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.
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.