I've strongly suspected it for a while now.
I don't know it's too much energy to interact with terminally online neoliberals I prefer to interact with terminally online leftists and regular people in real life
I don't and would love to liberate my comrades to join my protracted war against the garden rodents. Do you?
Know the queen or want to kill rodents in my garden because no and yes
on the other hand it is my landlords garden he wants to sell the house and him losing money because of rodents would be pretty funny. I'll have to think on it
I dunno about killing rodents, I mostly just chase them. Haven't caught one yet. One day.
Some of the neoliberal "civility" powermods rule over massive fiefdoms of Reddit, and /r/politics is just one of their domains.
Say something actually leftist, and they will sometimes send you a personal message with a ban, telling you that their particularly isolated identity is/was threatened by "the soviets" and you are literally worse than nazis.
I won't name names because I don't play their doxxing game, but one eats so deeply from the trash can that they feel more threatened by leftists as a well-off white male gay man than they do by fascists, which is rich.
I was just joking about that one guy who's last name I've already forgotten because he was cast aside the second he stopped being useful to the fash
Wow I can't believe he said that!
spoiler
:data-laughing: gets me every time
r/politics did that even back when the old sub was up, I remember it being a zeitgeist to get banned form politics or dogswithjobs etc. and sharing a screencap of your ban message / evidence of shadowbanning
You're not allowed to acknowledge the fact that you post on more than one subreddit. This is known as brigading. You are also not allowed to name names when calling out antisocial behavior. This is known as harassment.
A full like... six years ago? I got banned for saying someone was being 'obtuse'. And not even for real. It was a math pun.
So began my saga of reddit itself banning me totally for ban evasion
You called someone obtuse?? You should have been thrown into solitary confinement for that
Didn't the old subs ban those screenshots because too many people were posting them?
I don't remember if it was banned, but I remember seeing the "stop posting ur bans" posts
yeah check out reveddit to see how many of your posts have been shadow deleted (probably more than you think)
r/politics is by far the worst offender in my experience, most of the others at least have the minimal decency to ban you to your face
edit: oh yeah and if you were on the old sub upvoting guillotines and shit theres a good chance your upvotes and downvotes dont work either
no one's upvotes or downvotes actually work on that site. it goes into a black box and comes out 'fuzzy'
nah i know about the fuzzy thing, but a number of us have confirmed that our votes arent counted at all. like it fuzzes above 3 votes i think, but if youve got a fresh comment with no votes and you upvote it and refresh (or look at it outside your account) it will stay at 1 and the vote doesnt register
normally for the first vote, reddit will keep it fixed at 2 (or 0) without fuzzing until theres more votes, so this is the easiest way to see it happening
Yeah I can confirm. I have tested it with multiple accounts made from the device I was on when I used to comment in the chapo sub. To this day any accounts linked to this device cannot up or downvote. I've tested it with other people where we just comment on each other's comments and mine never register at all. It's not vote fuzzing. I've even gone into the question subreddits to ask why my account is like that, or even more benignly to ask if reddit even does this or if they have an official stance on it and those posts get... I guess you'd call it "shadow deleted." They don't show as deleted to me, but no one ever sees them. However, I can post and ask other unrelated stuff.
Other people have mentioned the same. @RandyLahey is totally correct. It pisses me off because the only thing I really use reddit for anymore is to ask for little bits of advice on some topic or about medical conditions and I can't even upvote the people who respond as a minimum "thanks."
I know it's overplayed to make orwellian references but holy shit it's frustrating. Watching from the outside of what's so large a forum it could reasonably be called a public utility.
It really really is fucking frustrating. A few years ago I felt hopeful that a lot of the reationary shit that was there from the beginning was starting to get challenged, that leftist subs were popping up and there were actual leftist perspectives being discussed in some of the main subs. It was looking like there maybe could be some leftwards groundswell, or at the very least, a reduction in the more openly fash shit. Looking back, I know that was naive, but only because the same thing I was hopeful about was obviously recognized by people with power, because sure enough, all of that shit got cracked down on hard. Hence the loss of the chapo sub. It's so very blatantly steered.
I was just trying to find an article someone posted here a while back about literal former CIA now playing a major role in the workings of reddit. I'll edit and paste it if I can find it.
Slightly unrelated but my first interaction with reddit was getting shadowbanned from a trackball sub.
I have a couple pages worth on my current account. Can't check my old account because I deleted it.
Wow, /r/196 is way worse than I thought, everything from anti- landlord stuff, shit talking bill gates, and calling england the garbage island is all removed lol. Shitposting, but only with nsa approval first I guess
Disabled Privacy Badger on this site to make it work. /r/CanadaPolitics mods are apparently butthurt at a lot of my comments.
I got banned from posting there (just posting, I can still browse) because I said we should launch conservatives into the sun lol
I’m not sure what their threshold is but I can confirm that yes they do this a lot. You can open another browser incognito and go to the permalink for the parent comment (or the actual comment too I think?) if you need to check if it’s visible to others.
Pretty sure r/news and maybe some other subs share a shadowban list with that sub but I’m not 100% sure. Maybe I’m just coincidentally shadowbanned in both which is probably a plus for my sanity honestly.
There was one time a comment of mine didn’t show in a different sub and I messaged the mods asking what was wrong with it, and they allowed it saying that it was automoderated with their spam filter. Maybe getting shadow clapped in one sub means you get filtered in a few; I don’t know how it works.
In most subs on R*ddit you’re walking on thin ice. I got banned from the Coronavirus sub (for incivility and politics) for telling people arguing China has worse numbers than the US that they were huffing on pure cope. Guess you need to be ultra libcivil if you want left opinions to fly anywhere on that shit site
Guess you need to be ultra libcivil if you want left opinions to fly anywhere on that shit site
You can and should tbh. Speaking their language will have some level of rhetorical effect, while going for a dunk only impresses people who already agree with you which should be done here on the_dunk_tank anyway.
Libs will permit you to be smug af though if you can back up what you're saying, just try not to be crass.
You’re right but usually when I low effort anger reply it’s fueled completely by wanting to blow off steam at whatever bullshit I’m reading instead of being productive and working to reach them.
I used to put more effort into it but it felt like way more effort than impact, so now I’m just trying to phase out my Reddit use more and more. It would be very different if I knew them or felt they were easily reachable, but arguing with Redditors just infuriates me and feels pointless nowadays.
just trying to phase out my Reddit use more and more
This is the best move comrade :)
I got banned on my last account after I said the Bolivian coup supporters should be shot
Which is hilarious, because what is politics except deciding who will be killed and who will do the killing?
I found a cool hack to get around this; Just get banned from /r/politics
