WayOfTheBern using reddit shadow banning on saidit

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[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

That's what a shadowban is. At least on reddit/saidit.

[–]0_0 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Apparently this is the case. I've always thought of shadowbaning as being added to a sitewide blacklist by reddit itself or maybe getting your comments deleted by a rule from automoderator that targets a specific user since it's a special bot that pre filters everything before it even shows up in the API a regular bot would use. Honestly I didn't even know this old branch of reddit had automoderator.

[–]bucetao6969 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Shadowban from what I understand is being banned without knowing. You can interact with the community as if you weren't banned, but your votes won't count and your comments won't show up. But you feel like you are still participating.

Shadowban on reddit was apparently global on certain scenarios because there was a sub to test if you were shadowbanned.

I don't know how this global shadowban worked because from time to time I got messages from certain communities saying I was auto-banned from there for engaging in another community.

[–]bucetao6969 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Is this kind of system allowed?

Also does the user know his comment was deleted?

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The user does not know

[–]Dragonerne[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No. I was posting for days apparently and had my comments secretly removed. I found out today