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I've been banned from Reddit several times for absolute b**** reasons. Most recently I was banned for report abuse. But it has an incredibly huge problem with a

I've been banned from Reddit several times for absolute b**** reasons. Most recently I was banned for report abuse. But it has an incredibly huge problem with a particular style of spam account that reposts old content on certain subreddits. I was reporting those and also commenting on threads as to why I was reporting them so that others could see it. Without any discussion, comment, or initial warning to say " hey stop using this report mechanism ", my year old account was banned outright. So I created a new account, but I assume found out that despite posting pretty benign comments they were uncontroversial, that account got shadow banned. I'm not sure what mechanism i triggered. So now I created another new account which seems to be functional for the moment. I think the lesson I should be taking away from this is that almost all of Reddit is absolute garbage, and I should only be going there for niche hobbies and professional support forums. Let the rest of that God forsaken site burn. Anyway, I thought this was relevant because of the fact they didn't inform me of my sin before banning me.

swayvil 3y ago
You are 90% probably a goat. A troublesome edge-case. A poor investment. They want sheep. Only sheep.
Terr_ 3y ago
A while ago my Reddit account of over 10 years (zero prior issues, bajllions of comments and karma) was randomly killed via a Kafkaesque process I'm calling "Schrodinger's Ban": 1. With zero notification or reason, you are shadow-banned, and every post/comment you ever made vanishes from public view. 2. You use the "Appeals" page, and get a canned apology that it was a mistake withtheira spam-filter, and a message claiming your account has been restored. 3. Except they lied. You're still blocked, and now the Appeals page stops working because it falsely claims your account is already in good-standing! 4. All your messages through unofficial channels (modmail) are also blocked/filtered-to-uselessness so that you can't reach out to anybody. 5. If you load up another established account, like a job-search throwaway from 5 years ago... the exact shame shitty sequence of events kills it too.
noptd 3y ago
>But it has an incredibly huge problem with a particular style of spam account that reposts old content on certain subreddits. Well that's your problem right there. That type of spam boosts a number of activity and usage KPIs and increases engagement. Reddit has even been caught using bots to artificially build out new subreddits by Google translating and reposting existing content from other subreddits to give the illusion of popularity in order to bootstrap new subs. Why would they want to cut down on any of that when it would affect their bottom line?
johnnyanmac 3y ago
>Most recently I was banned for report abuse yeah that was one of the last straws for me. When you get banned instead of the spam or harassment you report, you know the site no longer cares about real people. I don't bother browsing with an account anymore. just quick checks on some niche communities I have yet to replace. Sucks I can't hide posts, but I can still ignore annoying users or subs with RES. So I get most of the benefit.

swayvil 3y ago

You are 90% probably a goat. A troublesome edge-case. A poor investment. They want sheep. Only sheep.

Terr_ 3y ago

A while ago my Reddit account of over 10 years (zero prior issues, bajllions of comments and karma) was randomly killed via a Kafkaesque process I'm calling "Schrodinger's Ban": 1. With zero notification or reason, you are shadow-banned, and every post/comment you ever made vanishes from public view. 2. You use the "Appeals" page, and get a canned apology that it was a mistake withtheira spam-filter, and a message claiming your account has been restored. 3. Except they lied. You're still blocked, and now the Appeals page stops working because it falsely claims your account is already in good-standing! 4. All your messages through unofficial channels (modmail) are also blocked/filtered-to-uselessness so that you can't reach out to anybody. 5. If you load up another established account, like a job-search throwaway from 5 years ago... the exact shame shitty sequence of events kills it too.

noptd 3y ago

>But it has an incredibly huge problem with a particular style of spam account that reposts old content on certain subreddits. Well that's your problem right there. That type of spam boosts a number of activity and usage KPIs and increases engagement. Reddit has even been caught using bots to artificially build out new subreddits by Google translating and reposting existing content from other subreddits to give the illusion of popularity in order to bootstrap new subs. Why would they want to cut down on any of that when it would affect their bottom line?

johnnyanmac 3y ago

>Most recently I was banned for report abuse yeah that was one of the last straws for me. When you get banned instead of the spam or harassment you report, you know the site no longer cares about real people. I don't bother browsing with an account anymore. just quick checks on some niche communities I have yet to replace. Sucks I can't hide posts, but I can still ignore annoying users or subs with RES. So I get most of the benefit.