a finite proportion of the internet wants to use reddit over say, TikTok, Instagram, Discord, etc. These bans are costing them a resource that is unlikely to renew itself, as users go elsewhere and do different things with their lives.

If all bans were capped at thirty days, that would still suck sometimes, but accounts I've had since the late 2000's could be revived. I had one account with 100k karma before it got burned down for my political views + ban evasion. Subreddit mods could even have a bot that re-bans users after 30 days, that's still preferable to reddit itself causing a mass extinction of old accounts that were valuable to the people who created them.

i got banned fall 2023 in r/worldnews for suggesting that conflicts in the middle east are perpetuated for profit.

I've been recently sitewide banned for alleged ban evasion, the ban in question being a 3-day ban from r/youll_be_banned. Why on earth I'd ever evade that ban, it's beyond me. Obviously I didn't do that, but the automated system didn't like me I guess

I mean I WAS always more of a poster than a commentor, so if this article is true then maybe it does make sense why I got unlucky

Yet these actions also favor users who behave in the manner most useful to the platform’s economic model while making participation difficult for those whose primary goals are sharing articles and information, having thoughtful and civil discussions and presenting original content.

Has Reddit sacrificed an opportunity for meaningful civic discourse in its pursuit of extracting maximum value from its users’ unpaid labor?

Yes. Next question?

Can I just randomly throw in that new reddit's UI just plain sucks? Holy hell it’s bad. (I'm still looking at a few very niche subs.)

"Aggressive bans", please. Half the site is the most obnoxious people you've ever met and the other half are bots. Normal people on reddit represent a statistically insignificant percent of users. I would love it if they could be aggressive with bans.

Can we talk about the unnecessary death of the Oxford comma?

Fuck all headlines that don't use it.

Although Reddit possesses many of the structural features of a public sphere, its economic incentives increasingly reward bias, outrage, conformity and superficial engagement instead of the kind of informed discussion and critical reflection that could lead to beneficial social change.

Unfortunately not enough people realized this three years ago, and most still don't.

"One account had approximately 200,000 comment karma and only a few hundred post karma. This is the person Reddit wants to keep. This type of guy (the most aggressive users still seem to be guys) will not get his account banned."

Bullshit, they banned my account and it was a higher comment karma number than this. The bans made no sense. On top of that they are using pixel (or something similar) so I made a new account it was insta-banned. I said "fuck it" and havent been back even as an offline user.

I was part of that ban sweep. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

thier revenue depends google and open AI SCRAPING the comment seciton and posts. as of recently thier bot traffic/scraping drop so much that reddit is trying to force lurkers to login now, so they do everything disincentivize any lurking at all. All this lurking was cause by thier original ban/purges too.

Reddit argues that its recent enforcement actions, banning large numbers of users who claim to have done nothing wrong, are efforts to improve platform “integrity,” stop manipulation and remove inauthentic activity.

And yet they banned me because I lost it over someone posting a picture showing animal abuse.

How did the picture even get past their mods?

Fucking cunts at Reddit.

I really miss pre-2021 or so Reddit. Hard to believe what it’s devolved into how.