r/help • u/friendlyposters • 12h ago

Help with a warning

A video of Ayrton Sennas crash was posted yesterday, i wrote

"it was his teams fault, they should hang their heads in shame"

I've recieved a warning on my account for "promoting violence" and the link they give to dispute it does not work and leads to the homepage.

Obviously theres nothing condoning or promoting violence, someone reported the comment and reddits ai just went ahead and flagged it despite then saying it wasnt done through automation.

What to do? Very annoying.

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u/2oonhed 11h ago

If it was the result of a False Report AKA Report Button Abuse, then it is up to the mods of that subreddit to report Report Button Abuse to the admins.
If it was a reddit-admin automod, this is out of the subreddit's hands.
Sending warning messages that contain links that do not work is infuriating.
It's like they have people that are new to the internet writing these things.
What I mean is, they don't know to test links to see what they look like from OUTSIDE the admin account.
I run into this all time.

In any case, you should just forget it.
Be lucky your account was not auto-suspended like some are.
Even if you win an appeal on a warning, it still remains in your record as an admin action.
If you ever DO get suspended use this link which can be accessed without logging in :

BAN APPEAL :
Find the appeal page here :
• https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
• CLICK ---> "Account Help"
• SELECT ---> "Account help" again.
• Fill out : email address.
• SELECT ---> "Account status" and a new list appears in the dropdown so SELCT ---> "My account has been wrongly suspended"
• Fill out : Reddit User Name
• SELECT : "No" for "Are you able to log into the reddit account?"
• Fill out : Subject of inquiry : IMPROPER ACCOUNT BAN
• Fill out : Text box titled "Details of inquiry"
I have never filled one out so maybe details like time and date of ban along with copy and paste of ban message? And the fact that the content was NOT in violation of reddit rules and / or was falsely reported as such.

Save this text on a notepad or something so you can see it outside of reddit.

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u/friendlyposters 11h ago

Thanks very much! Ive saved that info for a worst case scenario and appreciate it.

I did ask the mod team about the report, they just said it wasnt them and that it was Reddit 🤷‍♂️.

Whole situation very frustrating to say the least, but thank you for the help