this was a while ago, so i forgot the sub, but the mod of it permabanned me for speaking russian because “he and his friends didn’t like my culture.” i ranted about this in another sub, but i quickly became shadowbanned. eventually, i was permabanned from Reddit as i apparently violated a rule and harassed a guy? I didn’t even put the guys username, nor do I remember it—it was definitely generated by Reddit tho.
of course, it’s been a while ago, so I don’t want anyone to actually do anything, but this is more of a genuine question rather than “I have his username and all his details: I want him banned.”
Officially, sure. He discriminated against Russians, and national origin is a protected group, so he’s “promoted hate”.
Realistically, this is older, reddit is biased, and they might not even look into the claim since you’re banned anyway, they might assume it’s a retaliation thing and move on. If they do look into it, they might just give them a warning.
But on paper, if that’s all that was said about why you were removed, yeah, that warrants reddit taking action.
Welcome to Lemmy!
Your best bet is making a ticket with their support team and addressing the issue clearly and concisely.
Meanwhile you get to hangout with us.
I don’t think there’s much you can do in that situation with Reddit besides create a new account.
You’d probably get ignored if you reached out to some support team and creating a new account to call out this individual would probably get you banned for either harassment or circumventing a ban. I also wouldn’t recommend the latter for ethical reasons. Shouting out specific people over a screw up can bring a disproportionate amount of attention to the situation.
Remember if you create a new account you have to jump through hoops like using a different email, VPN, and cleaning reddit cookies out of your browser. And if you don’t do that right your new account will be banned for “ban evasion” and now your original account will also be tagged for the original “offense” along with ban evasion.
Is the detection really that in-depth?
I could see them checking to see if an email is associated with a second account but using browser cookies or an IP address could cause issues for people who share a network or a computer.
I still see people using Reddit on library computers for example.
That said I’ve only heard of people getting tagged with ban evasion when they’re posting pretty blatantly as the person who just got banned.
I had been permanently banned and then reinstated. My experience was that you needed to jump through all those hoops to successfully set up a new account
Hmmm, best best would be to stop speaking Russian. Even if it doesn’t get you outright banned, it’ll lead a lot of people to thinking you’re a qwar
what’s a qwar? I’ve never heard that word
