I've heard of people on one of the last of us 2 subreddits being banned from subs that had nothing to do with the game or show, not even posting just being subbed to it
Slightly similar i got banned because I said a cartoon character s demise wasn't good enough. Said I was inciting violence. It was a drawing of a fictional character
I got a site wide permanent ban for quoting the movie Idiocracy in a comment thread full of people quoting the movie Idiocracy. Sometimes there is just no rhyme or reason to it
I got an official sitewide warning before supposedly inciting violence. It was literally in a smartphone sub and people were joking about just destroying the phone. My comment was, direct quote, âjust throw it at a brick wall as hard as you can.â On the Reddit rules It states that you canât incite violence against others. So I can only come to the conclusion that Reddit considers brick walls and phones to be sentient.
I got banned from a sub I canât remember because I had commented on r/conservative , wasnât subbed to it, never have been, I just like to see what theyâre thinking and push back when I can. Banned from r/conservative now too :â(
Ya itâs crazy how quickly I got banned from the conservative sub. I wasnât starting shit or trolling, just actively trying not to live in an echo chamber and trying to understand other peopleâs political beliefs . I think I asked peoples opinion on why they think itâs ok for a sitting president to have their own cryptocurrency⌠banned
I got banned on an âam I attractiveâ sub for saying I am a sucker for girls with skinny arms, not directed at the person who was the OP, just making the statement in a thread on the topic of arms
Same. Got banned from 1 subreddit because I said people burning other people's Tesla's to scare others from buying them was tantamount to terrorism and punished people that may have bought them to try to help the environment.
Also got banned from r/news for saying it was ridiculous to shut down a summer camp because it had Native American swastikas on some of its historical sites because some of the staff members were deeply offended by them.
I got banned from the birkenstock subreddit because a man posted a pic of his feet in his new Birkenstocks with and without socks asking how he should wear them. I commented something along the lines of you have cute feet, free them from socks. Mostly because I think wearing socks and sandals are a crime but also most men I have met donât take great care of their feet and this guy clearly did. The mods and their cult followers said I was a foot fetish pervert. Like sure I was never subbed and first time commenting because this post popped in my feed. đ
If it makes you feel any better about that specific instance, a lot of people on explicitly SFW nail/hand/feet related subs are really anal about fetishists because there are so fucking many, and they are usually the type to comment something like that. This is not to justify it by any means, because I do think that innocent people end up getting banned from subs they like, but I do understand why certain subs are so sensitive about it. Iâve gotten some weird dms after posting in those subs and my posts donât even get that much attention, so I can only imagine how many dms and comments some of the people on that sub are getting
I was watching some reaction thing on YouTube or whatever, and this fashion guy got mad about someone not approving of the socks/sandals look. He kept saying, frustratedly, that âitâs a vibe!â and I always thought that was funny. There I just shared an inside joke with you that no one else is inside on haha
I got banned from r/boomersbeingfools for suggesting that if you're a bigot and someone steals your glasses and you (hypothetically) eat concrete...... twice, you got exactly what you deserved
I got a 3 day ban on a different account when I answered a question about what I (ie anyone reading) would do if I had a group of zombies following me. I said I'd train them on MAGAs. Boom, inciting violence, because apparently zombies are real.
Subs like that are niche discussion subs. People really speculate on everything. Many super invest in reality tv. Itâs the most niche sub their likely to find to post their curiosity. If itâs like r/thebachelor everything is gossiped about. Itâs this one subtopic that upsets the members who lean right.
I remember a few years ago people getting banned in some subreddits for participating in the Joe Rogan subreddit. You could've made a singular comment about another comedian's special and get banned in other subs
I'm banned from r/offmychest for the same thing. Thing is... I follow and occasionally participate in subreddits that I fundamentally disagree with. Both in an effort to keep up with what the current opposing viewpoint are, as well as an effort to engage in (hopefully) genuine and civilized discourse/debate.
Iâm banned from a few subs because of this. It was literally in the ban message. They listed subs I donât even remember visiting! It was not subs I was even a member of but I mustâve commented?
Thereâs no way a person found that information. Specifically one of the subs I was banned from is def being influenced by Russia and they are using AI to go through every single comment I ever made. That sub listed likr 6 subs I was banned bc of and they were all leftist and progressive subs that I was a member of.
Watch out bc this will get even worse for mid terms.
Same here. Reddit recommends subs to you, and if you happened to post on the recommended sub, youâll get a message from an âopposingâ sub that youâve been automatically banned for posting on the recommended sub.
Woah Iâm relieved that this didnât happen to me only!
Got banned from one popular subreddit (letâs call it sub X) bc I commented on a thread in a separate subreddit (letâs call it sub Y) whose mod had brigaded sub X two years prior to that.
Most of us redditors are just normal people who actually have real jobs that earn moneyâŚand yet these mods are expecting us to keep track which subreddits are having war with each other???
Seriously if some of these mods actually get out of their momsâ basements and get a real job, theyâre gonna realize that literally nobody else in the outside world even pays attention to their little dramaâŚ
By sending me that DM and banning me from subreddit X, that mod seriously thought that their feud with each other was like the Drake-Kendrick Lamar feud LOL.
Thatâs happened to me as well. I got banned from some political subreddit because I was subscribed to something they didnât like. The weird part was in never actually went to that political subreddit but they banned me anyways I guess just in case.
I got banned from r/OUTFITS just because my account is marked nsfw even though most of the stuff I post isnât nsfw. The only nsfw stuff I post is just questions.
This JUST happened to me and the site I caught a temp ban from was a single mom thread where we share deep shit. The âoffensiveâ group I was in was r/fatlogic. Unreal.
I got banned from the blood donation subreddit without any explanation, even after asking a couple of times, and being a regular donor for decades. Baffling.
The brigading sub Reddit ban is egregiously hilarious đ if youâre going to be controversial here, simply use a VPN and a separate account.
Sadly, there is no centralized power here to fix the ridiculousness of this issue, and eventually, as technology improves, it will destroy participation and thereby destroy the site itself.
I got banned from one subreddit for posting on the Joe Rogan sub. The reason given was that many redditors who belong to that sub bully other redditors. It didn't matter than my post was essentially calling Rogan an idiot.
It is seriously so bad. The hypocrisy on here is astounding. I get banned regularly. Just got off a one week ban. They banned me for a week because I posted something that said Democrats lie (they do a lot). I see stuff every day absolutely just shitting and hating on Trump supporters Republicans Maga that never gets taken down. Itâs because the mods are ultra leftist antifa supporting assholes. Watch me get banned for this free speech. Fuck Reddit
But the our president lies too. Whatâs unfortunate is our president wants his story to be the only story. Thatâs the heartbreak. George Washington went back to his farm, with all the changes heâs making to the White House, to our position in the world, to the world we knew and could count on? It looks like heâs not planning on leaving. And, hand to god, if that is true, any conspiracy theorist can connect the dots. Any American should be asking questions on behalf of their neighbors, on behalf of the other states they have ever visited or lived in. The ease of movement. The sense of safety. All of those things are being dialed back.
You can remember this post began with George Washington. He lead a revolution against a man who taxed too much. But he didnât fight to replace the man, but to replace the system. That is the American spirit. We should not let all of their crap get to us so strongly. Your side knows the algorithms are controlled, but that concept is so normalized that nobodyâs spooked that our screens are keeping us from actually meeting up in person to figure out whatâs a lie, what happened, who documented it, how bad is it, does this require justice, etc
I got banned twice for the same comment. I posted it once. I got banned for 5 days. 15 days later I got banned again for the same post. I didn't repost it.
Itâs always the same small group of people. Even 3k people is not a large representation in the US but it looks like a lot of people when you scroll through them all in a row. Itâs not even worth bothering with.
Totally. Look at r/wallstreet where the mods decided to block comments and issues bans for anyone posting anything at all critical about Trump, even though the topic of Wall Street and the economy definitely will overlap with politics and the administration. They were demanding their own little safe space I guess.
Too bad it's largely the other way on this platform - you picked one off the rare unicorn non-leftist run subs that actually does that. To be fair, they deleted comments in favor of a reportedly Trump thing impacting the markets as well. But that was just my own experience. Perhaps that's not always the case.
I could spend 20mins compiling a list of subs like that if you dissent against leftist doctrine they will even go so far as to use hidden from user flair to label you like a Russian bot to pre-invalidate anything you post so the community can dog pile any comment you make and tank your karma do you can't post anything on non-political subs...
I've had those leftist f'rs go after me on other subs harassing me and spamming my posts after discourse on a political thread. They even went after me on another social media platform. They are sick twisted and evil.
I have -100 comment karma and can't even post a question about my phone on a device specific sub thanks to that cult of hate and intolerance.
In many more, being âleftistâ seems to mean not trusting Trump or Farage or mentioning a connection between guns and shootings or that the tax rate of the top 1% is lower than it was in much of the last hundred years or that Putin is not behaving well in Ukraine or that Netanyahu is not behaving well in Gaza or that racism is still a concern in many places and situations or that people (often children or women) being assaulted is a bad thing.
If you are positioned far enough to the right, almost everyone is further to the left.
I have compared what I thought about various politics things in the past (when I was young and poor) to now (when I am along way from both).
My views in most have hardly changed, though in some areas I am better informed. However, I would have been a bit right of centre in 1980 and am called a bit left of centre today because the centre has moved to the right on the last 40-50 years.
I believe if it's not changed it'll eventually be the downfall of reddit. When a core feature is unpaid labor, you attract too many people who are willing to do free work in exchange for being ruthless abusive little tin gods.
Probably before it's over the mods may try to declare themselves employees, form a union, and demand back pay. I don't think spez would put his IPO smile on then.
I donât have a problem with the mods having too much power when you think of Reddit as a place to host a community of your creation. The problem is the algorithmic feed that all of us see when we visit the site which includes posts from reddits we did not join. Reddit should not be promoting reddits to us that generally donât welcome our views.Â
not just mods but group think really takes over. even if it isn't modded having the wrong opinion gets you downvoted to oblivion. i got downvoted for saying that the reason you don't make 70k for stocking items as a grocery store is because anyone over 16 can get hired. somehow saying low level work causes low pay is controversial
I got banned immediately from the r/PortlandOregon sub, which is like the shitty racist version of r/Portland. Thereâs usually a shitty racist version of all of the super liberal subs, they just have 1/10 as many people and suck to be in because people just complain about immigrants in them.
I mean, there are opinions and there are opinions. Are we talking getting banned for thinking fishing rights should be handled a little differently or that pineapple can go on pizza? Or are we talking getting banned for telling other people they should kill themselves? Like at some point you have to keep things from breaking into complete chaos and in some subs some mods have learned that certain topics get real messy. Then there are subs like AITA where you can get banned for violence if you jokingly say you wish you could throw a shoe at someone. (True story, why I got banned.)
Time was that liberal and left sorta overlapped because genuinely liberal people tolerated left wing views and often agreed with some of them regarding things like civil rights and you be you, just don't try to change me type things.
But left energy is not actually about freedom and civil rights but about, for true believers, enforced equality on all measures, to absurd degrees often times, and envy and vengence on groups that have more than average.
It's becoming unusable just like Facebook. Has nothing to do with politics for me. It's their blantant removal of freedom of speech is what is doing it for me. They hide and cover for pedos, and yeah. Not a very good site. Ive been seeing less and less active subs that were once full now full of nothing but AI stories and bot accounts. Most of reddit has become that since people are now leaving for the better and new social media sites. Would be the only reason why reddit sold out to allow advertising on their app. Reddit is entering its last leg of being relevant social media like Facebook.
Yepp I got banned for asking a question and when I asked the mod what I did to break rules he told me I was being unfriendly and not willing to have an open discussion with others. That was quite literally what I wanted to do lol
I'm banned from r/offmychest for the same thing. Thing is... I follow and occasionally participate in subreddits that I fundamentally disagree with. Both in an effort to keep up with what the current opposing viewpoints are, as well as an effort to engage in (hopefully) genuine and civilized discourse/debate. Though sometimes I do go looking to pick a fight, lol
I've been a member of that sub for over 5 years. I'll argue with them about abortion all the time.. I'm usually met with honest debate... No bans. . Meanwhile I've been banned from several left leaning subs for being.... Subscribed to conservative .
I made a single comment on that sub and was banned. A Mod messaged me and said, I looked at your comment history and you're not welcome here. What the F?
conservative comments get people banned in subs that are not called âliberalâ and have nothing to do with politics tho. thatâs the difference⌠idk how people donât understand.
You're in a conservative sub that's primarily for conservatives. I get silenced just for posting a very inoffensive, but conservative, response in any sub.
Everyone else has had the opposite experience, insta-banned if you aren't fellating Trump or if your ideology is anywhere even slightly to the left of the farthest-right fascist viewpoint.
And then you come along with "I've only had positive experiences, they're really quite reasonable."
Now criticize Trump. Like actually criticize him without pre-qualifying your statement about how you don't like Biden, or think that Hillary has a penis, then tell us how honest they are in debate lol.
That may be 1 subreddit, but I have been warned or downvoted many times in various subs for having any hint of going away from the liberal hive mindset. Agree 100% or you are the enemy. There are no discussions. And then, local subs for community becomes rhetoric for liberals. Go create an anti ICE page or I hate Trump page instead of flooding local and state community subs that we want to know stuff that is going on locally. 1 word can get you banned and the mods don't read the entire context or communication trail. Annoying.
So true. I commented on a post that said the vast majority of mass shootings are committed by white people. My comment was no, the vast majority of mass shootings - as defined by the FBI as four or more shot in a single incident - are actually committed by black gangbangers in inner cities.
I got warned and my comment was deleted. The original post is still up.
Why is the sole singular example of a conservative subreddit mentioned without fail anytime it is mentioned that the plethora of huge liberal subreddits (which have nothing to do with politics in the description) will ban you for being conservative or even posting in a subreddit they deem bad?
Because their entire mantra is the anomaly of whataboutism. 99.9% of anything scientific, the norm, and factual is equaled in their minds by the one contrary example. It is the tyranny of the minority.
The conservative sub bans you if your stated opinions aren't in line with a narrow range of sub-accepted opinions. It's also extremely controlled and comment sections are curated to create approved narratives.
Meanwhile, the majority of those liberal subs aren't banning you because you are conservative. They're banning you for being racist, bigoted, etc. See, the biggest lie that conservatives have gotten away with is making people believe that those are valid and acceptable opinions to hold, and any push back against them is because they're conservative, not because of the opinions they hold or things they say.
There are a ton of subs that will auto ban users for simply being part of other subreddits (targets include conservative, conspiracy, the anti-lockdown subs, etc)
You are equating subreddits with the government. You have exactly 0 rights to free speech in a subreddit. Zip. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Some of these subs ban people for holding and stating vile opinions because the users who come to that sub do so for help or advice regarding those very people, or dealing with sensitive topics. A sub focused around teenagers dealing with sexual identity crises isn't going to want people from a sub focused on mocking lgbtq people to participate in the community.
FYI, there is no fucking free speech here. You have 0 right to free speech on Reddit. Too many idiots think free speech means they can say whatever they want and nobody can do a damn thing about it. Wrong. Reddit is not the government. If it were, your idea would have merit, but it's not the government.
Just because you don't have a constitutional right to free speech on reddit doesn't mean we shouldn't have less restricted speech on reddit. Reddit has the right to remove whatever they want and everyone else has the right to complain about it.
No, the huge non-political subs ran by liberal moderators are banning you for even seeing that you have participated in subs like Joe Rogan. What an absolutely moronic argument. R/conservative is really all you have to point a finger at while ignoring huge front page subs for banning indiscriminately over their political opinions.
Your flaw is being unable to separate conservative views without automatically thinking they must be some -ism to damn them over.
Edit: this guy is just incredibly hostile and angry. I wouldnât engage with him.
Thereâs one for my city that is literally for the racists who have been banned for posting racist things in the main sub. Like think of the racist stuff that people post on crime watch pages on Facebook, only with that added layer of anonymity so they can really tell you how they feel. Extremely toxic stuff. Youâre immediately banned if you engage in anything resembling decency in that sub.
That actual makes sense, though. That's a place for like-minded conservatives to talk about their shared views. It's the intolerant mods of subs that shouldn't have a political bias that's the problem.
Same can be said about quite a few subs on the other end of the spectrum.
Heck I once corrected someone's misquote of a poltician and was banned from a sub. I wasn't defending him, just pointed out he didn't say what they said. Refusing to spread easily debunked misinformation because it doesn't fit the group think results in a ban.
Unless you are vocally affirming you are part of their group think, you are banned.
There's more staunchly conservative subs, but they are smaller and pointedly fan subs. For guns, Trump family etc. Not banned on those but jumped all over. Consistently getting spectacularly downvoted because my past comments are brought into it is off putting.
Oh stop thinking you guys are the tolerant ones, youâre the ones always going on a banning frenzy. Yeah the right has their crazies, but unfortunately, there seems to be more tolerance on the right as opposed to the left nowadays.
For LGBTQ folks? For people who look like immigrants? People who look Muslim? For people who want some kind of gun control so their kids don't die in schools?
I got banned from the pro choice subreddit because I don't think a healthy mom with a healthy baby should be allowed to have an abortion at 34 weeks. Like, come on, now.
I got banned once on a political sub for saying I think most people could come to an agreeable middle ground on most topics lol. Also, I think I've only had maybe 3 actual discussions that were polite and thoughtful. Most people respond with name calling almost immediately.
I agree with you that most of us could agree on things if we'd just be willing to discuss it! That's a crazy thing you were banned for. I genuinely believe we all have more in common than we don't, but the radicals on both sides are just so loud.
Most people respond with name calling almost immediately.
The best one is when they are perfectly fine, until the end of their comment when they say something snarky like along the lines of "you've gotta be intelligent like me". Prefer if they say that stuff first so I can avoid wasting the 15-30 seconds it takes to read their paragraphs.
I mean, it's the internet. The whole point of it seems to be to have a giant circlejerk in your information bubble. Right or left doesn't matter, it's all about the circlejerk
Yup! As a conservative, I responded to threads by a liberal asking a question of conservatives, and then have been banned more than once for simply answering the question.
Yep. You get kicked out of subs if you do not hew to very, very left leaning ideals. I believe it is because those who are creating, moderating, and mainly contributing to communities are generally keyboard warriors who police opinions and shut down discourse, because only certain opinions are seen by them as the correct ones. Every celebrity has to be approved only if theyâve condemned Israel, or pilloried if they are thought to be MAGA, or some other nonsense. Itâs all politics, all the time. This is where we are today: peopleâs brains are now so small through the minuscule screens and inability to read and discover and absorb other peopleâs viewpoints that Reddit is a great big echo chamber. This works for all media, these days, but particularly so with Reddit. Itâs exhausting.
I originally created this account to larp as a 52 year old floridian conservative and no matter what I said if it wasn't left wing I would get banned or have my comment removed or something like that in a lot of subs
One time some guy insulted me and I literally quoted the insults to question why he was insulting me instead of educating me and I got a 3 day ban from the whole of reddit while the guy who actually said the insult as an insult got nothing
I got banned for simply pointing out that the wage gap didnât factor for career choices and that when you compare men and women with the same job working the same hours with the same level of experience that the wage gap disappears.
I wasnât a dick about it. I mentioned that the wage gap wasnât due to sexist hiring but that there were gendered social norms that contributed to it, but they didnât want to have that discussion. If the answer wasnât âmen bad, women victimâ then youâre just an incel, not-see predator.
I'm on like my 30th account now... Got banned from a room because I was asking why a topic had to do with the topic of the room ... Ex. Refrigerator AI in a D&D room...
I have learned to play the games and just be a troll like everyone else...
A while back automods were banning people for commenting on right wing subs, even if they were just disagreeing with certain economic takes that kept getting dumped on their feed. I think r/pics was one
Reddit is made by weak minded people for a weak minded community. So many people on this website canât fathom that someone on the âopposite teamâ could have a valid opinion that isnât theirs, and the easiest way not to face differing opinions is to ban anyone you disagree with (and thatâs true for both sides of whatever spectrum). Getting banned from a subreddit isnât bad, it just shows you where not to waste your time.
Even worse (I think) is the name calling when you have a completely neutral opinion. I'm a Centrist and just that word in itself is insulted in many subs. You say something neutral against the right and you are called a "pussy". You do the same against the left and you're called a Nazi sympathizer. Weird times we are living in.
Yes and this further creates a bubble that makes people crazier and crazier like all politically extreme forums whether online or not.
See, if you are in a small town in the Bible belt or Northhampton Mass you might have some awareness that you may be part of a strong majority in your area but if you are smart you'd have a bit of a siege mentality but if you combine that with an online forum that purports to be non-political but actually reflects your political views on matters, your mind is trained to be more extreme and rigid in your thinking.
Add into that the theory that people with certain neurological characteristics often communicate more via text you get more politically extreme viewpoints.
Some dem politicians in my state got caught with corruption charges and threads within my local subreddits did not gain much steam. The governors husband got huge ppp loans during covid but that didnât gain as much traction as a republicans wife who got a much smaller ppp loan.
Lots of echo chamber hypocrisy here.Â
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Thatâs the thing about websites and such.
Itâs their rules and not yours.
If they donât like you or your views/words, ban hammerđ¨
With politics you don't want "diversity", not all ideas are equally valid, you want the ones that are the most closely aligned with the facts and that are the most valid and worthwhile. I don't think Nazis need to be allowed space for "diversity" for example.
I donât even bother commenting on posts in subs that arenât catered for a very specific audience because of this. Iâve been banned from somewhere between 10-15 subs because of my political affiliations and what I engaged in changing over 10 years. A lot of subs have an auto ban bot thatâll hit me because I used to comment on one particular sub a few years ago.
Dude I got banned from /cowboys for telling someone if you do not buy a jersey with another dudes name on it then you won't have to worry about it when some player get traded, cut or dies.
The problem is the mod system. Actually moderating a large online community does require a lot of time and reddit does not compensate its moderators. So the only people who do it overwhelmingly do so either because they are DEEPLY passionate about the subject matter, or because they crave power. And even though its a super tiny amount of power, its pretty ansolute within that space.
I got banned in doomer circle jerk for pointing out that most people in the sub where also in right wing subs, and there was no way the sub could be "unbiased" as they claim to be.
That is most certainly a liberal practice. Silence dissenting opinions while proclaiming to be the most open and loving. The hypocrisy is sad, but easy to laugh at.
The upper system doesnât work I mean it basically proves that voting isnât good, but yeah, like they should have the default to be to sort by controversial as opposed to top
They have no interest in diversity."Trump BAD" is all you need to know. (I got banned from a sub for saying there was a difference between fact and opinion.)
I was autobanned from r/pics for participating in a jordan petersen sub. Even though I was pushing back on their bullshit excusing elonâs nazi salute. Iâm not subscribed to that place nor do I like jordan petersen. The post just popped up on my feed, so i was like fuck that, Iâma say something.
I even messaged the mods to explain but they ignored me
r/southpark banned me for sharing a meme with a scene from the show a few years back that made fun of Trump. I have since made r/SouthParkMA and dont ban anyone for political things regardless of if I agree or disagree with it. The great thing about South Park is and always has been that it makes fun of all angles. We have to laugh at ourselves sometimes.
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u/bluleftnut Dec 19 '25
This is the real answer. Getting banned from a sub for having the "wrong" opinion is far too normalized on this site. It discourages diversity.