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Cake day: August 3rd, 2025

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  • I was in the WNBA sub a while back. And there was a conversation going about fair pay. I wasnt too into it, but I commented “Is the league profitable now? I thought it was still needing investment from the NBA?” Got instantly banned, and a rather nasty message from a lesbian woman, who was also non binary and “2S”. Why was any of that relevant to the conversation? Fuck knows. But she made a point of telling me anyway, while calling me a troll for saying that the WNBA was shit… which I didnt, as you can see from the comment. During the discussion of her inserting what she thought I was saying, I got the back story. I was then reddit banned for “harassment”. Thats right, she reported me to reddit for asking why I was banned, and saying that I never did what she said I did.

    That was the last interaction I had with a mod, the first was about 20 years ago in an xbox forum. Somehow, a playstation fanboy had got into the mod team and started banning people for saying that they prefer xbox to playstation… on an xbox forum… I have hated mods for as long as Ive been on line. They have nothing been anything other than power hungry bullies.



  • I got a ban from reddit and you know what? I actually feel better for not being there anymore. I never actually realised just how much of an affect that endless drama on there was having on my mental health.

    I think back to those old school forums, and it really was simpler time. People were more genuine, and hadnt been utterly mind fucked by all the algorithms poisoning their opinions about movies they hadnt seen and books they hadnt read.

    You could even meet people IRL from some places, and it wasnt a big deal. Now everyone is a rapist, murder bot with a weird bum fetish, and meeting anyone is an insane idea.

    Just goes to show, things are always great right up until the point the “cool kids” get in on it and make it popular.