Banned from reddit for enabling self harm

[persuasion]

In the suicide sub forum on reddit someone said he will kill himself if Trump gets elected. I told him, that this is a pretense and that he might as well do it now because killing yourself over an election is ridiculous and dumb. Admins banned me for that. So I am in the wrong for mirroring someone how ridiculous his statement is and showing him that his life should be dependent on more than a fucking political election?

I don't really care about the ban though. Reddit is stupid anyway. It's just funny how sensible and easily offended people are there.

 

[rozeske]

Any way you slice it, telling someone they might as well do it now, whatever their reasoning, is wrong. It isn't even acceptable here, where suicide is discussed.

 

[lordfungington]

reddit mods are ridiculous. i got banned for saying 'i wish you well whatever happens' in a suicidewatch post. how tf is this encouraging suicide? make it make sense.

 

[enduringwinter]

Many Reddit subs have ridiculous arbitrary rules, there are only a few mods for everything and some of them are power tripping through being more rigid than an algorithm. Remember that one time they locked every sub for months over some silly stuff I can't even remember. The users are good but the mods, man.

 

[outrider567]

In the suicide sub forum on reddit someone said he will kill himself if Trump gets elected. I told him, that this is a pretense and that he might as well do it now because killing yourself over an election is ridiculous and dumb. Admins banned me for that. So I am in the wrong for mirroring someone how ridiculous his statement is and showing him that his life should be dependent on more than a fucking political election?

I don't really care about the ban though. Reddit is stupid anyway. It's just funny how sensible and easily offended people are there.

I've been banned from reddit three times permanently--the first two bans lasted only about 6 weeks despite it being permanent--My third time is still in effect after a month, but it never hurts to appeal--Reddit is not very important to me anymore anyway--They have a zero tolerance for wishing harm on anyone, I got banned for wishing death on a mass murderer who killed 70 people in Norway

 

[willitpass]

Telling someone their reasons for wanting to CTB are invalid is never okay in my opinion. What may seem insignificant to you may be incredibly emotionally challenging for someone else. Feelings are subjective, not objective. It is never your place to tell someone if their feelings are right or wrong. You can disagree with them, but that doesn't make it untrue for them. And telling someone they might as well do it anyway is no different than flat out saying "kill yourself". You would not want someone to invalidate your feelings or reasons for wanting to CTB, don't do it to someone else.