When a whistle goes silent: An OOTL look at a recent subreddit ban
For those that didn't know, TheWhistlerIII - a prominent user within the subreddit, well-known for his frequent attempts in getting C4s and the Saw to be added to PD3 - was banned from the subreddit as of today. But why were they banned? After some stalking on Whistler's account, this appears to be the events leading up to their ban:
May 25, 7AM UTC: A user (henceforth called C) made a (now removed) post on the subreddit, calling out (but not directly naming anyone) Whistler and his friends who frequently posts about their suggestions on the subreddit for "circlejerking" and "spamming" the subreddit.
(Regretably, there is no way to retrieve the body text of the post, but from my memory the post involved noting that PD3 didn't reward much content for max Renown players, and that this should be focused on over adding content like C4s, saws, or a specific gun. But I may be remembering wrong here, however.)
In the comments of their own post, C made this aggressive comment:
May 25, 8AM UTC: C responds to a comment they received, falsely accusing them of being an alt account of Whistler and/or his friends:
May 25, 10.30AM UTC: Whistler and his friend (henceforth called K) notices the post, and starts a series of posts against C:
May 25, 12PM UTC: C gets into an argument with Whistler, and at one point accuses Whistler of harassing a moderator of a PD3-related Discord.
On another note, one of the aforementioned Discord mods would eventually get into the argument to disprove C's accusation, but confirms Whistler was banned from Discord for an undisclosed reason:
Between May 25 6PM UTC - June 2 2PM UTC: Whistler and K would make fun of C (but not directly naming anyone) in several instances, some time after C's post:
And that's the (incomplete) events of what happened. I am not going to argue in this text over whether the ban was deserved, or whether the actions Whistler, C or K did are justified, this is not my intention of my post. The goal is to try and build an understanding of what actually happened that led to such a well-known poster on the sub being banned.
Posted Jun 3, 2025, 7:46 AM UTC