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Thank you for responding. First, to make one thing clear,
and we took down some posts that contained information like home addresses, family names, and information of those who might be involved somehow but were otherwise private citizens.
That is 100% okay, you'll not find me complaining about that.
And yes, I've seen some user's screencapped conversations with either mods or admins about their shadowbanning. In most cases, the given reason was "You were involved with a raid from 4chan", but what was happening was reddit users who also use 4chan saw a link posted on 4chan, and came over to it from there, simple as.
It's not like these were one-day-old accounts getting nuked, it's not like they were commenting things like "lol zoe lives at xxxxxx", although I'm sure you guys had to deal with a fair number of those, but those aren't the comments I'm referring to.
This is a screencap of posts that got shadowbanned[1]. It's old, so some of those accounts may be back now, but what were they banned for? The content of their comment breaks no rules, and simply browsing 4chan and reddit at the same time surely isn't against the rules.
1: http://i.imgur.com/5UTd9sT.png
I get that this was a trying time for you guys, but you must see how that looks like random censorship to an outside perspective.
Comment by Sporkicide at 07/09/2014 at 18:55 UTC
-9 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I can understand why the assumptions were made, but they were incorrect. Sometimes multiple events coincide and the outcome looks very weird. If there are 100 users who are congregating on an another site while commenting and otherwise participating on reddit, that's one thing. If those 100 users then all follow the same link and vote the same way on the same post or comment, then they get flagged for vote brigading. The previous comments and activity don't have a bearing on it, but from the outside, people assume that the last public comment must be the reason and jump to conclusions.
