Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content

Reddit‘s moderation policies make no sense to me. The system is just rife with moderator abuse and trying to combat it nets you a permanent sitewide ban. Every single person I spoke with (in my tech bubble) has one or multiple stories of being banned from some subreddit for ridiculous reasons. How exactly is this supposed to be a net benefit for this company that wants to make money?

However, whilst it's "safer", Reddit stopped being a place of fun years ago.

It might be incompatible to have ingroup-safe friendly places and encourage actual fun and humour. There's certainly a conflict.

It used to be where memes were made and refined. Instagram and tiktok have that now.

Worth stating the obvious but Reddit is not at all safe for work nor safe for children, it's not family friendly and is likely to harm ones mental health. Most normal non users view it as tumblr: "oh that's that porn site isn't it?".

It does remain a sometimes useful resource for some tech discussions and hobbies. Sections which were never political nor humourous.

Don't take this as justification, it's anything but that. Purely a look at their motivations and timing.

My account is permanently banned for criticizing the US's anti-trans legislation. Sent messages to admins and everything, absolutely no solution but to say goodbye to the communities I was a part of just for disagreeing with the president.