LOL! Thanks for taking one for the team.
I did not realize Reddit was that bad. I had heard stories of subreddits with conservatives being a problem, but nothing like an instant, permanent, “ZAP!”
Yeah, Reddit has been terrible for years (2016 at least) and if you post anything not far left on the more mainline larger subreddits, that is exactly what will happen. If you want more detail on that sort of thing, just browse the r/ShitPoliticsSays subreddit.
Posting on Reddit without getting banned is a true art form.
I have survived for a long time with my bag of “tricks”.
I use a form of argument that is sort of like a circle.
No individual point is all that controversial—and I always have “mainstream” Mockingbird Media links (including Wikipedia) that support each individual point.
It is only when you take all the points together you get the “heresy”—and as long as you don’t attempt to editorialize but rather let the facts and links speak for themselves you are good to go.
At some point a lefty will say: “Are you saying X” where X is the heresy.
I don’t respond—so there is no issue.
It’s not just politics... I joined reddit when I got my Surface Duo, as it was the only online forum I could find for it (Reddit has long been home to Windows Phone enthusiasts, although I had never joined before).
I then discovered the /tennis and /grammar subs — and the utter puritanism of the mods: you can’t even make a joke about grammar, much less correct any of the mods’ rather incorrect grammatical interpretations. They’re just a bunch of silly, little Czars, so I can imagine that the political content is far, far worse.
It’s everything the left says conservatives are: intolerant, ignorant, and humorless.
I’m familiar with being banned on reddit for expressing a conservative opinion. Not banned from reddit itself, but banned from subreddits simply for participating in a conservative reddit.
I wasn’t even that active in such politically conservative reddit groups. I’d be a member for a lot of months before posting a single comment only a couple sentences long and BAM, within minutes I’d receive a notice from one of the non political reddits I subscribed to that I was either banned or warned I was suspended from participating until I unsubscribed myself from the political reddit.
One such subreddit called offmychest did that to me, among many others. They told me I wasn’t kicked out. But I was suspended. In order to lift their suspension, I had to unsubscribe from the offending politically conservative group. People got fed up with such treatment that they went and created their own new subreddit called trueoffmychest. After getting the warning from offmychest, instead of going along with their dictate, I wrote then a message telling them to get lost and unsubscribed from offmychest altogether.
Here are a couple of messages I received. The one from offmychest is 6 years old. The other one is only 5 months old:
r/offmychestYou’ve been banned from participating in /r/offmychest
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[–]subreddit message via /r/offmychest[M] sent 6 years ago
You have been banned from participating in /r/offmychest. You can still view and subscribe to /r/offmychest, but you won’t be able to post or comment.
Note from the moderators:
You have been automatically banned for participating in a “safe place for people who hate Muslims”. /r/the_donald systemically harasses individuals and communities, including this one. An overwhelming majority of subreddits in this list have already been “”quarantined”” or banned by Reddit.
Content and activity you provide to the hatereddit harms this community due to Reddit’s algorithms and breaks our rules. We are willing to reverse the ban only if you will completely disengage from these hatereddits. If you will not immediately cooperate with our rules, then do not contact us; we will ignore any other response.
If you have a question regarding your ban, you can contact the moderator team for /r/offmychest by replying to this message.
Reminder from the Reddit staff: If you use another account to circumvent this subreddit ban, that will be considered a violation of the Content Policy and can result in your account being suspended from the site as a whole.
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]subreddit message via /r/JusticeServed[M] sent 5 months ago
You have been permanently banned from participating in r/JusticeServed. You can still view and subscribe to r/JusticeServed, but you won’t be able to post or comment.
Note from the moderators:
You have been banned due to participating in a subreddit that celebrates and/or glorifies biological terrorism.
This fully automated ban has been performed by a bot that cannot determine context. Appeals will be provided for good-faith users upon request. Other replies will be ignored.
If you have a question regarding your ban, you can contact the moderator team for r/JusticeServed by replying to this message.
Reminder from the Reddit staff: If you use another account to circumvent this subreddit ban, that will be considered a violation of the Content Policy and can result in your account being suspended from the site as a whole.