This is now the SECOND time reddit has given me a 7 day ban for report abuse, and it’s the second time the ban was total bullshit.

Both came for reporting content in r/Ukraine which had hit the front page. The first ban was for reporting a comment which used the word “orc” to describe Russian people multiple times and was, at least in my opinion, doing so in a clearly racially charged way. I actually got banned from the subreddit for commenting in that thread- someone was asking what orc meant and I said “it’s a dehumanizing term being used right now for Russian people.” Then I got the full-site ban. The admins lifted the ban when I appealed it. That comment has since been deleted.

This latest time was for reporting the literal beheading video that hit the front page. It was explicitly against reddit TOS.

I regularly report content in other subreddits that is openly racist or ridiculously, over the top gorey. Never once have I gotten hit was a “report abuse” ban. Why the fuck is there even a “report abuse” ban in the first place? How does it work? It seems to me like the mods of a subreddit can claim that a post or comment is having reports abused on it and the admins will just blanket ban everyone who reported it. Or is that just true for this particular subreddit?

I already wasn’t using Reddit because of the blackout, now they may have just made me never want to return even if they do cave on third party apps. This is just ridiculous.