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Comment by Mumberthrax at 06/07/2015 at 19:11 UTC
45 upvotes, 1 direct replies
jesus. shadowbans were supposed to be for spambots, not users voting too much, weren't they? Why has their use expanded?
How did you find out what the reason for your shadowban was?
Comment by [deleted] at 06/07/2015 at 21:00 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It sucks that I had to have a mod tell me when an auto message would have sufficed.
Which completely defeats the purpose of shadow banning. Accounts are free, so informing someone they are shadowbanned just causes them to make a new account. They are supposed to be unaware so they continue to post on a non working account for some amount of time before making a new one.
everything that person said I didn't like so I voted accordingly.
That's not how you are supposed to vote though.
Comment by [deleted] at 06/07/2015 at 23:22 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I was once shadowbanned for 3 months before I realized it (I was at college and didn't post too much). My crime? Upvote-brigading in an AskReddit thread where they had made a joke referencing Red vs. Blue; I was sent there because I saw it mentioned on r/roosterteeth. Not to mention that I visit AskReddit all the time and probably would have seen it anyway. For that crime, I spent 3 months talking to myself and wondering why nobody was agreeing or disagreeing.