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.

    • FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      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

    • fearout@kbin.social
      8·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • fearout@kbin.social
          4·
          1 year ago

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

            • fearout@kbin.social
              3·
              1 year ago

              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.

    • waterbogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      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

        • waterbogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          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

      • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        To my knowledge, you can edit comments after being banned. When I was on Reddit, before I deleted my account, I had been banned from one subreddit I participated in pretty regularly when a new mod joined and needed to be quickly removed for abuse. I was banned mid-discussion, but I was still able to go back and edit my comments in that subreddit.

      • plistig@feddit.de
        1·
        1 year ago

        You absolutely can edit comments on subs you are banned in. Source: I did it just last month.