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[–] cfl1 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

https://archive.is/G0c6K (KIA thread unearthing the ban)

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[–] frankenmine 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Yes, it's silently deleted, similar to a shadowban. The user is not made aware of the removal.

The spam filter could have been an explanation except no other site has been hard banned before. The admins initially instituted a ban where the mods could not approve the automatically-removed posts and comments including Slimgur links even if they wanted to. That's clearly intentional.

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[–] ack 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

bad phrasing on my part - I wasn't implying that slimgur got recognized as spam, I was just interested in the implementation of it, ie if the Reddit admins implemented the ban by manually adding slimgur to the spam filter.

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[–] frankenmine 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Initially, no. They used an unprecedented measure for it. They may have programmed it just for Slimgur.