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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    I got banned from a bunch of Reddit subs for once telling someone they were wrong about the Yorkshire accent in the UK. They called me a liar about being British and then I got banned from like 30 places at once.

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      I got a “permanent suspension” from all of Reddit. Isn’t a suspension temporary, wouldn’t a permanent suspension just be a ban?

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      I got a sitewide warning a couple of months ago for suggesting that Trump’s inaugural “board of peace” meeting was the apotheosis of the “you have one bullet…” thought experiment. “After reviewing, we found that you broke Rule 1 because you threatened violence or physical harm.” I’ll wager Trump’s secret service guys were absolutely shitting themselves when they read it, so it’s probably for the best they took it down tbf.

      On the bright side, it was the kick up the backside that was needed to get me to try Lemmy, and I hardly use Reddit at all now.

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        I replaced every one of my comments and posts with lorem ipsum before I terminated my accounts.

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      That tracks. You pissed off someone who had a connection with a mod and/or admin. Been there!

      I got banned once for dunking on IG travel trends and the mod involved was dumb enough to PM me threatening me.

      It’s just pathetic how emotional and over reactive people saying crap on the internet they don’t like. I don’t agree with a lot of stuff but I see no reason to censor people for enjoying musicals or whatever else I hate.

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        I once got banned in a bunch of subs, including some I wasn’t even in, because a mod didn’t like a comment I made in a sub that wasn’t even theirs. They just didn’t like it, so they banned me in all the subs they modded. Fucking weirdos.

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        Considering all mods are probably mirrors of antiwork mod the entire world got to see - zero surprises there.

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        Plenty of .ml related moderators on other groups as well that will ban users on lemmy as well because of .ml bs.

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        Yes that happens, for some reason that user actively goes to FuckAI and bans people who posted there. I can only assume that they see disdain for AI as a personal slight.

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        Yeah so the AI haters have doxxed them, posted their photos on Lemmy, and harassed them non stop.

        But you got banned, that’s rough buddy.

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            It’s pretty straightforward, they’ve been targeted and doxxed and harassed by anti ai trolls on Lemmy. You probably downvoted some posts in their comms, contributing to this and got banned.

            If it’s a comm that doesn’t interest you, why are you even going on about it a month later to shit talk the user?

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              why are you even going on about it a month later to shit talk the user?

              Why did I mention something relevant to the conversation? That’s your question?

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                You could have easily done so without directly linking them. That adds nothing except pushing your vendetta and directing more harassment at them.

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                  I don’t have a vendetta. I’m entirely ignorant of the context you’re describing. I got blanket banned from a series of communities by aforementioned user for (presumably) downvoting. I’m not really very interested in continuing this.

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                    Listen bro, you could have avoided this. You should have known that anytime you comment or vote on lemmy you could trigger a sensitive mod’s paranoia and be banned for that.

                    If you want to participate in Lemmy, you’re going to need to learn to read the room, figure out the single opinion that is being allowed, and stick to it.

                    It’s better than Reddit here bro, just make sure that you don’t stick out and you won’t be hammered down.

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      Sounds like you were a dick and didn’t realize and doubled down. No way to tell now.

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        I got banned from about 15 subreddits I never even knew existed once by calling out a transphobic dogwhistle, and when I inquired about the bans, the mods insinuated I was a child molester and neo-nazi.

        Reddit mods don’t need to follow any sort of logic.

        And confidently asserting someone is a dick because they got banned from a subreddit is hilarious, and should probably prompt some self-reflection.

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          There sure are cases of injust behavior by power tripping mods. That being said just presuming guilt and malice is unfair to the volunteers taking care of reddit today.

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            The appropriate way to take care of Reddit is to shut it down, sell all its assets and donate the proceeds to blind dogs, imprison every paid member of staff, put their families into foster homes (if any of them aren’t incels), bulldoze their dwellings, salt their fields, and systematically delete anything online that they ever uploaded.

            Then dunk the shareholders’ heads one by one in a bucket of horse piss, duration of dunking in proportion to the number of shares held.

            I know it’s milder than they deserve, but you gotta start somewhere.

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        I once got banned from some weird parenting subreddit I’d never visited because I said cheeseburgers aren’t kosher, some mods are just freaking weird (or bots.)

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        What a bold and insulting statement to make with absolutely no information to back it up.

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          Based on how you tell the story.

          It’s a reasonable scenario for the result and your interpretation of it.

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        You could have just not typed anything and everything and everyone would have been better off for it.