I have mentioned in this group before that I had a 10 year old account with high karma totals that was permanently banned site wide 2 years ago. I had posted an article that conflicted with the reddit world view from a “source” that reddit allowed for linked posts. Anyway not to go into all that again here’s what happened.

I had read the discussions in this group regarding the changes at X and Meta. The shift is that all opinions are allowed except calling for violence or things obviously not true like the Sun rises in the West.

So I made another “appeal” to reddit with the perfunctory pledge not to violate their rules, which I won’t.

Next day I was reinstated. Are they shifting like X and Meta? Don’t know but if not it was a strange coincidence.

Though I prefer Lemmy I still enjoy the NON political reddit groups like for books, golf, etc. About a month ago I messaged the Lemmy Admins to appoint me a mod to the Lemmy “golf” group since it had been dormant for over a year. I was appointed a mod there. I started posting golf related things but with almost zero interaction from anyone on Lemmy. I realize that Lemmy has few active users. I read something a few weeks ago that actually estimated that there were only 1K of us.

I wish we could turn that around here and revive some of these groups.

  • @GerardShah@lemmy.world
    1•3 months ago

    Glad to hear about your positive outcome! Could you please describe in more detail how did you contact them and what did you say? Is there a restriction on the length of the message?

    • @Mickey7@lemmy.worldOP
      2•3 months ago

      There is definitely a restriction on the length of the message that you can sent. You first need to find the link specifically for appealing a ban. Messaging the Admins in general will get you no where. I simply said that I had an account that was 10 years old. (they could see the huge karma total that I had proving my account wasn’t a throw away) I have been suspended for 2 years. I broke the rules. I will abide by the rules going forward and please reinstate me.

        • @Mickey7@lemmy.worldOP
          2•3 months ago

          No. I don’t think so. When I was initially banned I appealed and was rejected. Then I tried it again 6 months after the ban. Denied again. Then I forgot about it but all the talk of X and Meta changing the way that they handled things got me to thinking why not try it again. I have no idea if Reddit is changing their policy regarding permeant bans or if I just got lucky. I also think it helped in that I didn’t jump through all the hoops to create another account, which is of course against the rules…and the first thing that they look at when you are appealing.

          • @GerardShah@lemmy.world
            2•3 months ago

            Interesting, because when i go to the link for appealing the ban, it says that i have already appealed and wont let me do it again. Maybe I will have to give it some time, or they have closed the possibility for more appeals?

            • @Mickey7@lemmy.worldOP
              2•3 months ago

              I actually had to google reddit appeal to finally find the correct link. I was not able to get the link via my banned account. Do a search for reddit permeant ban and you should eventually find the link. Then just type in your reddit user name into the form