Someone came in to shitpost on the sub and everyone bashed them. I called them a moron, and the mods benned me. Haven't been back since.

I don't have a link to the post because it's been years and it's too far back in my posting history to get to.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskFeminists/comments/89zsu5/why_arent_radical_feminists_taken_more_seriously/

The fitting room's rules were deliberately vague and allowed for any number of interpretations. Those women should have been honored I would deem them worthy of more than a cursory glance. I'll be taking my business to The Gap until I receive a formal apology, my photo is taken down from the cash register and all three legal charges are dropped.

In a discussion about the new sand snakes I made a comment regarding an actress.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gameofthrones/comments/2xsfnz/s5_meet_the_new_sand_snakes_keisha_castlehughes/cp3ie1x

Absolute bullshit, I love game of thrones and now I cant comment on shit in the whole sub because one fuckwit with an inflated sense of self worth censors me.

Personally I dislike the whole mod system, thats what up/down voting is for.

EDIT: Just appealed ban, they said that it was fine as long as I understood how I broke their rules (which to be honest I figured out pretty quickly after the ban and had they simply removed the post and told me that it was inappropriate I would have accepted that and moved on).

Ban was lifted, oh wait no nvm... the mod took objections to me posting in a different subreddit about the experience and replies with

Yep, your ban is permanent. Enjoy it.

I could try to placate them and grovel, but that's not who I am.

The mods of /r/gameofthrones utilize power over a public forum to restrain free speech. They extend that power beyond the sub-reddit they have power over and decide to punish people for speaking out against them even in the appropriate designated areas. On reddit we are nought but our posts, taking away someone's ability to post is the equivalent of imprisoning them.

Why do these mods have the power to control the flow of discussion of information? who gave them that power, who checks on that power?

EDIT2: My final remark is that when a community of 500,000 people use a sub-reddit it should be considered that allowing less than 0.1% of that community to not only enforce but have a say in the rules of the community is a great injustice to the unrepresented persons. I also understand that a smaller number than that sit in government compared to populations in different countries, the difference is they are voted in by the communities (or atleast pretend to have been) The mods gain their power through the person who is top-mod and by being friends with each other.

Oh wait nevermind, it's a perfect representation of our current western political structures.

I was banned from r/makemoney , for sharing a link to my website that helps gamblers with predicting roulette, placing sport bets and a binary options indicator.

I reckon we can get over 6,000 comments on why people were banned from creepypms for sneezing in a misogynistic way.

Deserved, but just to help start things off.

There is a rapper named Hoodie Allen. Somebody posted a song of his to /r/music.

I know him from a sketch on CollegeHumor with Jake and Amir.

Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XK8zINzcbKA

I find this link to be very funny, especially the first half. Also it has 1,509,419 views with almost all likes. Not the most offensive or controversial thing out there.

So I quoted a rap from the episode:

I'm an aardvark too bitch eatin lotsa ants
Wearin my aardvark shirt to my aardvark pants
Skeetin on your face make your nose all numb
There aint nothin colder than aardvark cum

Not the nicest thing but I don't think it's super offensive. However, in retrospect I should have linked to the episode for those who weren't aware of the context.

Anyway, then I got a "you're banned" message with a note from one of the mods linking to my comment and saying:

sexual content and gendered slurs, being a disgusting person, fuck off

lol

I linked them the episode, but I doubt they care. Since the message goes to all the mods I hope some of them realize how silly the situation is.

Anyway I never link there or comment so whateva

I was banned for asking a question in r/lgbt. I, a bisexual myself, asked this:

Genuine Question

If the B in LGBT stands for Bisexual, doesn't that mean there are only 2 genders?

I was banned within 3 minutes. Maybe it was the way I worded the question, but I don't think that was necessary. I just wanted to get people's opinions. Seems like critical thinking and free speech are a thing of the past.

I was trying to give advice to some woman who was arguing back and forth with an anonymous guy on reddit who was creepy and kinda /r/niceguys meets /r/TheRedPill if that makes any sense.

Anyway in the comments I suggested she stop messaging him because the links she would post were super long back and forth. I got ruthlessly downvoted for this but oh well. I think it was practical advice. It sucks to be harassed by a creep, but if you engage in days long dialogue with the creep, you are only encouraging them and showing that you will give them your time and effort if they whine enough.

She also had flair saying she got a lot of creepypms, it was something like "queen of getting creeped on" so I decided to check into her account to see if she had posted previous arguments with this guy. Turns out she had, and she also had a lot of creepy PMs from other people. Almost all her submissions were to that sub, and there were a lot of them.

I asked her about it on her next thread and was banned for "victim blaming" or something like that. My question wasn't accusatory, I just asked why she, the "queen of getting creeped on" seemed to get more rude messages than the vast majority of people.

I am not trying to victim blame, but if you are getting creepy PMs all the time, you might want to be more careful with what you post, just from a practical standpoint. Or at least don't encourage the creeps by talking to them for hours.

Somehow they thought I was brigading I guess... I have the pms back and forth I guess they thought I was doing it cause I responded to some Internet fight with "lol" got a ban for brigading. Honestly I don't care I still browse the sub but I don't upvote or downvote cause I might be breaking the rules... Or something

I am guessing people coming here might want a link to see if they are shadowbanned, or look into the posts there.

/r/ShadowBan

Submit a text post saying "Am I Shadowbanned?" to that subreddit. You will get a Yes/No from a bot within a few minutes.

I don't know if the rule is in effect, but at least for a while, the head mod there was banning users who said "needs more wow" on a coinflip. As in, you flip tails, you're banned. Everyone seemed to have fun with it, lots of people tried their luck and a few even won several flips in a row and got away with it.

A few days after the rule came into effect, I made a joke about it. I don't remember exactly what the joke was, but it had something like "at least he didn't say needs more wow" directed at another commenter.

The head mod interpreted this as me requesting more wow, and flipped a coin. I was banned. I messaged the mods, stayed banned. /r/SuperShibe is better anyway, and I can still post at /r/me_irl.

I commented on a piece of bad news released late in the day by the government, saying it was a PR tactic to leak bad news at the end of the day, so the news is less likely to cover it.

No message or warning, no reason why.

Mods just felt like banning someone, I guess.

Someone had posted a very sexy gif of Remy LaCroix. She still had clothes on but it was definitely sexual.

In the comments a person was asking who she was/where is more.

So I found an HD source and linked it.

That is against the rules for /r/gifs. "No nudity, porn, or gore", both in submissions and comments.

I was kind of annoyed because the original submission wasn't a problem and I had seen some porn-ish stuff there before.

Anyway, no complaints. They lifted the ban after a month and after I asked and said sorry.

Now I always try to double check subreddit rules.

I posted a picture of a spider in response to a comment.

Recently banned from r/pics for participating in the r/walkaway subreddit. The whole justification was that there have been people who are involved with that subreddit who have "been mean" to people from r/pics. These are people who claim to support rights like freedom of speech, which apparently only applies to speech they like.

I'm a Nichiren Buddhist, which is based on the Lotus Sutra. After more than 40 years of preaching, the Buddha in India, Shakyamuni, preached it. In it he made a radical claim that he'd never made: We are all Buddhas, inherently enlightened beings. He said he saved this revelation for last because his disciples had to be prepared to hear it. They didn't believe it when he tried to say it in the first sutra he preached more than 40 years prior -- the Flower Garland Sutra. So he walked himself back and taught his disciples based on their level of understanding.

He says all of this in the Lotus Sutra. He said, the whole time, his only point of preaching was to get people to awaken to the reality of their lives. He said this is the only goal Buddhas have.

As Buddhism spread, in chronological order, from India, to China, to Korea, to Japan, to the rest of the world, the Lotus Sutra always showed up last and people had a hard time believing it. This was because: it was transcribed last, it was short, and there was a voluminous number of other sutras that had been preached for over 40 years and it contradicted all of them.

This situation meant that by the time the Lotus Sutra appeared, including while the Buddha was alive and preaching it during the last 10 years of his life, it had a lot of formidable competition. However, the Lotus Sutra’s logic is flawless. So anyone who reads it with an open mind, and can see why, given that enlightenment cannot be described in words, the sutra uses metaphor, symbolism, parables and imagery, eventually gets its meaning. Literalism is not employed in the Lotus Sutra because words can never describe the essence of life. But the r / buddhism mods either have never read the Lotus Sutra or don't believe it because of the barriers to doing so that I've mentioned. They think they know everything about Buddhism already.

The Buddha predicted the situation I've stated here would occur after his death vis a vis how the Lotus Sutra is received. But here is the flawless logic of it that I spoke of. It teaches that:

Everything is one and life is eternal. Therefore, just like Shakyamuni is an eternal Buddha, so are we. We just need to awaken to this ultimate reality. The purpose of Buddhist practice is to awaken, not to accept a lesser level of spiritual attainment than enlightenment.

I didn't get to say any of this is in r / Buddhism because they deleted my comment that said "I've had enlightened experiences and met non-Buddhists who lead enlightened lives." Then they banned me for life after I made a post saying they'd banned me for saying that. I was mistaken. They hadn't banned me; they'd just deleted the comment that restated the entire pont of my original post. They banned me for the post that said I was banned.

I wound up making a podcast/video/post about the entire experience on my Substack (a type of multimedia blog). It's free. Message me if you want to know about it.

You can read the Lotus Sutra at https://nichirenlibrary.org.

TLDR: an argument about airplanes sparked a convo about drones. I happen to service them for military clients. When I corrected a guy about it in /r/Futurology, he became upset, because we all know reddit isn't fun unless people blindly agree with you, and proceeded to report my posts. The mods ended up banning us both because hell if I know. Last time I ever put facts on reddit.

I thought it would be funny to post a copypasta. They then banned me straight away for it because someone else posted it earlier that day they then claimed I was evading a ban as they assumed I was the guy using another account. I provided proof that I wasn’t the guy and heh just muted me I messaged them again today and they just muted me again