Permabanned from a longtime account on my primary subreddit, and given an administrative sitewide temp ban for a few days for something that is stupid.
If you've heard of the Matt Araiza situation, you'll probably have an idea of how this happened. I was asking if we had known anything more about the girl who had lied about the whole thing or if she was getting off scot free. Permabanned for doxing (or attempted doxing, something stupid). This was buried deep on a thread about it, with a couple upvotes, and I got permabanned for it. When I asked why they were protecting the identity of a liar willing to ruin someone's life, boom this morning hit with a temp ban across the entire site. Oh well. My account was definitely not targeted for any other reason because I avoid politics entirely on that stupid site, so here I am.
(All the girls information, her face and name are online and published by papers that can be hit with libel, as I would later learn)
There is something to be said for not letting them maintain a perfect echo chamber. But yes, I largely agree. Do not go to reddit assuming good faith interactions or for the level of discourse to be what it was 10 years ago. Only go there if you are completely aware you are behind enemy lines to either promote alternatives or disrupt them.
Reddit did bungle it big time when they updated the block feature to allow random users to censor threads. Assuming that's what happened, that's on the admins not the moderators.