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Reddit banned Paul McCartney over phone-free concert photos post in their subreddit
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this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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How is getting banned for the mildest takes relevant for posting a link to a drop box with concert images?
Are you actively ignoring the similarities between these instances or do you genuinely not understand that they’re both examples of strange and excessive moderation?
To me this seems like an auto mod fuck up that is quite reasonable and an embarrassing delay of manual review coupled with a classic dogpile.
If it gets manually reviewed it’ll only be because this dogpile happened. Lots of people get banned like this with no recourse because they aren’t Paul McCartney
Probably true. Moderation and heavy handedness shouldnt go hand in hand. And permanent bans are stupid as people lose their legacy and incentive to be nice and constructive when losing their history.
"manual review" ...
...rriiiiigghht...
There is zero benefit to banning celebrities and taking the fallout. Why would they? If they are profit driven they wouldn't. Even if they were cartoonishly evil they only hurt themselves.
...you're almost there, keep thinking just a little longer...
Maybe the mods try to sabotage the reddit stock by creating drama and a general mess. But that's paranoid reasoning.
I'm not here for mental gymnastics just to convince myself reddit doesn't suck.
It's a shit platform. It used to be good, but they sold out. Now it's a publicly traded corporation with a for-profit motive and a business model based on ad revenue. It's been corrupted, and it will never again be what it was.
Sorry if the truth is too much for you to handle.
The topic is reddit overzealously banning people. People commented with their experiences being banned by overzealous reddit mods and admins.
If you don't like it, you can go somewhere else. That's how the threadiverse works. You don't have to be here if you don't like the conversation, but you don't get to tell people what not to post or comment.
If that's how you want to be, go back to your beloved reddit where you can be a mod and ban people for stupid reasons. No one here will miss you.