I’ve never been even reprimanded mildly, far less banned, by Twitter, Facebook or WordPress but, today, I’ve been banned from Reddit.
I’ve been reposting the same content from my blog on r/Scotland, as Carridon90 (no one on Reddit used their real name) for a few weeks now much to the annoyance of some, who have sworn at me, called me a ghoul, suggested I have mental health problems and called for the moderator to pull me. I do not remember ever being abusive.
Anyhow, I’ve been banned and my four bairns are now proud of me.
I can see no way to challenge the ban but perhaps a few of your could go on https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/submit and ask why Carridon90 has been banned?
The ban follows my posting of this though may be due to some other thing:
Some then accused me of faking stuff. I did, but had hoped they would recognise satire.
Twitter has never bothered about my many such mock-ups. BBC Scotland has never complained.
I await clarification, politely, but if they don’t explain themselves soon they can just……..
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Reddit?
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You were banned for being an arsehole, nothing else. Auld codgers like you need to go back to eating soup and shouting at the telly. Cry some more professor!
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I name you John McTiernan and claim back my Labour Party subscriptions for masquerading as a workers’ party for the past two decades !
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You have been banned because they only want agreement that Scotland is rubbish and should stay in the union .Reddit quietly support the union behind a pretence of impartiality , i divorced them years ago.
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What? I regularly browse r/Scotland and used to have an account on Reddit and I can tell you from experience that r/Scotland is very much a pro-independence subreddit. In fact, it’s probably the most pro-Indy subreddit on the whole site!
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Fake news ? Perhaps they hadn’t ”reddit” properly and misunderstood your intent ?
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Red card!
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Two Headlines.
Acorn: Business leaders tell government to get a move on with north-east carbon capture scheme
Tata did not choose UK for £4bn battery plant just for taxpayer cash – Sunak
Spot the difference one in Scotland the other in that other place where we have to beg for our pocket money but massive subsidy to benefit England
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Who’s the leading retired professor? 🙂
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More satire!
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Johann Rumpelstiltskin III
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JR lives…
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Ban ‘im, Prof R 😀
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Ooer… Posted in the National too https://archive.ph/DbYKV
OT in other news (HMS James Cook) – I note (Slim ?) Andrew Picken’s excruciating attempt to promote BBC Scotland’s prior propaganda over Scotland’s NHS as distraction to England’s NHS woes, attracted so many pelters, they’ve had to dramatically demote the piece from the BBC/Scotland web-page.
4 “public interest ?” depressing (deliberate) stories and a quick recycle of their “Twenty people arrested in Grangemouth climate protest” via the BBC Tardis to appear as new, has not quite managed to cover the the propagandists’ embarrassment, but is a lesson on their sensitivity to being seen as too bloody obvious.
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They protesters should set up camp in London outside their governments’ mansions, it’s they who are in control of oil extraction in their Uk and they who take the massive profits. Pointless protesting in Scotland, but then, they know that. Anyone looking in from outwith the Uk bubble though, will be led to believe it’s a nasty planet wrecking Scottish government that’s to blame. Perfect propaganda stunt.
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According to the report in the National, they are excluding you from the subreddit r/Scotland by the moderators of that community (whatever that is – I found the entire site opaque, to put it mildly), and that this was actioned by the mods of that sub-reddit.
Two thoughts.
1. is r/scotland about place, and thus politics isnt a priority? Or is this the actions of yoon mods who dont want your (our) type of view on #their# sub=reddit?
2. as I said, I find that website particularly opaque, so what I am about to suggest may be impossible to the point of stupidity. If r/Scotland has excluded you, is it possible for you to set up your own sub/reddit, called, perhaps r/scotland independence?
One other thing. Some time ago someone on this website suggested that I consider getting involved in Quora. Being familiar with Quora – mainly for amusement as some of the ignorance displayed there has to be read to be believed – my thought was “aye, that’ll be right”. There are two phases to the Unionist MO there. One is to try to make a sensible reply to what you have said, and when that fails to resort to abuse. The duration of each depends on how thick they are. Some knuckle draggers can stretch part 1 out hardly at all. Some of the less challenged do better. But the point is that meaningful dialogue is either impossible or seriously limited to a point where its really not worth it. Sadly the Herald website is going much the same way. It’s bullying by force of numbers when bullying by force of argument fails.
Of course there is the argument that preaching to the already converted is of limited value as you are only providing confirmation of what they already think. Thats’s one of the reasons I spend time writing letters to the Herald. Once upon a time I questioned the value of this, but my old friend, Iain Lawson, encouraged me to keep going as in his view, at the margin I might change the mind of wavering No voters (which we have to do to win).
But the problem with the preaching to the converted argument is that there has to be the possibilty of conversion, which is often not possible on Quora, and perhaps not on r/Scotland either?
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