On the bright side, when the same thing happens on Lemmy it's probably just because the software freaked out and didn't federate your post. Totally different! π
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Ha! Right? At least I have peace of mind that internet people don't hate meπ
Oh we'll still hate you friend...
Yeah, it's one of the more egregious practices they ever had. Happened to me many years ago. I messaged the admins, they responded with a reason why I was banned. I played nice, said I wouldn't do that again and they restored my account. I doubt you'd get the same courtesy these days, if you even cared to try.
I genuinely don't know which admins would have done it and for which group. I had started a second reddit account after deleting my previous one in an attempt to get away from using it all the time.
Ended up having a question about some thing and made a post after otherwise just lurking in different subs only to never hear anything from it. I figured it must've been because of my low karma, but didn't understand why no one interacted with any of my future comments or posts.
Took me half a year to figure it outπ just glad to have a reason to finally cut ties
Maybe I dreamt it, but I vaguely remember them saying that shadowbans were made for bots, and humans were not supposed to get them, and if they did, it was because automod thought their activity looked like a bot.
I don't know if it was not actually the case, or if they changed it's intention later.
Kind of like the tasers and flashballs, once you give people the tools, they're tempted to use them.
I asked nice and they acted like power hungry dicks. Something like: say pretty please and i think about it. I am now ip banned
Happened to me years ago. When i asked about it my account got banned
I've never had a whole account shadow banned, but I've had some comments get shadow removed. I'm not sure why but it happened more often with my longer posts.
makes no sense how they choose to do it, and its very frustrating to deal with. at least it finalized my move to Lemmy
It's been that way for a long time. For new accounts you usually have to get comments pre-approved so they can become visible then slowly gain enough karma to the point that your comments stop requiring it. Opening up a permalink of the comment I made was something I did often to see if it was actually visible.
it's something that I didn't know about until today. started doing the Perma link thing to check- sure enough none of my posts or comments were ever actually posted.
doesn't really make sense because I've never said anything offensive or otherwise controversial, so I'm not sure why I was excluded from participating in conversation
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