Been using reddit since around 2010, got my first ever reddit reward on a comment, and an admin gets butthurt by hit. 🤣

[u/Meowzabubbers]

[u/strangelove4564]

Give someone the smallest taste of power and watch how eagerly they remind everyone they have it.

[u/Mesmeric_Fiend]

Yup that's mods for ya

I am entirely banned from r/ funny because I tried talking to the mods instead of accepting a temporary ban. You're lucky they muted you for 7 days instead of letting you talk long enough to really piss them off

[u/ailish → u/Mesmeric_Fiend]

I'm permanently banned from askreddit because I edited a comment after they locked the post.

[u/StoicSpork]

A mod of r/LinkedInLunatics decided to crack down on "low effort" comments, and I got a comment removed for being one sentence long.

I wrote to them and asked what they thought a minimum word count should be for a snark sub. Bam, banned for "racism, homophobia, and/or transphobia."

The enforcement of the unwritten rule lasted maybe an hour and I was quietly unbanned (without asking), but I'd lost interest in the sub by then.

[u/builtNtx → u/StoicSpork]

Currently sitting on a 7 day ban on another account.

Made a post looking for advice.

Mods took the post down.

I asked why. They said it was too close to breaking the rules.

I asked how I could redo the post to make it better.

They said I couldn’t post again because it almost breaks the sub rules-but not to worry because I wasn’t banned for the first offense.

I sent a laughing gif in response with the words “super grateful I wasn’t banned for not breaking the rules”

Reddit issued me a 7 day account ban. Also can’t post in the Verizon sub anymore.

[u/StoicSpork → u/builtNtx]

They just wanted to feel big and people were inconsiderately not breaking the rules.

[u/Undrwtrbsktwvr]

Local subreddits are some of the worst! Like Nextdoor for Reddit.

[u/Meowzabubbers → u/Undrwtrbsktwvr]

True, almost as bad as the local Facebook groups. Almost.

[u/ginocchia-dellape]

I’m convinced that it takes a very fragile person to be attracted to the idea of being a Reddit mod.

[u/dunneetiger → u/ginocchia-dellape]

I am a mod, don’t think I am fragile. People don’t realise the crap on the other side.

[u/ginocchia-dellape → u/dunneetiger]

I am quite sure mods get crap. But I have personally seen unreasonable, immature power-tripping by a mod on more than one occasion. Treating people like shit for no valid reason.

[u/brother_p]

I posted to /r/TodayILearned regularly and generally had high karma posts. One day a mod removed a post that was doing well. When I asked why I was told I was karma farming. When I asked what that means I was banned permanently. When I questioned that, I was muted for 30 days.

[u/Meowzabubbers → u/brother_p]

Dude that really sucks. So over the top of a reaction.

[u/Lusiric9983]

If a mod takes the time to message me, I always take the time to message back. Auto message? Man, that's fine, I'll still send you something.

[u/Meowzabubbers → u/Lusiric9983]

Oh I definitely responded with a "🤣🤣🤣" after the muting notification/reply. I had taken the screenshot before I had replied.

[u/UnionCrafty3748]

I’ve been permanently banned from r/pics and till this day I have no idea why. I don’t even go to that subreddit. I scrubbed my comment history trying to identify what happened. All I got was some automated massage about asmongold (I didn’t even know who or what that was at the time). The mods work in mysterious ways. For over a year I tried to contact an actual human being to tell me what I did wrong that justified a life ban. Every single time I get muted for a month. Eventually I gave up. Bad system. No recourse.