No warning, not even a “Don’t do it again email” - I had a work account, that was logged in on my works laptop, I made a comment critical of Netanyahu, and the Gaza genocide, which got that account banned from /pics. This was months ago, then I made a comment on pics, on my main account. That’s it, gone, banned.

I even have another spare account, from 2008, logged in to that, that’s banned too. FFS!

No luck on appeals, so I guess no more reddit, ever again. Anyone managed to get around this?

  • PunnyName@lemmy.world
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    That’s where the old Slashdot initialism comes into play: RTFA

    Read the Fine Article
    or
    Read the Fucking Article

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      You ain’t wrong, although it’s just hard to fight against the momentum. But I’ve found it better to try and answer what’s wrong rather than just RTFM[1] as it seems to help a little. Sometimes. But not always. It’s human nature. heh

      It’s not like it’s always wrong per se… like in this case one of the witnesses to an ICE shooting was killing in a crash and lots of the comments are about how it wasn’t an accident. But the article mentioned three other people in the car including the guy’s sister - and it was reported they took a highway exit too fast. Based on the time… I’d read “drunk” between the lines, though that wasn’t mentioned - but importantly: If it was suspicious, why didn’t any of the three survivors mention anything out of the ordinary?

      But I agree that it would be suspicious… if we didn’t already have people who would be inclined to speak up not saying anything was out of the ordinary.

      So I get the comments - except they should have RTFM.

      But that’s just one example from today. It happens a lot, but most of the time people here seem to post decently thoughtful posts. And we have very few fascists. Sooooo, that’s nice. heh


      1. which btw is much older than /. lol, but you’re still old school for attributing it there, not disparaging you ↩︎

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        Naw, the poster should have included more info in their post. That was a result of their low effort.

        The people responding are responding to a Lemmy post, in accordance with the info offered. They are not on whatever news site commenting in response to the an article there.