I was banned from the Anti-Work subreddit for questioning why someone in a picket line was dressed like the wish .com version of Che Guevara. He looked ridiculous, nobody else was dressed up, and they were picketing a fucking Starbucks.

I thought it was just a funny observation but the mods banned me after it got upvoted to top comment on the post lol

An /r/Conservative post popped up on /r/All announcing that they would be banning anyone who shares a differing opinion, and bullshit like that. At some point in the post it said they didn’t know what to call that type of community. So I quoted that bit and said,

“It’s called an echo chamber. You are admitting that this is an echo chamber and is not meant for real discourse or discussion.”

I was banned within 3 minutes.

I was banned from /r/Gaming for simply giving the exact version number .BIN file to use for PCSX in a thread asking on how to get PCSX working. I don’t know how their no link to piracy rule applies, but that’s what they used against me. The rest of the comments helping and the post itself should have also been removed and banned though, as they wanted to interpret their rules to mean any discussion of piracy or emulation. Up until the split, I had just been posting with an alt account to get around the ban.

I was banned (and later reversed) from the entire site just a month before the API bullshit announcement for making a joke about punching Nazis on a thread that was a joke about punching Nazis. I wasn’t the only one, either. That entire thread got absolutely nuked by some pissed off Nazi admin. It took a week of spamming appeals before it was overturned by an admin who actually can understand context.

I was banned from… Uh… I forget the exact name of the subreddit. It was one of the Feminism subs, but it was consistently full of misandrists not actual feminists. I pointed out their hypocrisy on a thread and was promptly banned.

I was banned from /r/furry_irl for posting a trans related joke on a trans related post. The joke came directly from my sister, who is herself trans and heard the joke in her trans support group. The mods simply went “oh he’s pulling the ‘but I have black friends’ bullshit” and then disabled me from even communicating with the mod team, labeling me a transphobe.

I got permabanned as “antisemitic” for criticizing Israeli politics. That this is a quite common tool used by the Israeli government to shut down any criticism of their actions is nothing new. But to see this applied in a subreddit actually surprised me.

I was banned from /r/politics for posting the famous Kennedy quote, “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

The ban reason? “Glorifying violence.”

I mean, I do glorify violence, I just wasn’t doing so at that exact moment.

I get banned from Facebook groups all the time for dumb reasons. Facebook group mods and admins have a God complex or something.

r/ich_iel (German, superior Version of r/me_irl) once raided r/funny.

Yeah, I fell in that war.

I got permabanned for “report abuse”.

I was reporting a series of blatantly obvious spam bot accounts like I normally do. Nothing fundamentally changed about my behavior. I had warnings in the past for “brigading” because I got into a row with some power tripping mods once, and I guess that was enough to get the permanent hammer. Reddit just had enough of me messing with their free content stream.

Filed an appeal. Never, ever got a response, not even an denial message. Lmfao.

I was banned from r/whitepeopletwitter for following r/conservative then I was banned from both r/conservative and r/libertarian for suggesting that Biden knew about politics. Not that I agreed with him on anything, just that he had an above average understanding of how politics works

@1Transient During a time where I temporarily used Reddit (around 2018), I would repost my memes from Instagram to some subreddits. One of the mods got upset at the Instagram watermark and banned me from the subreddit. Pretty hypocritical considering some of that subreddit’s most upvoted posts were Twitter screenshots.

I was shadow banned from r/soccer a few months ago and I still don’t know why. To be fair, I didn’t even try to contact the mods about it, that sub is awfully toxic anyway.

I was permanently suspended from Reddit as a whole for hate speech because in an /r/hockeyplayers “chirp” thread a guy posted a picture of his white skates and I asked if his husband had a matching pair.

It was insensitive, but that’s what chirp threads are for.

I got permabanned from /r/askhistorians for posting a link to reveddit, a site where you could view deleted posts. I did that to inform people that they could use that site to see all the posts that the mods remove (in that subreddit they remove any post that does not provide references).

I thought that the worst case would be that my post would get deleted and I would get a warning. No, they just permabanned me.

I was mad so I appealed telling them that it’s wrong to permaban people for reasons like this. I understand permaban for offensive content. But I still don’t understand their action.

Discussing with them proved that while one of them one reasonable and understanding, the other was completely mad about my action and wanted me to be almost on my knees pleading to remove the permaban. Eventually they “did a vote” and I stayed permabanned. I tried again one year later to no avail - I figured, maybe one year later they would get over it. Nope.

I just stopped checking and recommending /r/askhistorians ever since.

I once created a community about sharing IPTV subscription tutorials and Firestick-related tutorials to solve the problem. Because some text and content were said to be due to copyright issues, banned them, causing me to lose some followers. I was sad for a long time because I really worked hard in this community. It takes me a long time to run it almost every day. It has also helped many sports fans and IPTV users solve related problems. Later, I re-created some groups to share my tutorial content, (r/ IviewHDIPTVservice.r /SomeIPTVservices.r/OTV_IPTV) is currently stable. It feels like running a Reddit account takes too much time and is too restrictive! All kinds of teasing… Sometimes it just seems like a joke!

Not me, but someone on r/TrashTaste got permanently banned from Reddit for posting a tweet.

For context, Trash Taste is a podcast run by anime YouTubers. They had Chris Broad (a.k.a. Abroad in Japan) as a guest and it’s safe to say, they’re very friendly with each other so of course they’d share content involving and about Chris there. Someone decided to share Chris’ frustrated tweet about North Korea throwing missiles in Japanese waters, jokingly suggesting that the Japanese military get some “Patriot missiles” (which I’ve been told are purely defensive). For the record, this isn’t the first time NK has done this, and it’s not the first time Chris has been openly frustrated at it.

This ban is ridiculous - it’s not like someone is actually being threatened. It’s just some grumpy British man living in Japan venting his frustrations over a dictatorship trying to bomb the country he’s living in.

The tweet, and the ban image I found, are below.

I created r/keitruck and r/Seattlegay using two separate accounts obviously. Somewhere during the pandemic, I started getting a ton of unreachable content warnings. Like I couldn’t tell where they were coming from or from who. So I couldn’t actually delete any comment that might have offended someone. I would see one or two per hour. One day it was one every few minutes. When I woke up the next day, all of my accounts were permanently banned. I couldn’t even create a new account. They banned by actual hardware address or something.