10 upvotes, 3 direct replies (showing 3)
I was shadowbanned for downvoting in an NP thread (with my mobile reddit app you can up/downvote on NP threads and so it just looked like a normal thread to me). How do I know it was enforced by admin? When I messaged them to ask why I was banned, that's what they told me.
Comment by Walter_Bishop_PhD at 06/07/2015 at 20:11 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
It's not the fact it was np. that you got banned for, it's the fact that you followed a link from another sub that got you banned (webservers can see where you came from when clicking on a link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer[1] )
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
reddit uses the pattern:
xx.reddit.com
and
xx-xx.reddit.com
for language URLS. Regardless if the language is an actual language or not, reddit will add an HTML attribute (`lang="xx"`) that contains the subdomain. This attribute can be used in CSS selectors in a subreddit stylesheet
Mods have improvised this into an opt-in technique to help hide voting arrows and the like in subreddits, but it requires that the linker add "np." to their URL.
NP is a horrible ugly duck-tape solution to the brigading problem and is completely ineffective; a more concrete official solution from reddit is needed
Comment by [deleted] at 07/07/2015 at 02:48 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by nodthenbow at 07/07/2015 at 01:45 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
NP is just a stylesheet that subs can use to remove upvotes and downvotes. If they don't remove them it will still work as normal reddit would. That's why you were shadowbanned, because np sometimes is useless.