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I downloaded my entire reddit activity and have been going through it slowly, changing all my comments to links back to themselves. Today I got this:

Hello, You have been permanently banned from participating in r/funny because you broke this community's rules. You won't be able to post or comment, but you can still view and subscribe to it.

If you have a question regarding your ban, you can contact the moderator team 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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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can do better than that, I was perma-banned from all of Reddit LOL!

And for the absolute dumbest reason no less, I was banned by admins for mentioning that Elon Musk and his Boring Company made roughly 20,000 "Not a Flamethrower" devices, which actually are flamethrowers.

I was banned for stating known true facts 😂🤣

Fuck Spez

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got banned for saying I think it’s always a good idea to punch Nazis, like grandpa and LT Aldo Raine taught me.

For the record, I still think it’s a good idea and Huffman can eat shit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not here to suggest harm to anyone, but I'm not against you either.

May I suggest just letting it go and be a friend here on Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can be your friend as long as you're not a Nazi. That seems like a pretty low bar.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If 'nazi' was ever a 'bar', I just threw it out of the field into the swamp. We're cool, as long as the bears don't attack us..

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s a stupid reason for banning people, but weren’t those just propane torches? You can buy one at any hardware store and tape it to a nerf gun to make a similar toy. While they do “throw flames”, I wouldn’t really call those flamethrowers, which usually utilize liquid fuel and are actually weapons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The flame is something like an inch thick, around or maybe even over 6 inches long, and the thing actually does look similar to a Nerf gun.

You really think that kids won't get their hands on these things and do something stupid?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We were doing stupid shit with regular propane torches as kids. Doesn’t mean those were flamethrowers tho.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you know flamethrowers are actually legal in 47 out of the 50 states, last I checked anyways? They're considered as work tools to melt tar for roofing and road work and such.

But yes, any which way you spin it, it's a really stupid reason to get banned.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guess that depends on your definition of a flamethrower. To me, a flamethrower is primarily a weapon. And what you are describing is a roofing torch. Googling it now, I can’t seem to find anyone calling them “roofing flamethrowers”. Flame gun — sometimes — but never actually a flamethrower.

So the legality is probably an issue with not being specific enough with the tool/weapon differentiation. I don’t think actual flamethrowers should be legal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Have you ever used a flamethrower?

I have, to kill an ant bed next to a pine tree. Flame like 6 feet long...

California laws are different though, they literally had to title the device as "Not a Flamethrower" to get past California laws.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Any tool can be a weapon if you have the right mindset.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can beat that

I was permabanned from Reddit for posting a Google Streetview link..... of a public layby

I still dont even know why

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe you doxed some trees since people and licence plates are censored on google maps anyway?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Street numbers and signage are censored too. There was a driveway off it, but the whole location had already been shown extensively on a youtube video that was the subject of the thread and had thousands of views already, so it wasnt as if it was information that wasnt very widely available and public already

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gee what a joke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Welcome fellow Lemming.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

does this ban block you from (continuing) to change your existing comments?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not in the slightest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

To my knowledge yes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recently got a shower of notifications for new messages on old threads. Like 7-10 year old threads.

Weird thing is that these comments where posted that long ago.

Best I can tell is that they used shreddit or deleted their comments, and reddit just reinstated their original comments.

Essentially wiping your comments in a patternistic way won't do anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same for the last 4-5 days.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A lot of subs will ban you for overwriting comments with a script.