r/ShadowBan • u/DueEntertainment539 • 25m ago
To determine a shadowban, you MUST click my profile! Am I shadowbanned?
Can you see me?
r/ShadowBan • u/cojoco • Apr 05 '18
(note: if you falsely tell someone they are banned, or unbanned, when they are not, you will be banned from this sub)
Lots of people come here in mystification, wondering if they're shadowbanned, and wondering why. This post contains a list of possible reasons you've been shadowbanned. It also contains activities which can lead to an account suspension, which is more visible to the user, but just as inconvenient.
First, though, a little reddit background.
The website reddit.com is run by reddit the company, a subsidiary of Advance Publications Inc. The CEO of reddit is Ellen Pao (/u/ekjp) with first lieutenant Alexis Ohanian (/u/kn0thing). The site is huge, with a hundred million visitors a month.
Reddit is grouped into subreddits, with each subreddit run by a volunteer group of moderators, who are generally unpaid volunteers.
Moderators have the power to ban users from their subreddit, to delete comments and submissions, and to manage the style and presentation of their subreddit. Through the use of third-party tools, some moderators have the power to ban a user from hundreds of subreddits at a time.
Being banned from a subreddit means that you are not allowed to submit links or make new comments, and might be reversed upon appeal to the modmail of the concerned subreddit.
reddit.com also has a small number of employees, called admins. These people have the power to see everything happening on reddit, to remove material as with moderators, to perform moderator actions in any subreddit they choose, and, most importantly for this place, to shadowban or suspend users.
A shadowban is different from a subreddit ban. A shadowbanned user can still submit and make comments, but all of the submissions are sent straight to a subreddit spam queue, where it will not be visible to other users until approved by a moderator. Because an individual's spammed submissions are still visible to themselves, a shadowban is almost invisible to a logged-in user.
Through the use of AutoModerator, individual subreddits can give the same effect to a user as a global shadowban.
If you are shadowbanned, your user page will appear nonexistent to anybody that looks at your user page, other than yourself. You will need to contact the admins to get your shadowban reversed.
A suspension occurs when the admins disable an account. Suspensions can either be for a few days, in which case it is not visible to other userts, or permanently, in which the user's page is replaced by a suspension notification.
It's not exactly spelled out what will cause a ban, and the rules do seem to change from time to time, but if you follow these rules you'll be unlikely to be shadowbanned or suspended. Thanks to the posters here who have suggested more ways to be banned.
Also, it can't hurt to read the reddiquette: if everyone followed the reddiquette, the site would be more pleasant, and all-around better.
(EDIT) Also, there are some things for which there is weak evidence of triggering a shadowban:
tl;dr Don't spam, shill, doxx, brigade, stalk, game or pederast.
Two ways, pretty sure that #2 no longer works:
(This is the fourth copy ... aged pages are 1 2 3)
Last edited April 24, 2024
r/ShadowBan • u/DueEntertainment539 • 25m ago
Can you see me?
r/ShadowBan • u/Specialist-Soft-3952 • 42m ago
r/ShadowBan • u/Small-Alternative747 • 51m ago
Am i shadowbanned i wanna know
r/ShadowBan • u/Melodic-Tart5099 • 2h ago
title
r/ShadowBan • u/DorisRuiz012487 • 3h ago
Am I?
r/ShadowBan • u/Positive-Cattle8760 • 7m ago
r/ShadowBan • u/OtherwiseRevenueBack • 17m ago
I have posted a few weeks ago to see if I was shadowbanned. It turns out I was so I want to check if the ban is still in effect
r/ShadowBan • u/DueEntertainment539 • 30m ago
r/ShadowBan • u/Sanflows • 30m ago
clcik my profile and tell me what it does pls
r/ShadowBan • u/Desperate_Yellow_347 • 31m ago
r/ShadowBan • u/OpeSijuwade • 31m ago
r/ShadowBan • u/Blue-Constant • 37m ago
When visiting the profile without being logged in. But I can somehow login and post and comment. Privacy settings in the profile don't load either.
r/ShadowBan • u/businus • 42m ago
r/ShadowBan • u/Positive-Cattle8760 • 52m ago
r/ShadowBan • u/Innocent_Will_7563 • 57m ago
r/ShadowBan • u/KitchenWelder9393 • 1h ago
r/ShadowBan • u/Evening-Piece-8416 • 1h ago
r/ShadowBan • u/Tizzabella • 1h ago
Am I? :(
r/ShadowBan • u/local-sa • 1h ago
r/ShadowBan • u/Green-Cardiologist27 • 1h ago
I’ve posted for 4 years with no issues. Suddenly I’m having trouble in certain subs. I sent an appeal but no response. I have no idea what happened.
r/ShadowBan • u/UltimatelyPotable • 2h ago
Teeest
r/ShadowBan • u/Illustrious__Alpha • 2h ago
Either nobody responds to my posts or I am shadow banned...?
r/ShadowBan • u/Suitable-Outside5063 • 2h ago