Sir Paul McCartney was banned from Reddit after sharing pictures of a concert in the r\/PaulMcCartney subreddit. Over the weekend, Paul McCartney\u2019s Reddit account attempted to share pictures from a show at Fonda Theatre to the site via a Dropbox link. Shortly afterwards the account was banned.Why did this happen? That\u2019s in dispute. At first it appeared that the mods of r\/PaulMcCartney had kicked Sir Paul from the subreddit dedicated to him. But moderators insist that\u2019s not what happened and pointed to a Reddit admin comment explaining that Paul was banned site-wide, not at the subreddit level. \u201cAsk yourself, why would we ban the account of the man we’re all passionate about? Moderators also have no power over [whose] account is deleted from this website. Only admins do, which again has already been addressed by them,\u201d r\/PaulMcCartney moderator RoastBeefDisease said in a stickied post on the subreddit.In a different thread, an admin explained that McCartney was never banned and that his account was booted from the site due to a glitch. \u201cJust for clarity, that account was never banned from the site (or the subreddit) there was a technical error that made it appear to be banned from the site,\u201d the admin said. \u201cThis has now been resolved. Sorry for any confusion this caused or issue for the mod team here!\u201dReddit confirmed the glitch in an email to 404 Media, but did not elaborate on its nature. \u201cThere was a technical bug that made the account look banned, but no one would ban one of The Beatles,\u201d Reddit said.As of this writing, McCartney\u2019s account is active on the site but the thread of the Fonda Theatre pictures is gone. \u201cSorry, this post was deleted by the person who originally posted it,\u201d the thread said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEither Paul’s team deleted it or Reddit did. If mods removed it it’d be visible from his page and say \u2018sorry the moderators have removed this post\u2019 when you click it,\u201d RoastBeefDisease explained.\u00a0An early theory said McCartney\u2019s concert pics were removed from Reddit because they violated Reddit\u2019s rules about self promotion. Reddit is unique in the world of social media. It has well established, complicated, and labyrinthine rules and teams of moderators that enforce those rules. Bots deliver justice in the form of suspensions and bans for the smallest infraction. The self-promotion rules are about 1,200 words long and it can be hard for outsiders to break into Reddit and understand its mores.On sites like Instagram and Facebook, Paul McCartney\u2019s PR team can dump whatever photo or video it wants without consequence. There is friction to Reddit that does not exist in other social spaces online. That\u2019s by design and it gives the place a unique feeling that\u2019s kept it successful for two decades. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"