My Reddit account was banned today for “ban evasion”. The account they think I was evading a ban for was an account belonging to a user that I recently reported for harassing me. So they banned me for being harassed, basically. Appeal is going ignored. Has this happened to anyone else?
Hello OP.
I think I may have found a way to get more information from Reddit, as well as waste the time of their lawyers.
Send this copy/pasta to legal@reddit.com if you’ve been banned:
To Whom It May Concern:
I am hereby requesting access according to Article 15 GDPR. Please confirm whether or not you are processing personal data (as defined by Article 4(1) and (2) GDPR) concerning me.
In case you are, please, in accordance with Art. 15(3) GDPR, provide me with a copy of all personal data concerning me that you are processing, including any potential pseudonymised data on me as per Article 4(5) GDPR. I am further requesting access to the following information pursuant to Article 15(1) GDPR:
- the purposes of the processing;
- the categories of personal data concerned;
- the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed;
- where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
- where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source;
- the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for me.
In case you are processing anonymised data concerning me, please not only inform me about that but also explain the procedure used in an easily understandable way.
If you are transferring my personal data to a third country or an international organisation, I request to be informed about the appropriate safeguards according to Article 46 GDPR concerning the transfer.
[Please make the personal data concerning me, which I have provided to you, available to me in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format as laid down in Article 20(1) GDPR.]
My request explicitly includes any other services and companies for which you are the controller as defined by Article 4(7) GDPR.
As laid down in Article 12(3) GDPR, you have to provide the requested information to me without undue delay and in any event within one month of receipt of the request. According to Article 15(3) GDPR, you have to answer this request without cost to me.
I am including the following information necessary to identify me: Enter your identification data here. This often includes information like your name, your date of birth, your address, your email address and so on.
If you do not answer my request within the stated period, I am reserving the right to take legal action against you and to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority.
Thank you in advance.
Yours sincerely,
Enter your name here.
Make sure to enter your name and private information in the above template where appropriate.
GDPR is absolutely amazing. I got some big shitty companies to heel already. So be sure to submit GDPR complaints whenever you see something!
In one case I got a big company in trouble for the following bullshit:
- Illegal marketing usage of email addresses. They literally started sending me marketing spam after contacting their support without me accepting anything.
- False GDPR compliance claim. They claimed to comply with the GDPR but they absolutely didn’t. They didn’t even have a representative while being an international company.
I have had official documents mailed to me about legal findings and proceedings regarding my complaints.
Brilliant.
It took me 10 seconds to copy/paste the above legalese. They have made their legal apartment the only way I can contact them. Then fine I guess. If that’s what they want
brain drain, they want consumers that dont question things
welcome to the old reddit community tho, bring your friends
They ignore all appeals and always have been. Any new accounts will pull your previously logged in device ID’s and instantly ban them too. Leave it behind bro. The site is dead.
Yeah, I guess I just give up now. The person who was harassing me (with death and rape threats) did get their account back, I saw. But mine will stay banned for reporting it.
Get on Reddit at work? If you share any public internet with literally ANY other Reddit troll who’s been banned, they just simply saw your IP address matched, and banned you because of that connection.
I was on public Wi-Fi somewhere recently. That’s seriously enough to do this? May as well get it over with and ban everybody then.
I think you don’t understand the terminology. “Ban evasion” is a creation/logging-in of another account after your previous one was banned.
I don’t have a previous one that was banned. This is my only account and it’s the second time it’s been banned without a warning for something I didn’t do. This time when I appeal they think the account that harassed me was another of mine, but it wasn’t.