Was banned from the sinusitis subreddit for telling (apparently a mod) that a deviated septum absolutely can cause a sinus infection. He got upset and banned me- and even denied my ability to respond to the ban.
Petty? Maybe. But that’s the final straw for me. I just finished deleting all posts and then the account. So sick of arrogant toxic mods.
Yeah but it’s not like that can’t happen on Lemmy.
It can’t. I can create another account and post freely In that community if necessary. This mod blocked me from ever posting there under ANY account under threat of perma-ban Reddit-wide. And without any recourse. I cannot appeal-
All for proving a mod wrong.
Mods on reddit do not have that ability.
Yeah…. they absolutely do. I had an account banned from Reddit for posting in a sun that an alt account was banned in.
Yeah, no. Subreddit mods can’t do that, only the sitewide admins.
It’s easy to prove this as anyone can create a new subreddit and see exactly what functions mods get. They don’t get the ability to issue sitewide bans, only bans from their own subreddit.
The point is, they can make it happen. It even says so in the ban notification.
“Any attempt to circumvent this ban by using alt accounts will result in a sitewide ban.”
Wether they do it themselves, or report you to admins, the end result is the same.
Mods don’t have any more ability to do it than any other user. They literally just have to use the “report user” function, same as anyone else on reddit. There’s no secret special back door access to the admins that mods get. This is literally one of the things that mods complain about - they don’t have any way to deal with ban avoidance and alt accounts except to hit “report” and cross their fingers.
Bullshit. Mods ban from subreddits, and report circumvention to admins. Regular users don’t have any way of knowing if your using an alt. The point is-
That shit can’t happen here.
