Well now this is trashy. I got permabanned from r/interstingasfuck for posting a comment in r/MensRights that was an attempt to correct some misinformation. I’ve never made a post in either subreddit and that was the only comment I’ve ever made in the MensRights subreddit. But r/interstingasfuck’s bot decided to permaban me even though I’ve not broken any rules.
The single comment I’ve ever made on r/MensRights
Also I tried to make a post on r/MensRights (would have been my first post there) on me getting banned for making a comment and the mods there blocked it. You would think they’d love the chance to show they are victims of discrimination and censorship.
Man Reddit is trash.
Here’s a good tip, block all moderation bots on Reddit. That stops them from doing actions they aren’t entitled to as moderators like DMing you or checking post history outside of their subreddits.
The most notorious is u/BotDefense
u/SafestBot and u/SaferBot are other commonly used ones.
Some other ones I’ve come across are:
These are what I would call ban-by-association bots and I recommend blocking all these and any others you come across as it’ll decrease the amount of erroneous bans like this you receive on Reddit. There’s no easy way to identify them reliability so look through the moderators list before posting on any given sub and block ones that seem suspicious.
Also yes I’m aware this will help spammers and trolls and I don’t care, Reddit needs to die and people need to move on, spam helps loosen network effect by making it unbearable for normies, and even more unbearable for power users (the people who post the content that gets consumed). This information is way more valuable for users to counter abusive mod practices (like banning by association automatically) than it is harmful via the spam it creates as a byproduct.
We are in the era of the Dead Internet Theory. There’s no point to being online just to fight bots. I’ve banned these accounts but I’m only on Reddit for the communities that aren’t on Lemmy.
Thanks for the list.
Oh for sure. The name bot or spam defense is really a lie or doublespeak, their real purpose is anti-competition by automatically banning people who post in different subreddits. Combating spam isn’t their real purpose (they just say that because you can’t openly violate moderator CoC, you can only do it if you say you aren’t doing it), it’s making people afraid to visit competing subreddits or punish people for using subreddits the mods of the current subreddit hold a grudge against.
this equation can be radically simplified