I have been banned from subreddits for comments like that. The equivalent of "I don't think censoring GTA V is a good idea". Seriously.
Maybe the mods thought it was a bot account? Maybe they just disagreed with me. Maybe my account was too new but they didn't bother sending an explanation message? I don't know.
GTA games have been making fun of pretty much everyone. But there's this one group that you're not allowed to tell jokes about.
I'm old enough to remember how gamers laughed at people like Jack Thompson who wanted to censor and ban video games. But now people like him are moderating gaming subreddits and saying that censorship is good actually.
If it's the group I think you're talking about, you forgot your triple parentheses.
I have no idea who Jack Thompson is. Gamers are disproportionately shithead teenagers whose parents neglected to teach them that the n and t words are not the peak of comedy, so it sounds like Thompson is much needed presence.
I'm not going to hunt down the exact comments, but ones I can remember (and please pardon the lack of composure):
- Banned from /r/the_donald for saying something that wasn't even really critical of Trump, it was a fact, no ounce of opinion.. basically the mods were banning anyone who commented anything less than absolute, blind praise of Dear Leader.
- Banned from /r/clov (a penny stock subreddit) AFTER posting incredibly well-received research on the company, because I was skeptical about their earnings numbers (which did come in below expectations).
- Banned from /r/politics for saying something along the lines of "I wish Mitch McConnell would keel over already", which is absolutely a bullshit thing to get banned for, on /r/politics of all places. That's probably one of the least-"human rights" subs on Reddit. There are few places where your right to free speech is more-often challenged. Regardless of your political affiliation, I think you should be able to wish death on Trump, Biden, Obama, whatever.
- I was never banned from /r/AskWomen, but I think anyone who has been on Reddit an appreciable amount of time knows of their reputation for removing comments that have any potential to offend even one person on the planet (you can comment there if you are not a woman, they just want it off top-level and that your flair is your gender). I gave up commenting there pretty quickly. I mean I get it, I'm not a woman, but it is one of the most popular subs and you're naive if you think only women read AND comment on posts there.
- Banned from /r/robinhood for nicely, professionally (LinkedIn-appropriate) suggesting in a thread that Robinhood better-educate its users on the risks of options trading. Nowadays you can actually gamble with options in your Robinhood IRA account. That's nuts to me, and I am 100% sure it will be illegal someday. Vlad and co. really have no shame. I am an atheist, but sincerely hope Vlad Tenev goes to hell.
- When I messaged the "head mod" of /r/robinhood something like /u/CardinalNumber about the ban, I got some automated message back saying my message was reported to Reddit (I figured out it was automated because A) he replied to me immediately, and B) when I replied to that, I got the same exact message a second time. Reddit actually banned me for 3 days. It baffles me that companies like Robinhood let these guys have any association with their brand. I assume he was getting so much hate mail (he has banned A LOT of people from /r/robinhood) he just set up a program to report anyone who messages him- figures he gets a message, it's probably hostile. And as far as I know, he's still a mod there.
So at this point I was ready to perma-ban all my accounts by wishing death on Greg Abbott. I mean look, the dude is a prick. It's an opinion as close to fact as an opinion can get. It wasn't a death threat, it wasn't racist, it was the kind of comment the First Amendment was made for... we should be able to criticize public figures, especially government figures.. anything short of a death threat imo. Anyway, that's what happened. I wished death on Greg Abbott on /r/news or something like that, predictably I got hit with the perma-ban. Now I have huge swaths of my free time back haha. A double-edged sword to say the least.
I realize without the verbatim comments it's easy to read this comment and conclude I am probably being dishonest about the tone or nature of the comments, and that my bans were 100% justified. I can't disprove that notion, but for what it's worth, I wouldn't mind posting all of those comments on LinkedIn
with my full name and picture attached to it(with the exception of the wishing death on Mitch McConnell and Greg Abbott).
