No warning, not even a “Don’t do it again email” - I had a work account, that was logged in on my works laptop, I made a comment critical of Netanyahu, and the Gaza genocide, which got that account banned from /pics. This was months ago, then I made a comment on pics, on my main account. That’s it, gone, banned.
I even have another spare account, from 2008, logged in to that, that’s banned too. FFS!
No luck on appeals, so I guess no more reddit, ever again. Anyone managed to get around this?
The only real issue I’ve seen so far is that you’ll get a thread where people don’t read the damn article and someone will say something that we all might agree with if it weren’t DIRECTLY OPPOSED TO THE ARTICLE and people jump on the bandwagon.
Getting downvotes for pointing out something that everyone SHOULD have seen is just irritating. But whatever. I move on from those threads and idiots can fuck off. heh.
(I know I’m wrong about many things, but I’m talking about literally people not reading the article and posting something stupid)
That’s where the old Slashdot initialism comes into play: RTFA
Read the Fine Article
or
Read the Fucking Article
You ain’t wrong, although it’s just hard to fight against the momentum. But I’ve found it better to try and answer what’s wrong rather than just RTFM[1] as it seems to help a little. Sometimes. But not always. It’s human nature. heh
It’s not like it’s always wrong per se… like in this case one of the witnesses to an ICE shooting was killing in a crash and lots of the comments are about how it wasn’t an accident. But the article mentioned three other people in the car including the guy’s sister - and it was reported they took a highway exit too fast. Based on the time… I’d read “drunk” between the lines, though that wasn’t mentioned - but importantly: If it was suspicious, why didn’t any of the three survivors mention anything out of the ordinary?
But I agree that it would be suspicious… if we didn’t already have people who would be inclined to speak up not saying anything was out of the ordinary.
So I get the comments - except they should have RTFM.
But that’s just one example from today. It happens a lot, but most of the time people here seem to post decently thoughtful posts. And we have very few fascists. Sooooo, that’s nice. heh
which btw is much older than /. lol, but you’re still old school for attributing it there, not disparaging you ↩︎
Naw, the poster should have included more info in their post. That was a result of their low effort.
The people responding are responding to a Lemmy post, in accordance with the info offered. They are not on whatever news site commenting in response to the an article there.
As a rule I do not click through to articles. Posts are not just ad space for media platforms. Include some relevant info in the title and post body. Then link to the article for reference.
There are many who won’t click though, but there are a few exceptions to the rule. Like linking a long academic article for discussion.
If somebody comments to the subject of a post, as it’s presented in the OP, their response is not stupid.
If the comment seems out of place because of the information left out of the OP then the fault of the confusion lies on the poster for their low effort post.