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Totally agree - when people start coming out as trolls/bad actors/fascists is when they're rightly silenced
Nope. I was banned for mentioning conservative political opinions.
Sorry bud, how about you start a thread and get some community feedback? Maybe your opinion is problematic or maybe the mods made a mistake.
Idk I'm not psychic
Banned. You can’t start threads when you’re banned.
I tried asking questions about why exactly they were banning me and they wouldn’t discuss it. Communicating with me is “feeding the troll” in their mind.
It all happened in a big wave, within the last six months of my having a reddit account, and none of them would discuss it. Believe me I tried. I made appeals, I asked for explanation, it was never given. Questions like “which rule did I break? Which comment was it?” would be answered with “You have been blocked from communicating with the mods of /r/whatever”. They just hung up the phone. I was all ears because these were communities I was part of for over a decade in some cases, and they would not communicate at all.
Banning someone without explanation is a step further down the same path that contains downvoting someone’s answer to your question, without responding.