Apologies SGIWhistleblowers for hijacking our sub to send a reply to u/Jessica-Perez24 from that other mean-spirited sub, but I'm banned from commenting over there (of course!).

This reply should also be noted by u/FellowHuman007 and u/Marilynnnn:

People get banned for all sorts of reasons, the most annoying one being a mess-up with Reddit's automated systems. So trying to use that as a reason to dump on a fellow Redditor is unreasonable and just makes you look as if you are deliberately trying to find a way to denigrate someone you don't like. Is that the way Buddhists are taught to behave? It's not a good look.

I know this from my experience of when a previous ID of mine was banned because I was made moderator of a private sub that fell foul of some technical requirements (something about it being inactive for x amount of time, or the previous mods being inactive or something IDK. Reddit was very vague about the reason) and when that sub was removed my ID got banned. And my ID got an automatic blanket ban from every other sub I moderated and Reddit as a whole.

I hadn't even made a post on the newly joined sub yet! What comments I'd read on the sub were extremely innocuous and mainly about admin for a related public subreddit. Most were a couple of years old! In any case, since it was private, only invited people could see it, so if it had contained dodgy content (which it didn't) only those consenting would have been exposed.

It's a total mystery to me. Since I'd literally done absolutely nothing to prompt a ban, obviously I tried to appeal, but have heard nothing back from Reddit admins. It's really difficult to get through to a human on Reddit staff and the automated systems don't seem to work in a sensible way. It's like talking to a brick wall.

(and BTW Human Fellow, my current ID refers to the late, great Frank Zappa's incredibly famous song "Mudshark", and not to some more recent interpretation that you dragged up.

I don't know what circles you run in?, but since I don't associate with the kind of unpleasant people who would use the term mudshark in a racist way, I'd never heard of that use before you brought it up. Nor has anyone in the UK that I know ever heard the term. Think about it, why would I choose to use a derogatory term about myself? And what about the poor fish, what name should it go by now?

Frank Zappa forever!)