yeah.

I made a comment in a match thread and got the alert on the little bell icon that usually means somebody responded

But instead of a response it was an auto-message that said my comment had been removed because my account is too new and doesn’t have enough Karma to post. But this auto-message also said something like, “message the mods here” and then had a link I could click to message the mods of the World Cup sub, so that’s what I did

And all I was doing was explaining that I’m not a bot and I’ll take a picture or whatever to prove it, I’m just a dude who signed up for reddit that day just to post in the world cup match threads. That waiting days before being allowed to post isn’t the end of the world but considering the World Cup is a limited-time event, not allowing me to post for days would mean I wouldn’t be able to post in match threads for 12 or 13 of the games (at that point there were 3 or 4 a day)

So I was just asking if they could lift my ban considering the circumstances

But they came back and questioned why I had no posted anywhere else on reddit.

So I told them, “I don’t really like reddit. I don’t have any interest in posting anywhere else. I’m literally only here for the World Cup match threads”.

And I guess me telling them that reddit sucks was a trigger because the response I got back after that was super nasty

It wasn’t until later did I think, “I be the World Cup sub is a sub created by reddit admins themselves because of it’s popularity. So I bet the mods of that sub are people who work for reddit. And I just told reddit employees I think their site sucks shit, hence the nasty response”

It’s just a bit ironic because it was their chance to change my mind and prove that reddit doesn’t suck. Instead they banned my entire account and just kind of proved to me that everything bad I think about their site is not only true but actually much, much worse

I got banned for making an account just to post in the World Cup threads but the sub wouldn’t let me post because my account needed to be older and have a certain amount of karma

This “you can’t post message” came with a note saying I could message a mod and then a link to click to do just that, so I did

I explained I wasn’t a bot, I was a human, I’d prove it however they wanted, but I couldn’t really wait days to post because the World Cup is happening now and in 3 or 4 days I’d miss like 12 games

They responded saying that I had zero karma and had not made any posts…

So I replied that yeah, this is exactly true because I don’t like reddit I only signed up to post in the World Cup Match threads

I received a very nasty reply where they told me that reddit was super popular with millions of users and that it wasn’t their problem I didn’t like reddit and then my account got banned

I believe the World Cup is super popular and so it’s not just a random sub ran by random people in the world… but a sub made by reddit and moderated by reddit employees. So I just told a reddit employee I hate their site and so they banned me

It’s a pretty shit site

That’s all I want to do

If I paid for it either on disc or something like Amazon I would like to DL a copy I can keep

I’m not trying to download the summer blockbuster currently at the movies or anything. I’m not trying to just download a million movies and have a massive collection I never watch. I just want backups of the films I already paid for

Which is a small handful of films I bought so I could one day watch them with my kid when they’re a bit older

do i need to use a VPN or anything?

Feeder app for android

It’s a great tool… and it’s only getting better.

But more importantly, it’s not going away. You can hate it until the sun explodes but this technology exists now and the world isn’t just going to forget about it. Your best bet is to figure out how to use it efficiently so that you don’t end up the guy that pushes shitty AI code and instead the guy who was able to get a lot done by using AI in a meaningful way and produce good work

On an older account I got banned for saying that that Pizza-whatever comic sucks shit

It’s always on the front page and it’s Garfield level humor except worse because it’s mostly just political pandering

And the comments under those comics are always full of people who you know think they’re super informed, super intelligent, superior people that, in reality, are just mouth-breathing idiots repeating the most predictable shit and falling for the most tame political propaganda

Like when you have a friend that always talks about how crazy and wild they are and then you go out and party with them and they fall asleep at 10pm after 3 beers

Thinking back, my gut tells me the World Cup is too big to leave the sub in the hands of, “just some guy”, so the sub was probably made by someone who works at reddit and the mods are probably other reddit admins

So when I explained that I had no posted anywhere else because I hated reddit… I may have just told a reddit employee that I hate their site and that’s why they got so mad and banned me

I don’t have any proof of that but I do wonder if that is what happened

That’s what I thought

It’s not like a bot cares if it has to wait 3 days before posting

And considering the World Cup is something that only lasts a month anyway, out of all the subs to implement a waiting period, that one seems like one of the worst

“Welcome to reddit, in order to post in the World Cup match threads please miss 10 matches”

The problem I always had was that a sub would show up on the front page, and you would comment, and then get banned for some obscure rule you didn’t know because you didn’t go to that community, read the rules, and join it

It showed up on my page even though I didn’t ask for it. I commented and then the mod is mad I don’t know everything about their sub. Huh? I don’t even know what sub this is

Worse is that it’s the type of thing that a temporary ban would be just fine. Remember in the old days when you’d just catch a 3 day ban or whatever? What happened to that? Why is it, “one mistake and you’re gone forever”?

Went to reddit, made an account so I could chat in the World Cup match threads

Was told I was unable to participate because my account was too new

This message also had a link to message the mods

Click the link, message the mods, explain that I am a human and I’m just here to chat about the World Cup

Mod responds, says my account is brand new, has zero karma, and sees I’ve not once posted in any other subs

Explain to the mod that I don’t really like reddit and that I literally just made my account specifically to talk about the world cup

Got a nasty message back about how the mods don’t have time to answer my messages and that if I don’t like reddit that’s a me problem

I respond explaining that if they don’t have time to answer my messages then why is there a link to message them in the alert about being unable to post?

Muted

Refresh reddit. Red banner. My Account has been temporarily banned on reddit for 3 days for harassment

I’ve had reddit accounts in the past, but I had deleted my last one months ago. Only signed back up because of the world cup. Took maybe 30 minutes to get a sitewide ban and I only got to make one comment that didn’t even show up on the site

Anyway, that’s how I found this place. Although, the World Cup doesn’t seem that popular here :(