I’m not entirely sure if believe a person that writes about “the USAID cuts, which I call a ‘Silicon Valley Genocide’ in my book.” about the specific reason they were banned from X, given how many anti capitalism, left, radical Islamic and even pro Hamas accounts happily exist on the platform.
Threatening violence? Yes you’ll get banned. Otherwise nobody cares.
You have to be pretty spicy if you are getting banned from Reddit, as opposed to being modded. In the later case, you can set up your own subreddit, surely?
>You have to be pretty spicy if you are getting banned from Reddit, as opposed to being modded.
Not really. You can be banned for stating that transgender people are not the gender they identify as. They consider it “promoting hate based on identity.”
I got banned from my local subreddit for saying “as an Asian we actually tend to like cars from this brand” in a politically charged post about a certain car brand. Didn’t seem very spicy to me. “If you support this brand you’re supporting Nazis” was allowed and upvoted, of course.
On the bright side that was the impetus for me to finally stop giving my valuable attention to that site.
I wasn't banned from the whole site but I definitely was perma-banned from the local subreddit. That's how reddit works. Moderators get to moderate as they see fit, and short of some egregious terms of service violations, reddit admins won't interfere.
I was also quickly banned from participating in my local sub. It is a shame that the local subs are the ones that are the most over moderated- they are effectively isolating those in the community that don't have an "acceptable" viewpoint on any given topic
> the local subs are the ones that are the most over moderated
The local subs are by nature ghost towns, and the first people to get them rolling will often establish some weird culture that will never be uprooted.
I disagree, though. The most over-moderated are any having to do with any product or service (especially particular websites or pieces of hardware or software), liberal-left subs, or subs related to any industries that are dominated by particular companies. This happens because companies make sure to control the modding of (what they consider) their own subs.
In the case of liberal-left subs, the Democratic Party has prioritized controlling all political discussion amongst the people whose votes it feels entitled to post-2016, when H. Clinton's campaign press released that it was assigning a budget of millions to "Correct the Record" anonymously online. In that year, the party apparatus was indistinguishable from Clinton's campaign organization, and those people continue to do the same thing except the budgets have gone way up. This was also when the Democrats and the CIA/FBI started to become mutual admiration societies (which I think has worn out to a certain extent after Gaza and ICE) but you can see how the personnel and tactics diffused over the past decade until their effects became overwhelming today.
Might be better to say that the local subs are the most organically over-moderated, but even then sometimes that first little clique that gets them rolling are actually connected in their local area, and engaging in the same kind of thoughtful, collaborative, profit-motivated manipulation as above.
He said from a subreddit, not the whole site. There is a much lower and more variable threshold for banning from subreddits. Its very believable. People get banned from subreddits for being subscribed to different subreddits. Hence the “echo chamber.”
Why in the world would you say this to a stranger about the account of a completely mundane event? I've seen people banned from subreddits for e.g. mentioning the wrong brand names, and even worse, been happy that they were banned because those brands were not the subject of the subreddit (and were a constant distraction because mentioning them was something provocative and easy to post if you didn't really know anything about the subject.)
And you think that "asian people like this brand of car" is something so obviously impossible to be banned for that you would denigrate a stranger with zero evidence, under your own name. I'm honestly shocked by people's bravery sometimes; if this is a professional account, people reading it who know you might think less of you (and will never mention this to you.)
It's also funny because the statement isn't even controversial and people still get insanely ass-mad about it.
Also consumer car buying by ethnicity is tracked data and billions of dollars in investment & marketing are allocated from this metric...It's an absolutely ridiculous thing for anyone to feel a certain way about being stated.
You do know that for a few years now Reddit has an automated system that checks every comment right after posting and will delete the comment, give you a warning and the next time ban your account without any chance to appeal, right? Not subreddit-level, but side-wide. And these filters are pretty aggressive.
Few years ago, I replied to a comment asking if a crime in a news story was punishable by death. I replied that yes, the law allowed the death penalty and linked the law in the state where the crime happened. (I also added a parenthetical that I oppose the death penalty.)
I got a two week ban for inciting violence.
I imagine some automod type of tool flagged my comment, no human could have been stupid enough to think I was inciting violence.
You're proposing a fiction that there is functionally any difference. Migrating a subreddit is a large community effort and rarely if ever happens over just one ban.
If you're banned from a subreddit for X, which famously happens for often the thinnest of reasonings, you're effectively out of the online community around X. For some subreddits this even has real-world implications. You don't have to be the least bit spicy to do this. Often you just have to have commented (at all) in a different subreddit that a mod doesn't like.
Happened to me, the mod did not like the fact that I had engaged with a sub that he does not politically agree on, It was a university centric sub that I got banned from. Could never take that site seriously, ever.
I've seen this in just about every online space for 40 years now, but it is particularly bad there. I was deeply involved in several subreddits up until about '09-'10 and it slowly dawned on me just how far off the reservation the average mod was. I didn't even have any moderation issues personally, just from seeing it happen to others and the way they would approach rules and their day-to-day.
I quit the site entirely and have not looked back, but as an outsider everything I still hear about reddit moderation doesn't make my impression any more favorable. Quite the opposite.
> You have to be pretty spicy if you are getting banned from Reddit
I was banned from Reddit for saying that a (well
recognised as terrorists) terrorist group should be destroyed. That is a fairly mainstream opinion.
Other people are banned from Reddit for disagreeing with trans ideology to the same extent as today's supreme court decision. The court decision isn't particularly surprising and neither is people saying the same thing on Reddit.
...As opposed to Twitter where I was banned for expressing an opinion that wasn't in line with the site owner's personal opinions. At least with Bluesky, you can opt out of their moderation.
Twitter is the eternal September. The other places populated by the few who were discerning enough to leave are just normal online communities like we used to have before they reached internet culture war scale.
Hosting CSAM material? What? I've never seen CSAM on Bluesky, but I have seen it generated by Grok on Twitter.
I've seen plenty of people cheer for murder on Twitter as well, both from the left and right. Cheering for the killing of a protester is no better than cheering for the killing of a federal agent.
Banned from Twitter for a 2-word response:
https://bsky.app/profile/gilduran.com/post/3mky5taqg3222
Plus news organizations are punished for including links in their content.
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-links-hurt-news-publish...
I’m not entirely sure if believe a person that writes about “the USAID cuts, which I call a ‘Silicon Valley Genocide’ in my book.” about the specific reason they were banned from X, given how many anti capitalism, left, radical Islamic and even pro Hamas accounts happily exist on the platform.
Threatening violence? Yes you’ll get banned. Otherwise nobody cares.
You have to be pretty spicy if you are getting banned from Reddit, as opposed to being modded. In the later case, you can set up your own subreddit, surely?
>You have to be pretty spicy if you are getting banned from Reddit, as opposed to being modded.
Not really. You can be banned for stating that transgender people are not the gender they identify as. They consider it “promoting hate based on identity.”
Might you get banned on bluesky for saying that?
I don't mean banned from the site Reddit, I mean banned from subreddits. Go into /r/politics and post an opinion that not far left.
I got banned from my local subreddit for saying “as an Asian we actually tend to like cars from this brand” in a politically charged post about a certain car brand. Didn’t seem very spicy to me. “If you support this brand you’re supporting Nazis” was allowed and upvoted, of course.
On the bright side that was the impetus for me to finally stop giving my valuable attention to that site.
You almost certainly are lying and were not banned for saying that.
I wasn't banned from the whole site but I definitely was perma-banned from the local subreddit. That's how reddit works. Moderators get to moderate as they see fit, and short of some egregious terms of service violations, reddit admins won't interfere.
I was also quickly banned from participating in my local sub. It is a shame that the local subs are the ones that are the most over moderated- they are effectively isolating those in the community that don't have an "acceptable" viewpoint on any given topic
> the local subs are the ones that are the most over moderated
The local subs are by nature ghost towns, and the first people to get them rolling will often establish some weird culture that will never be uprooted.
I disagree, though. The most over-moderated are any having to do with any product or service (especially particular websites or pieces of hardware or software), liberal-left subs, or subs related to any industries that are dominated by particular companies. This happens because companies make sure to control the modding of (what they consider) their own subs.
In the case of liberal-left subs, the Democratic Party has prioritized controlling all political discussion amongst the people whose votes it feels entitled to post-2016, when H. Clinton's campaign press released that it was assigning a budget of millions to "Correct the Record" anonymously online. In that year, the party apparatus was indistinguishable from Clinton's campaign organization, and those people continue to do the same thing except the budgets have gone way up. This was also when the Democrats and the CIA/FBI started to become mutual admiration societies (which I think has worn out to a certain extent after Gaza and ICE) but you can see how the personnel and tactics diffused over the past decade until their effects became overwhelming today.
Might be better to say that the local subs are the most organically over-moderated, but even then sometimes that first little clique that gets them rolling are actually connected in their local area, and engaging in the same kind of thoughtful, collaborative, profit-motivated manipulation as above.
He said from a subreddit, not the whole site. There is a much lower and more variable threshold for banning from subreddits. Its very believable. People get banned from subreddits for being subscribed to different subreddits. Hence the “echo chamber.”
Why in the world would you say this to a stranger about the account of a completely mundane event? I've seen people banned from subreddits for e.g. mentioning the wrong brand names, and even worse, been happy that they were banned because those brands were not the subject of the subreddit (and were a constant distraction because mentioning them was something provocative and easy to post if you didn't really know anything about the subject.)
And you think that "asian people like this brand of car" is something so obviously impossible to be banned for that you would denigrate a stranger with zero evidence, under your own name. I'm honestly shocked by people's bravery sometimes; if this is a professional account, people reading it who know you might think less of you (and will never mention this to you.)
It's also funny because the statement isn't even controversial and people still get insanely ass-mad about it.
Also consumer car buying by ethnicity is tracked data and billions of dollars in investment & marketing are allocated from this metric...It's an absolutely ridiculous thing for anyone to feel a certain way about being stated.
You do know that for a few years now Reddit has an automated system that checks every comment right after posting and will delete the comment, give you a warning and the next time ban your account without any chance to appeal, right? Not subreddit-level, but side-wide. And these filters are pretty aggressive.
Not really.
Few years ago, I replied to a comment asking if a crime in a news story was punishable by death. I replied that yes, the law allowed the death penalty and linked the law in the state where the crime happened. (I also added a parenthetical that I oppose the death penalty.)
I got a two week ban for inciting violence.
I imagine some automod type of tool flagged my comment, no human could have been stupid enough to think I was inciting violence.
Yeah sometimes they ban for suggesting someone deserves the death penalty.
Meanwhile Luigi Mangione threads…
You really don't
You're proposing a fiction that there is functionally any difference. Migrating a subreddit is a large community effort and rarely if ever happens over just one ban.
If you're banned from a subreddit for X, which famously happens for often the thinnest of reasonings, you're effectively out of the online community around X. For some subreddits this even has real-world implications. You don't have to be the least bit spicy to do this. Often you just have to have commented (at all) in a different subreddit that a mod doesn't like.
Happened to me, the mod did not like the fact that I had engaged with a sub that he does not politically agree on, It was a university centric sub that I got banned from. Could never take that site seriously, ever.
I've seen this in just about every online space for 40 years now, but it is particularly bad there. I was deeply involved in several subreddits up until about '09-'10 and it slowly dawned on me just how far off the reservation the average mod was. I didn't even have any moderation issues personally, just from seeing it happen to others and the way they would approach rules and their day-to-day.
I quit the site entirely and have not looked back, but as an outsider everything I still hear about reddit moderation doesn't make my impression any more favorable. Quite the opposite.
> You have to be pretty spicy if you are getting banned from Reddit
I was banned from Reddit for saying that a (well recognised as terrorists) terrorist group should be destroyed. That is a fairly mainstream opinion.
Other people are banned from Reddit for disagreeing with trans ideology to the same extent as today's supreme court decision. The court decision isn't particularly surprising and neither is people saying the same thing on Reddit.
Hamas? Hezbollah?
...As opposed to Twitter where I was banned for expressing an opinion that wasn't in line with the site owner's personal opinions. At least with Bluesky, you can opt out of their moderation.
things that didn't happen for $10, Alex
Did your opinion call for the use of violence ? That is a no go zone.
Twitter is the eternal September. The other places populated by the few who were discerning enough to leave are just normal online communities like we used to have before they reached internet culture war scale.
Twitter? The CSAM and Nazi propaganda app?
Bluesky is also where you had people cheering for the assassination of federal agents and hosting CSAM material ?
When I hear someone uses bluesky a lot, I cant help but feel suspicious of them
Hosting CSAM material? What? I've never seen CSAM on Bluesky, but I have seen it generated by Grok on Twitter.
I've seen plenty of people cheer for murder on Twitter as well, both from the left and right. Cheering for the killing of a protester is no better than cheering for the killing of a federal agent.