My Reddit account was suspended for sharing a video of IDF losses

[MarcellusDrum]

At the end of 2023, I posted a raw video in /r/CombatFootage showing IDF soldiers being hit by Hezbollah. No commentary, no mocking.

Two weeks ago, my 10-year-old Reddit account (with no prior warnings) was permanently suspended, with that video cited as the reason.

Meanwhile, during the same war, dozens of videos showing the IDF attacking stayed up. Dozens of videos of Russians dying are still posted daily.

My appeal of the suspension has gone unanswered. The moderation seems less about “combat footage” and more about which side is shown losing.

[yyyk]

HN isn't the place to complain about another site's moderation or worse, subreddit moderation. If HN lets people complain about subreddits, we'll never see the end of it.

[MarcellusDrum → yyyk]

It is not subreddit moderation, my whole account was suspended. And it's not about that, it's about the fact that videos of IDF dying is banned, while Russians is not.

Discussion on media censorship.

[jibal → yyyk]

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it."

[anthk]

That's the Israel's Hasbara for you. I hate both these nuts and Hamas indoctrinating children in Palestine too, they are a different side of the same fundamentalist coin.

Abrahamic religiouns should had already learnt that the Chinese/Koreans/Japanese and the Indians didn't give a shit on milenia old tales and they didn't get "God generated punishments" the Bible told us will happen. Ditto with the native trives from Canada to the Patagonia until the Europeans arrived. Or Australia, too.

[ministeroftruth]

As disciplined citizens, we are bound to know the words that may be spoken, and the words that must never be spoken

Please check site guidelines before you post anything

[bradley13 → jssjusnsnzns]

You miss his point: he was showing Islamists in a bad light, i.e., attacking Israelis.

[jibal → bradley13]

He stated his point: "The moderation seems less about “combat footage” and more about which side is shown losing."

It's interesting that, in a military conflict between two parties, you identify one as "in a bad light" based on who they are and who they are attacking, rather than which one lost the conflict.

[jibal → bradley13]

You notably don't say which subreddit. [edit: the point being that some Reddit subs are favored by "lefties" while some are favored by people with other ideological outlooks. I would add another point: the mods may well have looked at your other comments to help guide their decision. Finally, we don't know the actual language of your comment ... the sort of comment you have described is often stated in a way violates norms]

> Thou shalt not post anything that might cause a lefty to question their opinions.

This is hyperbole at best. [edit: to be extremely charitable]

Edit: BTW, your worldview of who the good guys and bad guys are seems to be the opposite of the OP's, who is saying that the mods are ok with footage of IDF winning battles but not ok with footage of them losing battles, which does not sound characteristic of "leftys", nor does the name of the sub: /r/CombatFootage doesn't exactly sound like a "leftys" hangout. Further, the OP makes a point of stating that he wasn't mocking the IDF for losing the battle and yet was banned, which seems to clearly indicate that he thinks the mods are fans of the IDF ... again, that doesn't sound like "leftys". So by your own lights it seems that it's not leftys who reject anything that might cause their opinions to be questioned, at least not in this instance.

[bell-cot]

> The moderation seems less about “combat footage” and more about which side is shown losing.

Yes? Pretty much every human society ever has been indifferent about enforcing rules against the powerful and well-connected. But zealous about enforcing rules against the weak and expendable. While pretending that it's "equal justice for all".

Next problem: Trying to figure out what the actual (enforced) rules are, for yourself, in any given time and place.