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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.
Oh that place is an interesting idea but poor execution.
Last I knew they would ban you if you got banned from any of the news comms or had too many controversial comments. Which just boiled down to downvotes
Hmm, well, I wasn't banned from anything before that, and none of my comments had been highly downvoted. I had gotten in a few people's faces over genocide denial, though. I assumed it was because of that.
Funny enough, I just double-checked, and it looks like I've recently been banned from a bunch of Dubvee communities, too. I've never heard of this instance before, but based on this post, I'm guessing they didn't like my thoughts on United Healthcare. Again, I wasn't even aware of Dubvee until now, so I can't say it feels like much of a loss.
Apparently I've been banned and unbanned multiple times from that comm. Absolutely no idea even after reading their experiments faq.
Even their examples of bad comments were like 3 downvotes vs 8 up
https://slrpnk.net/post/11069853
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