New Reddit art MOD team reversed 5093 bans out of 5156 bans that were issued in 2025.

Holy shit.

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Five. THOUSAND. users. They were banned for no reason, yet people still defend visiting Reddit. Let it die...
- More importantly is the actual ratio. If its 5k out of 500k that would means 1% of bans were unjust, which could just be explain as error margin, but this one is over 98% of the bans that were unjust. It is a blatant abuse of whatever perceived power there is.
  
  It's indefensible
- To be fair, I would not be surprised the learn the exact same thing is happening on Lemmy, to exactly the same degree of severity.
  Lemmy isn't really any better than Reddit in this regard, unfortunately.
  
  This is entirely down to the instances and how they administer the moderators on their communities. The big difference is that if such a thing happened on the fediverse, if it's really bad, members of the community could recreate it on another instance and take the userbase.
  Ie if the moderators of art@lemmy.world lost the plot, it could be remade on art@lemmy.zip. That doesn't work so well on reddit because "art", the natural name is taken.
  
  Public mod logs mean that, while it can still happen, everybody knows it's happening. There is no guessing. There is no gaslighting. It's public. It's much easier to deal with problematic mods/admins/instance owners when it is public.
- How about they were banned for using generative "AI" and the new mods re-enabled the slop because reddit suffers from content loss?
  Is anyone really gullible enough to expect something good from reddit in 2025?
  
  yup. race to the slop hole bottom with these twats
- This can happen on the Fediverse as well, though. It might not happen at the same scale as on Reddit over here due to the public modlog, but mods can still ban people for no legitimate reason.
  There are lots of other reasons why Reddit sucks. But mods power tripping isn't unique to them. We have our own fair share of power tripping mods and community hoarders that migrated here from Reddit.
  
  Power tripping on the fediverse is mitigated by various factors though:
  Public modlogs (as you said).
  Federated structure meaning a deranged moderator team can find themselves replaced by a copycat community on another instance if they're bad enough.
  And perhaps I'm a bit naive here, but I'd like to think that no respectable instance admins on the fediverse would allow the brazen behaviour of the r/art team. They'd have long been removed.

Why were they banning so many people? Is it actually valid?
- Probably from power tripping mods getting in arguments or just not liking someone for an arbitrary reason. It's very common for most power mod ran subs.
  I'm sure other popular subs would have similar results if real human beings not trolls reviewed the reasons for bans.
  
  I once got banned from a sub after I was in a discussion with someone they asked for a source so I posted a few sources. Then I was banned from the sub because apparently you're not allowed to post links in the sub, which was news to me. Then I noticed the person I was arguing with was a mod of the sub and I had been set up. Which in retrospect is kind of funny but at the time it pissed me off.
  
  Can confirm. When I used to participate on reddit I was permbanned from r/DemocraticSocialism for flagging a very obvious bot account, and permbanned from r/okbuddychicanery for linking a circlejerk subreddit the mods didn't like because surprise! they'd permbanned the person that started that subreddit for reasons they completely made up.
  Reddit mods are basement dwelling trolls.
- This stems from the r/art drama few days back, also posted and discussed here on this post:
  Post on lemmy.world
  basically after this they investigates the mod logs and found the skeletons in the closet. if really the 5K bans are only the one made in 2025, that would average to 15 bans per day, what a monster..
  
  MOD:
  No, I banned you for breaking our rules.
  \ But I can remove all of your old posts as well if you'd like.
  Strawbear:
  Just delete the comment and move on. Sorry I mentioned the word "print"
  MOD:
  Your history has been removed.
  \ You're welcome.
  Omg, so much rage! Some people don’t deserve to interact with humans.
- Here's a literary recount of the events.

How many ban reversals end up with the return of an active user? My guess is, "very few."

i wonder if my 9 accounts have been unbanned. you say "hello" with a vietnamese ip address and you are sometimes banned instantly
- xin chao!
  but in all seriousness, are reddit mods able to see which ip address a post is from?
  
  im guessing its not a mod that is instantly and permanently banning my reddit account for no reason, but that they are blacklisting blocks of ips of small countries without giving it a second thought.
  they also never respond to any appeal that ive submitted
  
  Used to mod a somewhat big sub (500k members) before getting banned off the platform and they can't. I think it was the admins/bots flagging accounts as "ban evasion" or removing posts due to their filters and sending them to the queue, where some shitty mods just ban the account if it gets falsely flagged frequently

I guess this is commendable, but it still feels like putting lipstick on a pig.
Or maybe that's just me seeing reddit getting smaller and smaller in my rearview mirror.
- Reddit only intervened and bought in new mods because the previous moderator team ragequit and locked the subreddit.
- Putting lipstick on a pig is exactly what Spez is into.

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