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View submission: Providing context to banned users
Any way we can get admins to provide more context on their bans?
We’ve had two moderators banned sitewide recently, one of them with absolutely zero information about why they were banned.
Comment by reaper527 at 25/05/2023 at 15:26 UTC
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Any way we can get admins to provide more context on their bans?
We’ve had two moderators banned sitewide recently, one of them with absolutely zero information about why they were banned.
i've had that happen to me personally. wake up on a saturday morning only to find out my account was permanently banned, but the notification doesn't provide any link to offending content. just "you've been permanently banned, and can appeal this decision".
the appeal form is limited to 500 characters, which when you don't even know what you're accused of, isn't a lot of room. to put that in context, anyone who has read this point up to this point, it's already at almost 700 characters.
fortunately my sitewide permaban got overturned (i'm assuming some reddit bot falsely flagged something), but the idea of permabanning someone without saying what it's for (at 4am on a saturday when the support team doesn't come in until monday morning) is insane.
oh, and my sub was quietly placed on "restricted" mode with no notification, so when my ban got overturned my users were unable to submit posts and i had no idea until someone pm'ed me a week or so later asking why they couldn't post.
after looking through the settings and finding that the sub was set to restricted, i fixed that then looked through the mod log. there was NO ENTRY stating the change happened.
the way reddit is run is as transparent as a brick wall.