105 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)
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My first account was shadowbanned and despite a long period of time where I tried to find out why it had happened, so I could at least learn from whatever mistake I had made, I was ignored. It would be nice if there was at least a bot who could message us with a reason.
Comment by surge_gainz_bro at 06/08/2015 at 01:12 UTC
23 upvotes, 1 direct replies
The reason for a shadowban is to stop spam bots. If you tell them how they're getting caught the spam bots get better at dodging bans and reddit gets worse at not having spam.
It's a balancing act. It will be hard for the admins to make good on the 'no more shadowbanning real users' promise, but hopefully they're making an honest effort. I think they are... but I'm naive.
Comment by PigNamedBenis at 06/08/2015 at 01:56 UTC
4 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Being how this seems to be the norm, it's taught me to not get attached to any particular account, just make a bunch and to hell with "rules" and say whatever you want because they're going to randomly shadowban you for something periodically anyways.
Comment by [deleted] at 06/08/2015 at 00:31 UTC
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
You just don't matter enough, sorry. You're one of the eggs that have to be broken to make this SJW omelette.
Concentrate on saying things approved by the community censors and everything will be fine.
Repeat after me , I like cat pictures !
Comment by kekforever at 13/08/2015 at 16:46 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
same here. it was because i posted an unpopular opinion on 2xchromosomes, for fucks sake. took me days to figure out i was shadowbanned. zero recourse. i expect zero recourse in the future as well