Hey all. I’m here to tell you about my experience getting “shadow-banned” on my 8-year-old Reddit account. Short alike others: https://lemmy.today/post/49087735, https://lemmy.today/post/48784920, https://lemmy.today/post/47876190, https://lemmy.today/post/47779751
Almost smart
I basically stopped using Reddit 3 year ago around the whole “Reddit’s killing Thirdparty APPS” but, got sucked back in to a niche health/lookmaxing style Sub that I helped Mod for 10 months.
The day of
About a week ago I’m making posts, commenting, Moding, etc, and interactions stop working strangely lets of red error popups, and the “Important Information About Your Reddit Account” notification, saying “after detecting some technical irregularities on your USER_NAME account, we took the extra precaution of locking your account. To unlock your account, reset your password now.”
Figuring it out
So, I reset it via my email and log back in. Worried, but it seem top be working… then a few hours later the same red banner errors when I try to interact with users. So, I view my account on a logged out browser and it says “account suspended”
What to-do?
After filling out both https://www.reddit.com/appeal & https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000600232 I waited for an email, Reddit notification… And got nothing about it.
Now, the current non-signed in status is “This account has been banned” & all posts/comments are removed (Mods can still see them as from u/deleted & manually approve them)
When signed in:
- No banner on my account or reason for being banned.
- All public interactions fail with a Red popup error, and my entire history of posts and comments says “Sorry, this post was removed by Reddit’s filters.” or “Removed by Reddit”
Why?
What did I do wrong? Only reddit knows that! We can speculate, but, there is no point really. Reddit’s TOS allows them to!
How I feel about it
I feel disrespected, gaslit, lied to, and discriminated against. Sad, angry, depressed, etc… :( You all know the stages of grief.
Reddit pretending there’s a technical issue to me, but banning me without even saying it, and removing all my past posts & comments is very disheartening. From my personal experience, Reddit has proven to be largely a waste of time, and very much uninvestable.
Moving forward
Well, I’m not gonna make another Reddit account just for the same thing to happen, that would be me participating in (as I see it) a toxic relationship. I still get other random Reddit notifications (modmail, streak messages, etc) I can’t do anything with. It’s like Reddit is teasing me now. This guy has a good point https://lemmy.today/post/47176601/22123471
A little help?
Anyway, I know there is a lot of hate for conservative/Christian views around here, so any TIPS on where to find a ‘safe space’ to be me & express my self, and how to limit/block toxicity would be appreciated.
Maybe this is a sign from God, that my time is better offline.
Fucking yikes…
Now it makes sense.
I don’t even know what conservative means here but if it means you’re a fascist, I wish you the absolute worst. If you are an actual Christian which would mean putting kindness to your neighbor above all else then only some jerks would have a problem with you. But that’s likely not what it means. It likely means you spend a good deal of energy judging and hating lgbt people. Feel free to correct me. I don’t know you, but I do know that in some sense at least at one point you could be a good person and say you’re a conservative Christian, but currently there’s about a 97% correlation between being a Nazi trash person and being a “conservative Christian”.
Thank you for leaving room in your judgment, it’s only a %97 change you wish me “the absolute worst.” :)
Either way, I don’t feel I need to be less of my authentic self to please you. I will wear your hate with pride if need be.
Noticed you made no offer to deny being a nazi or a bigot against lgbt+. Interesting.
Feel free to hate that I hate your hate.
I can not oblige that. Hate is a sin, and sin hurts everyone.
I don’t feel the need to defend my self against such ad hominem attacks, or deny such baseless claims. You have feel will to think and say as you choose. Your opinions are none of my business. If you want a discussion, please start with some good faith questions. Else, how can I not see you as a hateful troll?
Also ya know what. “Looksmaxxing” is also a sin too, it’s called vanity. Except now it’s on steroids because you psychos are doing crazy shit like beating your own face with a hammer. One can only assume it’s to attract a less trollish Nazi wife. But who knows (or cares)? It’s a sin. But you don’t care about that do you? I wonder why.
Nazi then. Got it
And one asking for a safe space, XD. I hope he doesn’t like it here.