Account Bans on Reddit(orchidfiles.com)
12 pointsby theorchid2 hours ago7 comments
  • flourish_dev35 minutes ago
    I'm trying to do the same thing to share my well being apps. I've only released one out of the two so far (a GrapheneOS dumbphone solution), but I can't post it on Reddit or Hacker News until I build up much more reputation.

    I just made a Reddit account as a forward thinking to be able to use it eventually. Surprisingly I was able to sign up on a Mullvad exit IP and not get shadow banned immediately. I did use an anti-detect browser so maybe the browser is winning against Reddit's spam filters today?

    1/3 of my comments are shadow banned, though. The only one that isn't is, "Petting my dog" in response to a random post asking what puts you in a better mood. While two other actually helpful posts have either been blocked by karma minimums or Reddit.

    I can't really blame anyone, it's just a bad situation. Hacker News handles it better than most with the vouching but you have to understand how it works and the AI still gets through.

  • snarky-comments2 hours ago
    Sad but true, that's my reddit experience too.

    The anti AI slant is hilarious since the whole site is mined for AI.

    And all the content generates actual revenue and you, the content generator, get abuse for your trouble.

    • philipwhiukan hour ago
      > The anti AI slant is hilarious since the whole site is mined for AI.

      The whole of everything is mined for AI. The decisions of the site owners to profit from the mining aren't necessarily the views of the contributors.

  • lynndotpy2 hours ago
    I've been accused of using AI by Redditors as well. I am unsure of what caused it, but I was banned in December with no warnings, no reason, and with no response at any of my appeals. I still have no idea why I was banned.
  • gruezan hour ago
    One thing I didn't notice OP mentioning is whether he was using a VPN or not. Of course that would make the suspicion level spike in any spam classifier.
    • ram1500natrluvr41 minutes ago
      I can't share the experience with OP as I have a longstanding reddit account and really only participate in niche subreddits using old reddit. My rule of thumb is to always be skeptical about ban grievance stories that don't provide all the details that a knowledgeable person would ask. What, precisely, was posted? What platform was it posted from? Was there a dancing around of IP addresses and estimated locations with VPNs?

      If I were to make a new account, I'm wondering if I would run into the same issues. Surely it can't be that difficult for new users to join reddit?

      There's a separate, larger discussion about aspects of the modern internet that people are going to have to get used to, in that "determining whether someone is a real person or not" will be necessary for a lot of services to stay alive. I don't believe the conspiracies that attempts to do this are all for mass surveillance. Mostly, a place for people to talk can only live if people trust that they're talking to other people. Right now, we're seeing some botched or overzealous implementations of this, which might describe what OP ran into.

  • orionblastar2 hours ago
    Try here: https://goatmatrix.net/ It is an alternative to Reddit.
  • lofaszvanittan hour ago
    People run these forums, but seemingly they all act like antisocial people. These unwritten rules reminds me of HR's shenanigans. Wear this, talk like that, cv should look like a flying cow, oh and you have to walk backwards to be sure.

    The whole reddit experience is just plain ridiculous. It feels exactly like a site that was made by extraterrestrial entities who try to blend in.

    New reddit UI/UX is slow and hard to read. old reddit is ok, but you always have a feeling you somehow went back to the 90s. Mind boggling. Site is overengineered and neglected at the same time and most of the moderators are trigger happy and just plain braindead. Perfect example why people should never be given power.

    And people less and less want a good discussion, they want to hear their own voices and block you whenever they are losing in an argument. Also, a lot of control freaks roam around who think people are there to cater to their every whim. Others are just running amok, post some ragebait and never commit anything to the "discussion". Essentially enjoy watching as people getting at each others throats.

    I have a strange feeling these discussion sites are only there to further alienate people from each other.

    • paimapian hour ago
      I mean, it's quite literally thankless work and unpaid labor. That wears on you after a while, after the glow of power and responsibility fades.

      If you want pro-social, community-oriented mods, you pay them a living wage (like MetaFilter does) and give them more than just circumscribed authority and literally zero tools that the community didn't make themselves. Otherwise, you get what you pay for

  • popalchemist2 hours ago
    reddit is no longer what it once was. it is now an ai-content-generation farm. It years ago abandoned its original ethos in favor of ever more fascist tendencies such as this - the unilateral silencing of individuals without cause or recourse is just one of many. There are outright bans on opinion. The overton window is now enforced via LLM.