I have mentioned in this group before that I had a 10 year old account with high karma totals that was permanently banned site wide 2 years ago. I had posted an article that conflicted with the reddit world view from a “source” that reddit allowed for linked posts. Anyway not to go into all that again here’s what happened.

I had read the discussions in this group regarding the changes at X and Meta. The shift is that all opinions are allowed except calling for violence or things obviously not true like the Sun rises in the West.

So I made another “appeal” to reddit with the perfunctory pledge not to violate their rules, which I won’t.

Next day I was reinstated. Are they shifting like X and Meta? Don’t know but if not it was a strange coincidence.

Though I prefer Lemmy I still enjoy the NON political reddit groups like for books, golf, etc. About a month ago I messaged the Lemmy Admins to appoint me a mod to the Lemmy “golf” group since it had been dormant for over a year. I was appointed a mod there. I started posting golf related things but with almost zero interaction from anyone on Lemmy. I realize that Lemmy has few active users. I read something a few weeks ago that actually estimated that there were only 1K of us.

I wish we could turn that around here and revive some of these groups.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    13 days ago

    Reddit is better PR for Lemmy than anything we can do. They’ll do something stupid again any day here and Lemmy will receive a big influx of users.

    If we really wanted to go evangelize, I think it would still be best to wait until Reddit does something that is going to frustrate users.

    • Mickey7@lemmy.worldOP
      42·
      13 days ago

      thanks for that I feel better now. Still wish we could get more participation in hobby type groups

  • jsonjson@lemmy.sdf.org
    4·
    12 days ago

    Could be related to them going public - people are scrutinizing their operations a bit more. Same reason the view count for subreddits suddenly went down by a factor of 10 post-IPO. They always have been, and always will be corrupt.

    But really, they’ve banned me in very insulting ways. I only keep an account around in case I really need to engage with a niche hobby subreddit, and it’s barely ever used. This company should understand what the consequences of burning bridges with a user base is.

    • Mickey7@lemmy.worldOP
      23·
      12 days ago

      Agreed. I specifically made the post for those who are permanently banned and miss some of their hobby groups. I’m not so special that they reinstated me without having changed their policy, so others should try it.

  • moe90@feddit.nlEnglish
    3·
    12 days ago

    it is depend on your luck actually. my account have been suspended without a reason and I send an email to support team last week and I have zero response.

    • Mickey7@lemmy.worldOP
      12·
      12 days ago

      Totally agree. It’s just an arbitrary exercise as to whether or not an Admin who gives a crap actually considers your appeal

  • GerardShah@lemmy.world
    1·
    9 days ago

    Glad to hear about your positive outcome! Could you please describe in more detail how did you contact them and what did you say? Is there a restriction on the length of the message?

    • Mickey7@lemmy.worldOP
      21·
      9 days ago

      There is definitely a restriction on the length of the message that you can sent. You first need to find the link specifically for appealing a ban. Messaging the Admins in general will get you no where. I simply said that I had an account that was 10 years old. (they could see the huge karma total that I had proving my account wasn’t a throw away) I have been suspended for 2 years. I broke the rules. I will abide by the rules going forward and please reinstate me.

        • Mickey7@lemmy.worldOP
          21·
          9 days ago

          No. I don’t think so. When I was initially banned I appealed and was rejected. Then I tried it again 6 months after the ban. Denied again. Then I forgot about it but all the talk of X and Meta changing the way that they handled things got me to thinking why not try it again. I have no idea if Reddit is changing their policy regarding permeant bans or if I just got lucky. I also think it helped in that I didn’t jump through all the hoops to create another account, which is of course against the rules…and the first thing that they look at when you are appealing.

          • GerardShah@lemmy.world
            2·
            9 days ago

            Interesting, because when i go to the link for appealing the ban, it says that i have already appealed and wont let me do it again. Maybe I will have to give it some time, or they have closed the possibility for more appeals?

            • Mickey7@lemmy.worldOP
              21·
              9 days ago

              I actually had to google reddit appeal to finally find the correct link. I was not able to get the link via my banned account. Do a search for reddit permeant ban and you should eventually find the link. Then just type in your reddit user name into the form

                • Mickey7@lemmy.worldOP
                  21·
                  8 days ago

                  Yes that is definitely the link. And yes I would wait several months and then start out by saying, “My account was banned X many months ago…”