[tootahe45]

It can be even worse than suspending you, as early as 2018 i noticed they were shadow banning you based on VPN (PIA also). Meaning you could still post but not be seen, or have the ability to notify people you replied to. I've never since bothered to have an account there. Reddit's CEO, like Jack Dorsey, denies 'shadow banning', even though you can test it by getting -100 karma and watching your comments reach nobody. The negative karma shadow ban is why Reddit is the biggest hivemind on the internet, FYI.

[Monotoko]

The -100 shadowban is mostly subreddit dependent, and done via automoderator by the mods of most larger subreddits.

An actual admin shadowban does happen and they are employed, but I don't think they're particularly hidden. As a mod I see "User is shadowbanned" when they message us if they've been shadowbanned from Reddit by the admins.

[kibwen]

Yes, I would like to see the source that makes the claim that Reddit doesn't shadowban, because any mod of any subreddit can trivially refute that. I see shadowbanned users all the time, and Reddit calls them shadowbanned in the UI; it's not a secret. Nearly all of them are fairly new accounts, presumably having run afoul of some sort of automatic system. It definitely has plenty of false positives, but at the same time I also see essentially zero spam, so it's clear that they're trying to optimize for false positives rather than false negatives. It would be great if mods could at least approve a shadowbanned user for posting in their own subreddit, right now the only recourse is for them to make a new account and roll the dice again.

[ajkdhcb2]

I was globally shadowbanned for using Mullvad VPN. Happened with multiple accounts. I usually posted in a subreddit where a mod would manually approve my comments, allowing me to get some hundred comment karma, but that still didnt fix it and the mod was getting tired of approving so i eventually gave up using reddit altogether

[Fnoord]

> Reddit's CEO, like Jack Dorsey, denies 'shadow banning', even though you can test it by getting -100 karma and watching your comments reach nobody

Jack Dorsey was the CEO of Twitter, not Reddit.

Edit: Fair, I stand corrected. Leaving comment as-is.

[gruez]

"like" implies he's not.

[tootahe45]

Twitter did a similar thing to combat misinformation IIRC, that's why i mentioned Jack.