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Re: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage

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Post by newsbinator »

bryans wrote: post #73

Both Reddit's admins and their future-employee mods are completely out of control, in a way that makes Facebook's intentional topic manipulation seem tame by comparison. These people go out of their way to ban people for no reason -- constantly, every single day -- in a way that can only be described as intentionally abusive. They appear to get some kind of sadistic pleasure in reading ban appeals and denying them, k…

I got banned from /r/CanadaCoronavirus for saying "we are currently experimenting to learn how many boosters are needed. My rabies shots required 5 injections at specific intervals.".

They banned me for saying that vaccines are experimental.

I contacted the head mod and explained that I did not say and do not think the vaccines are "experimental".

They ignored my message for a week then upheld the ban, saying "the vaccines are not experimental". I guess it was my time to be shown the door and nothing I said after that mattered.

They are also the mod of /r/AskReddit and /r/Covid19

Re: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage

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Post by CountDrewku »

bryans wrote: post #73

Both Reddit's admins and their future-employee mods are completely out of control, in a way that makes Facebook's intentional topic manipulation seem tame by comparison. These people go out of their way to ban people for no reason -- constantly, every single day -- in a way that can only be described as intentionally abusive. They appear to get some kind of sadistic pleasure in reading ban appeals and denying them, k…

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Re: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage

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Post by fluidcruft »

cainxinth wrote: post #118
archerx wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is very true and it is already having an effect. The amount of posts in the development sub reddit has declined so much it is borderline dead. For example the front page of r/javascript is mostly days old posts which means I can visit it once a week and not really miss anything and it has 1,873,376 subscribers! It seems people have recognized that the post quality was garbage and moved on to greener pastures. It…

I’ve been using Reddit since the beginning, and I still use and like it, but your ban for saying “using php is stupid” comment resonates. One of my biggest Reddit pet peeves is downvoting or punitive mod action in response to subjective opinions. It’s not a new problem, and it’s one that can happen in any forum with downvoting, but it drives me nuts. The downvote is not a disagree button!

It's still baffling to me that so many subreddits have rules against downvotes and use CSS hacks to hide the downvote buttons (that alternate clients or using the preference to disable custom CSS easily circumvents) and that Reddit just hasn't added that as core functionality for moderators to enable on a subreddit.

The only thing I can think of is that if they make it an option all subreddits will ban the downvote and for whatever reason admin must be really invested in ensuring people are able to downvote.

One of the clever things I noticed about HN is that you cannot downvote replies to your own comments. It's an interesting tweak.

On top of that the very recent rollout of changes to how blocking works are really wrecking havoc on debate subreddits where jerks are now using blocks to "win" debates.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage

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Post by parasense »

I'd like to mention that in 2022 Reddit still does not have IPv6.

The reason I was given back around ~2010, is how they block IP addresses. Allegedly, according to an admin (who shall not be named) is how Reddit blocks spam with IP filtering. Apparently the technology only works with v4, and somehow Reddit deeply integrated the tech into their stack. Also the idea that allowing v6 would allow circumvention, which to some extent is probably true.

The TLDR is that Reddit is still not on v6 because they have a draconian IP filtering kit built into their technology stack.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage

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Post by hassanahmad »

ridgered4 wrote: post #110
hassanahmad wrote: post #27

I don't think reddit accounts get banned by using VPN but it is more about what you are posting using your accounts.

I've definitely created a new account recently over VPN, posted a single question in a linux forum and then found the account was shadow banned.

You can always contact the reddit team and if your account is suspended wrongly, it would definitely be reinstated.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage

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Post by zozbot234 »

nekcihc wrote: post #132
cainxinth wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve been using Reddit since the beginning, and I still use and like it, but your ban for saying “using php is stupid” comment resonates. One of my biggest Reddit pet peeves is downvoting or punitive mod action in response to subjective opinions. It’s not a new problem, and it’s one that can happen in any forum with downvoting, but it drives me nuts. The downvote is not a disagree button!

>>The downvote is not a disagree button! Downvote is a disagree button as it is perceived as such and that is an issue. Same functionality is in NH - it just has a higher treshold when you can use it, but not really that different in essence. Banning for arguing is normal - from the times, when early web forums existed. Banning can be for any reasons - disagreeing with mod, arguing with someone, who is friends with m…

GP was not banned for arguing, they were banned for placing a throwaway arguing/flamebait comment - "using php is stupid" - in the proper context, by providing some nuance. The fact that they were even banned for that, when at most they should have been warned had they been actually arguing, tells you everything there is to know about how well that 'subreddit' is being managed (hint: not very well).

Re: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage

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Post by 14 »

As others have said here reddit is seriously going to trash. The mods have ruined it and if you don’t agree with their narrative you will have your comments deleted or your account banned. r/Canada for example is utter trash now and won’t allow respectful open debate. It feels like it is state ran or shill ran and a narrative being painted. I hope to see reddit fall out of favour for something more open and free to discuss, respectfully, differences of opinion.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage

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Post by vero2 »

rvba wrote: post #116
vero2 wrote: post #67

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This did happen to me once. I did once comment that code of one of mods was fact wrong (code snippet). The mod warned me about banning me from the sub. I just requested please see the code and you did type it incorrectly. Next day ban...

Arent you confusing mods with reddit admins? Admins are employees of reddit who can ban you globaly from the whole website. Mods are "random" people who created a subreddit or happen to moderate it. They are unpaid volunteers and can only ban you from the subreddit they moderate. There is lots of drama about people trading mod spots (there is that person/group of persons who modereated like 250 subreddits), hacking s…

Thanks for the reply Not sure how much power mods have? May be they are tag the account as spam/ and some AI/ML automagically bans the account.

Re: Tell HN: Reddit accounts cancellation/suspension caused by VPN usage

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Post by modo_mario »

sebow wrote: post #29
pedro2 wrote: post #17

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Chinese? I'd say Russian.

I'm pretty sure a certain chinese company invested ~300M$ couple of years ago[0] if i recall correctly.However the platform became totally unusable and a sh*tfest way before that,think ~2014+, mainly because it was the turning point where no transparency was maintained or provided anymore, especially when it comes to moderation of users & their posts and management of subreddits.By early 2016 this was almost 'proved'…

If propaganda was the purpose of that investment then it would have been a terrible one. Major subreddits are very often plastered with anti china stuff. It doesn't even have to be factual. Meanwhile back when i modded a major subreddit with somewhat of a politics focus around the time when the whole situation in Ukraine kicked of russian propaganda accounts were very obvious and common. (relatively new accounts with certain formats of usernames posting short stuff that was found verbatim on similar accounts, etc)

It reminds me of an American study someone once commented here on HN where they looked into this and whilst they found Russian "shilling" substantial they there were surprised to find actually more anti china bots (mainly posting in simple chinese) across platforms like twitter than pro china ones. Pro-china propaganda efforts were found and measured but were largely amateurish, quickly banned and ineffective.

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