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I'm utterly amazed at how ban-wild some communities can be. I occasionally see stories of people being banned from communities they've never posted to (reading/lurking only) simply because they also subscribe to another community that is "opposite" of the first.

Take /r/novavax_vaccine_talk for example. There was recently a member [1] there who was banned from /r/coronavirus simply for being a member. These people aren't anti-vax by any means, but because it doesn't "fit the picture" they get ousted.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/Novavax_vaccine_talk/comments/sa78h...

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This used to be a joke. "You have been banned from /r/Pyongyang."

I miss that joke. It's too bad the mod didn't create a bot to automatically actually ban people from the dead sub when called out, just for fun.

Edit: Ironically said in a comment about the overuse of banning people

Ha, it happened to me on Sunday, I posted a message like "We got our booster 1 month ago and didn't have any side-effects" in lockdownskepticism (which is not even an extreme or anti something sub) and started getting messages from pics/netflix/showerthoughts and so on that now I am automatically banned from subs that I never even posted in for posting in a sub that promotes medical misinformation. I send a message showing the message that I posted and one of the mods from one of the subs just blocked me from contacting them again. Basically my 14 year old account is useless now, because a message in a sub (regardless of content) triggered an automatic ban on most of the subs I subscribed to.

This violates the mod guidelines/TOS, but Reddit simply does not care.

They enjoy the echo-chamber they create.

I got banned from countless subreddits becuase I dared arguing with covide deniers on r/NoNewNormal. I didn't even agree with them and was always critical but that apperently doesn't matter

I got banned from around 15 popular subreddits (which I didn't read or participate anyway) for posting a comment in r/conspiracy which wasn't even related to the vax. There are thousands of cases like yours and mine and worst of all: it was fully automated. You literally posted anything into certain subreddits and you get autobanned in communities that aren't even related by any metric.

I didn't bother appealing since I don't care about those but it felt really dumb and perhaps a clear sign of Reddit's end times.

Did you get banned from anti-NoNewNormal subs for commenting in NoNewNormal? Or did the bannings come from subs like-minded to NoNewNormal because you disagreed with them?

From anti-nonewnormal subs. Its fully automated ban as far as I know

I got banned from one because a creep tagged me in one of those subs

I've never read or posted anything in them as far as I know

I'm actually kind of sympathetic to the ones trying to stop brigading though

The Chinese bots following me around for speaking about the uyghur genocide are pretty bad

>There was recently a member there who was banned from ... simply for being a member

this is false. you can't tell if another user is subscribed to another subreddit.

They probably commented in the other sub

I’ve seen multiple subreddits that block people who were active in a specific other subreddit

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