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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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I have no input about the original ban, but I was curious and glanced at your profile:
That's not how credit scores and credit cards work. You would already need an excellent credit score to get the $10k limit in the first place, but on top of that having a credit line open in the specific form of a consumer credit card, charging a lot to it, and then consistently paying it off, is pretty much the textbook way to get an excellent credit score. I can't off the top of my head think of a way to get a better one. The reason is that that specific way winds up funneling a pretty significant amount of money to the credit card companies every month, but exposing them to very little risk, and that's precisely their favorite thing in the world.
Why are you lying about this unimportant point? Like I say, it's not related to anything about the original ban, but it's a weird thing to lie about.
You're right in that my credit score was decent enough to get that credit limit, but I've only been charging <$1000 a month (usually <$300) on it and my credit score has only dropped since. I was surprised by the drop and requested a detailed credit report but found no accounts open/delinquent that would indicate someone destroying my credit.
You put everything on the credit card, but also, your usual expenses on the credit card are <$300 per month?
Also why'd you say the score was now dogshit, if all you meant was that it dropped by the tiny amount that the situation you described would cause it to drop (even if your general expenses had dropped to usually <$300 per month for some reason)?
It might seem kind of unrelated, but I have to say I'm a little bit leaning towards whatever judgement it was that led to someone banning you, just because of this situation. It seems kind of plausible that you might have other weird posting behaviors if you tend to casually lie about random things... but also I can't really say I understand it fully since I don't understand the reason for the lie really. It's just such a weird thing to lie about. It is objectively impossible for what you said to be true, though...
My living expenses are low and some of the larger transactions are paid direct from my bank account to avoid credit card fees. My score didn't drop a tiny amount, it dropped by about 100 points, which is why I requested a detailed credit report. Why would I lie about this?
So from "excellent" to "still excellent, but lower." Mine was high 700s at one point and I couldn't get above a $4k limit and I tried.
You're not from the US, are you.
Which is fine, but why would you be pretending to be? Why not just say "I'm not really familiar with what normal living expenses and credit limits are in the US, or how the credit and banking system works there, because I don't live there and never have, which is why I never made any kind of post about how my US credit score is right now"?
Semi-expecting for me to get some kind of heat from the moderators for this line of inquiry BTW lol. That is honestly the only explanation I can see for it, though. Maybe I am wrong and there is some other explanation.
You tell me.
Believe whatever you want to believe. I briefly considered posting my credit score history graph from my bank, but I really have no reason to try to prove anything to you and you'd probably excuse it with something else like "why are you lying about missed payments?" or "you could've easily faked this graph" or some other explanation. I shared my experience with the credit score system (yes, in the US) and that's that.
You don't owe me any explanation or proof of anything, no. I'm mostly raising an issue for the awareness of anyone else reading, and giving you a chance to explain and defend your comments and claims if you want to.
Cool. While you're digging around my comment history, why not dig up a comment where I'm a tankie saying tankie things? That would be a lot more relevant.
It's too late for that! You lied about having missed payments; now you're condemned to "YDI" 😤