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"If you raise the fucking hot dog, I will kill you. Figure it out."

In quotes and attributed, in a conversation about the Costco hot dog. But apparently I'm threatening violence. Lol

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[–] _____@lemm.ee 13 points 14 hours ago

These reddit ban appeals are just power trips for the mods. do not engage with this feature.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 115 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

It was a bot that automatically banned you

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 15 points 15 hours ago

Good thing they can blame bots for this shit.

Throws up hands “It was the bots, nothing bad we did.” Just like when AI fucks things up and companies won’t take responsibility. Because we didn’t do anything bad 🤷

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 67 points 20 hours ago

There are absolutely bots doing this sort of thing. Years ago when I still had an account there I got flagged for "promoting suicide" because I explained that a stalemate in a chess game can happen because "the king is not allowed to commit suicide"

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 48 points 20 hours ago

Also a bot that will ignore the explanation and reject the request

[–] Kookie215@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It probably is, the issue is that the appeal process doesn't work and is seemingly also run by bots.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 5 points 18 hours ago

end of the day these big tech companies need us in ways we don't need them

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 70 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, I got a 7-day ban for saying Luigi Mangione probably shouldn't go to prison for what he did because they said I was inciting violence. They lifted it on appeal, but not before hitting me with a perma-ban for some bullshit about circumventing the ban with other accounts (I've had exactly one account on reddit in the ~14 years I've been there), so I decided they were getting a bit too fashy for my taste and started looking for greener pastures.

[–] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 26 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

See, your mistake was not having hundreds of disposable accounts. 🤣

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

Clearly. :P

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Reddit loves Nazis.

[–] Not_Dav3@lemmy.world 35 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I got a warning for saying "I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye" in response to someone saying Spider-Man 3 was bad. 😂 I made an appeal and it was rescinded almost immediately, but still.

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

Lmao. And they say comedy is dead.

[–] softcat@lemmy.ca 47 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

"CEO" and "kill" going in the same sentence is ungood.

[–] abies_exarchia@lemm.ee 12 points 17 hours ago

Doubleplusungood, even

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 28 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

People really need to get the fuck off of reddit.

Redditors are going to end up on !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

We're coming here, but slowly. We each have our tipping point and for many who just scroll mindlessly it's not any worse than insta/tiktok/Facebook. The commenter crowd has largely moved over.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 6 points 17 hours ago

That's a good point different people use it in different ways.

[–] Aux@feddit.uk 1 points 13 hours ago

Mods are power tripping everywhere.

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 37 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Reminds me when I submitted an appeal to Imgur.

My post got taken down for racism.

I send an appeal that it was, in fact, not racism and if it is to please show me where the racism is.

“Thank you for contacting us. Your post got removed because of racism because it had racism in it.”

Told them to go fuck them selves.

Never got an answer.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I got a temporary ban once for racism - for a comment I made about a nonexistent race.

[–] ijedi1234@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

Your comments about "bulbheads" regarding the Xenomorph species is not appreciated.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

You can tell that it's an aspen tree because of the way it is

[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 17 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It's because they've given an LLM the ability to ban for "promoting or threatning violence", and it's terrible. It basically sees two "bad" words on one line and send out a ban. It seems like an attempt at making people use words like "unalive" and things like that.

Interestingly it doesn't work if you spread it across more than one line(the haiku and similar bots don't get banned after quoting comments that get banned).

[–] midori_matcha@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

Won't somebody please think of the advertisers??

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago

I can't be the only one thinking of a lot of Reddit's mods as Jimmy Wichard from King of the Hill, can I?

[–] Kookie215@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I would bet $10,000 that you get a notification saying "we've reviewed your appeal and decided the ban will stay in place"

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago

Unapologetic enshittification is how the second quarter of this century will begrudgingly be remembered.

[–] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

There are those who chose to control by "interpreting" the rules as needed. These people will use a different interpretation as needed to exert any control they can.

They're being right is less important than YOU'RE being wrong

[–] Scabz@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

I just got permanently banned from Reddit at the end of a 2 day ban. I haven't even posted or commented anything yet. Reddit is dead.

[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Now try this: mass edit all of your comments to be that post and watch how quickly you get banned from every subreddit, no appeal.

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com -5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I don't see how it's terribly surprising that the death threat you quoted got lumped in with the earnest death threats.

[–] superniceperson@sh.itjust.works 12 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Any human moderator would not confuse the two. Any human reporting in good faith would not confuse the two.

It sounds like this was llm backed auto moderation, which cannot understand context, which will kill communities and platforms quicker than a hot dog Loving ceo having to pay slightly more.

[–] yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 hours ago

Quick, someone make a Lemmy instance called Scunthorpe. Should keep out the trash level of LLMs that seem to shit things up.

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com -1 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, the firehose ends up blasting both directions. Bot generated content leads to bot generated rule enforcement. Still nothing all that surprising to me.