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I apparently got shadow banned almost a year ago from blahaj, for a comment I made on lemmy.world
(lemmy.sdf.org)
For the record I was posting in support of inclusive language, but pointing out that context and convention matter.
They seem to have even scrubbed my comment from their instance, lol.
From the linked description:
No, no they aren't. Communities have general set of opinions and they will often downvote you having the wrong one even if its as trivial as preferring the "wrong" team in a sporting event.
If I was randomly unbanned without being actually transgressive and I never knew when I could post I would very very shortly stop engaging with a community.
It's worse most comments most places will have near zero engagement. Threads are full of stuff only a few people upvoted it would be easy to use this system to harass and silence people. Hell People look at karma as the communities judgement and are actually more likely to downvote less likely to upvote if an innocuous comment is shortly reduced to -1