I went back to test my reddit account. I wanted to respond to the mod that had me banned. I was never disrespectful. I simply complained about
her condescending attitude, her verbally abusing posters and telling every 3rd poster to "grow up". I find that I have been "banned" in one of the sneakiest
cowardly ways. I can still post, however only I can see them. Instead of being up front and actually banning me, they apparently want to avoid being
honest. If my wife or friends try to view any of my posts from their accounts, they cannot do so. reddit could at least be honest about a ban.
I went from being a "good" redditor with over 5000 comment karma, 831 link karma and several "golds", just for politely challenging the "wrong" moderator.
So what is reddit? It cannot be a public forum if it tightly controls posts in disingenuous ways. Mind you I NEVER posted anything offensive or even a little
bit disrespectful to anyone. So what is reddit? Are they just attempting to set the site up as a marketing site? Was that the mission statement all along?
Was I just an idiot for taking 2 years to find that out? Reddit is misrepresenting itself and getting worse by the month.
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[–] Eirene 0 points 20 points 20 points (+20|-0) ago (edited ago)
You've been shadow-banned. Seems like reddit is going nuts, or at least the mods are. That's why Voat was created...
[–] frankenmine 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago (edited ago)
He might also have been AutoModbanned by mod(s) in one or more subreddits, rather than shadowbanned by admins site wide.
This is an unconventional use of the AutoModerator functionality to automatically and silently remove posts and comments by certain users. It has gotten especially popular among SJW cancermods over the past year or two. There is a standard feature to ban a user from a subreddit, which should be used instead of this AutoModerator repurposing, but the standard subreddit banning feature alerts the user if they've interacted with the subreddit in the past, so SJW cancermods avoid using it in cases where they know they can't defend their ban.
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[–] MaunaLoona 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago
Does this happen in only one subreddit, or in all subreddits? If the latter, it's a shadowban by reddit admins. If the former, the subreddit mod set the automoderator to remove all your comments as soon as you make them. This happened to me in /r/dataisbeautiful. They neither notified me of this ban nor will they respond to modmail messages. As far as I know I did not break any rules.
[–] esc1010 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
A shadowban is usually sitewide, but it may be for just a single sub.
[–] MaunaLoona 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Single subreddit "shadowban" is when the mods have automod delete your posts as soon as you make them. When admins shadowban it's always for the whole account.
[–] Cumsponge69 1 point 6 points 7 points (+7|-1) ago
Ah, a shadowban. Reddits so ghey.
[–] retardedaardvark 1 point 12 points 13 points (+13|-1) ago
You can say gay, faggot.
[–] Konekko 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
Don't call people faggots, queer.
[–] Fagtardicus 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
variation is fun, degenerate
[–] burtzev 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
That's the way that bans to subreddits have operated for some time, It's an old trick that 'slows down people's outrage' as they are tricked into thinking their posts are still up. It's a 'service' given to the mods of websites. You can check to see if you have been 'shadow banned' ie across the whole of rediit via one of the reddit sites, r/shadowban I think.
[–] Fagtardicus 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
https://shadowbancheck.appspot.com/ is better, you can type in your username and get an instant answer
[–] burtzev 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Thanks.
[–] PieceOfBurger 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
I was shadowbanned on one of my new accountsas well. A mod in /r/conspiracy pointed it out. I'm not sure if it's because I posted surveillance footage of the Pentagon on 9/11 or if it's because I asked a Flat Earth theorist if he believed the moon is made of cheese.
[–] Silvermcfly17 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
FYI for anyone who wants to check their shadowban status. Right click your name and open it in an incognito window. If you see you and your comments you're good. If it says user not found, you've been shadow banned.
Better yet use grease monkey and a script and wipe your comments clean and move over here. Its only going to continue burning to the ground over there in favor or marketing and safe spaces.
[–] random_pattern 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I was shadowbanned yesterday—or was it fully banned? whatever—by a bot from a really big sub because of some "spam" I had posted (a notice stating my personal opinion of the new terms of service). I just laughed.
[–] Kazzy 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
If they're trying to set up a marketing site, I think they fucked that up too.