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

Post by hajile » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 4:43 PM UTC

mns wrote: post #105

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I'm utterly amazed at how ban-wild some communities can be. I occasionally see stories of people being banned from communities they've never posted to (reading/lurking only) simply because they also subscribe to another community that is "opposite" of the first. Take /r/novavax_vaccine_talk for example. There was recently a member [1] there who was banned from /r/coronavirus simply for being a member. These people ar…

Ha, it happened to me on Sunday, I posted a message like "We got our booster 1 month ago and didn't have any side-effects" in lockdownskepticism (which is not even an extreme or anti something sub) and started getting messages from pics/netflix/showerthoughts and so on that now I am automatically banned from subs that I never even posted in for posting in a sub that promotes medical misinformation. I send a message s…

Post by hajile » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 4:52 PM UTC

commandlinefan wrote: post #136

darebak wrote: post #125

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Mods are not paid by Reddit, admins are paid but I think that some admins are also modding a few subs.

I'm conspiratorial enough to believe that some of the power mods are being paid, but not by reddit.

Post by detaro » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 4:53 PM UTC

krono wrote: post #220

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I don't disagree with you, let's play devils advocate: To be fair to the companies, the amount of work to fight off bots and bad accounts is quite complicated, costly (both financially, quality of site, reputation wise) and similar to all kinds of frauds gets increasingly more challenging as the fraudsters improve their game. Add in managing the people who are purposely incendiary and not bots. The amount of people g…

> The amount of people getting caught up in the filter is likely quite small. I don't believe that this is the case, though. Subreddit mods often seem to use it against counter-narrative type of posts - a single post could get you shaddow-banned for life on 50 subreddits that all happen to be under that mod's control. Happens often enough. As I mentioned I'm fine with this tool being used against spam.

Post by rsync » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 4:59 PM UTC

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It's the strategy of all the major social players. Several months ago I followed a new cardistry (look it up) personality on Instagram. I scrolled through and "liked" one or two dozen of their performance clips, out of the hundreds that they've posted. My Instagram account was blocked, for "manipulation" or some verbiage like that. Basically, the algorithm thought that I was a bot hired to inflate that person's numbe…

>The Instagram appeals process is to email them a selfie, holding a piece of paper with the current date and something else written on it. Do they also ask you to put a shoe on your head?

Post by kazinator » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 5:06 PM UTC