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.
what's interesting is that this is explicitly against reddit's rules, but i doubt that rule has EVER been enforced.