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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[–] arrggg 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Shadowbanned. This happened to me multiple times over there. I would go to check the thread from work, and my comments would not show. They also apparently auto-shadowban by ip addresses, so if you use a VPN it probably will require a conversation with a mod to unban your new account. And yes, if you in any way disagree with a subs general attitude or post contradictory information, they will ignore and ban you from their little safe space.
Makes it hard to join and contribute if you do not know the game of mod kiss-ass you have to play over there. I finally just quit contributing.