18 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)
View submission: Reddit Security Report -- October 30, 2019
This account was recently banned for violation of Reddits content policy yet I've never received a suspension or warning for violating any policy.
I submitted an appeal and was told the actions had been reviewed as well as my post history and the ban would remain in place.
After having my ban appeal denied, I received a message saying my account was banned due to an error in a new automated system.
So my questions are, has there been a remedy of the automatic action that caused my account to be banned and does the appeal process actually do anything?
I have no history of violating the content policy or user policy so an appeal should have remedied the actions taken in my account but it seems it's a delayed automated response to act like admins are actually reviewing any appeals sent to them.
Comment by jason_frg at 30/10/2019 at 21:41 UTC
3 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I was also auto shadow banned after no warnings or bans on this account (remember when they said they wouldn’t use shadow banning as much anymore?)
To be fair I sent a query asking what happened and I was reinstated very quickly.
Maybe I’m just naive but all these admin updates are about new tools for removing content, new systems to ban people and stuff like that. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I wonder if there’s a better way to increase quality content than banning people and removing loads of content.
Honestly it reduces my engagement with the site. I’m not going to invest a lot of my time on this site if my account can be wiped by 1 of a dozen automatic banning algorithms. This is a concern unique to Reddit. I don’t feel like my content and account would be arbitrarily removed by Facebook or LinkedIn. But could my content and account be arbitrarily removed by Reddit? Absolutely.
Comment by worstnerd at 30/10/2019 at 18:02 UTC
22 upvotes, 7 direct replies
Yeah, looks like we made a mistake. It looks like the appeal went through within a day of the original ban. Sorry for the confusion.
Comment by [deleted] at 31/10/2019 at 03:58 UTC*
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Comment by JevanSnead at 31/10/2019 at 01:41 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I also had an account get banned with no warning. Still waiting on a non-automated response back...