Sorry if this was discussed over the weekend when I was generally off the grid. I think this is a good forum for the discussion, at least:
Lately, subscribers to /r/NoNewNormal have been getting perma bans from a bunch of "default" / Popular subreddits, just for the mere fact of posting in NNN. The ban messages are a template, and all say the same thing. Here's one of the many I received just today:
You have been permanently banned from participating in r/starterpacks. You can still view and subscribe to r/starterpacks, but you won't be able to post or comment.
Note from the moderators:
You have been banned forparticipating in r/nonewnormal, which is known for being a disease vector to other subreddits and society.
This action was performed by a bot which does not check the context of your comment.
To be unbanned respond to this message with a promise to avoid that subreddit.
Any other response will be ignored and is consent for us to mute you.
If you have a question regarding your ban, you can contact the moderator team for r/starterpacks 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.
Clearly the admins are on board with this.
I consider myself an extremely respectful person. I was active on T_D from 2015 and never even temp-banned from anywhere (even /r/politics, where I think I still have a net-positive rating). I fully subscribe to the idea that discussions today prevent confrontation later, and I'm doing whatever I can to have a dialogue with people.
But more and more, I find myself just simply pre-emptively banned from places for wrongthink.
It's just going to get worse from here, too.
Half-KIA and I think TIA were in the actual first group (though it's possible that I simply wasn't aware of any before Gamergate started.) Mods/admins were pissed that their communities didn't like an insignificant slut sleeping with game journalists (while in a relationship) for positive coverage of her 'game' and wanted to discuss it. So they banned discussion, deleted entire threads worth of comments (we're talking tens to hundreds of thousands of comments), and then banned people that participated in communities that allowed discussion of what was (in the grand scheme of things) relatively minor journalistic disintegrity.