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

9 MarcellusDrum 9 8/28/2025, 10:40:53 AM

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.

Comments (9)

yyyk · 8h ago

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.

jibal · 8h ago

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."

ministeroftruth · 8h ago

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

anthk · 7h ago

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.

bell-cot · 8h ago

> 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.