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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[–] 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.