Reddit decided that i can’t delete my account, i tried several times with no luck. Do you have ideas? Should i get myself banned?

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      No, don’t. Banned accounts look good in their statistics to investors, like they care about users and enforce strict moderation. Or they shrug you off as part of a bot army or something.

      Actual deletion means a conscious act of a user to leave the platform.

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    Go on there and state that you believe that Nazis should be punched. They’ll ban your account.

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    Don’t delete your account. There are browser plugins that will edit all your posts to nonsense to fuck up AI models. Be a burden.

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      They reverted mine before. It’s Reddit, if they don’t have backups or methods to detect mass edits or deletions, I’d be shocked.

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          preserving your data is more valuable for them than the time spent rewinding your account back half an hour.

          hell, they might even have it as an automated script that fires off after it detects to many post edits from your account or something.

  • Happened to me too yesterday I had many alt and my account where I do European activism got shadowbanned so I decided to delete everything but they would not let me, the only way is to cause mayhem and break the rules to make them regret keeping you.

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    Looks like an OS native dialog, which makes me think this is the app? Have you tried doing it directly on the website instead?

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      No, don’t. Banned accounts look good in their statistics to investors, like they care about users and enforce strict moderation. Or they shrug you off as part of a bot army or something.

      Actual deletion means a conscious act of a user to leave the platform.

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      Yeah, there’s a simple code for it, you just have to type “Luigi spez” and they’ll handle this for you.

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          I don’t think you’re going to get more efficient than “Luigi” right now, which I think might just do it.

          Honestly the cultural power that word has right now is inspiring. They are so afraid, and people are seeing that they’re afraid, and that has power in itself.

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    Having the same problem with Twitter account lol got banned 2023 for being nafo embassador but now can’t delete the account somehow.

    Slava Ukraïni 🇺🇦🫶🏽🤍

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    Just send a GDPR deletion request. You can find ready made texts online. Just plug in your email/username and send it. Make sure to request a confirmation of the deletion.

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    That’s funny. I live in a small country so I can’t stop being banned. All I have to do is comment “hey” and my account is gone instantly.

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        it’s not just Reddit. it’s more websites every year.

        I’ve worked as a sysadmin at companies who have done it. they blacklist an ASN which covers an entire ISP, or they just straight up ban the entire country. it’s the easiest way to get rid of a few kids running penetration scans against the site or whatever. they don’t get much revenue from the users in these countries and so they don’t care. access to the collective knowledge of humanity is always getting smaller in developing countries.

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          wow that’s so shitty holy heck. i hope none of those websites are essential, or if they are that you find a free and working VNP

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      Are people really having trouble with it? I did it several years ago. I recall it being a fairly easy process.