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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[–] 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.