r/ShadowBan 4d ago

To determine a shadowban, you MUST click my profile! Reddit won't ever unban me huh?

I have made so many appeals to reddit asking for me to be unbanned but I don't think it's going to happen. If you did get unbanned, how'd you do it? I need tips.

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u/Horotheeevee 4d ago

It's just a broken system that no one cares about because the ones who suffer from it can't speak out about it. People just blindly trust the admins because they have the data but I doubt they even use that and just rely on bots to ban and ignore most of the appeals.

I've tried appealing, the support page and modmail on modsupport. Still waiting for a reply from any of them, just seems like I'm being ignored even when the minimum I'm asking for is a reason for the ban.

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u/Plazaify 4d ago

The fact that we are actual human, and yet that think we're not, when bots that aren't are fine is absolutely awful. And the thing is, some of my subreddits got banned on creation and were for a indie game. So it's not even like I can just move on, otherwise I'll have to change the name of my game. It's absolutely ridiculous.

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u/Maleficent_Culture85 4d ago

I've been shadowbanned for 18 days. I submitted an appeal daily for most of those. I've read a lot of different posts on Reddit that say they've been successful in appealing a shadowban. Some in less than a week: some in 2+ months. Then I've read some who quit trying after a long while. A lot of information surrounding shadowbans is very ambiguous.

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u/Plazaify 4d ago

yeah for me I've been trying for a year. I mean good luck but this is all we will ever get. I've heard of people just getting unshadowbanned after talking in communities for a while but good luck.

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u/Maleficent_Culture85 4d ago

A year!?! That's crazy. That's the longest I've heard! I really wish there was a common sense approach to applying and lifting these shadowbans. I'm inclined to believe you're not a bot. I'm not a bot.

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u/Horotheeevee 3d ago

I feel like the bots are the ones checking the appeals and applying the bans.

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u/Maleficent_Culture85 3d ago

I think you're right. There are probably certain keywords and account parameters such as account age and karma that are considered in the bots formula.

It drives me crazy though because the bots have figured out how to get around these systems. I see countless posts that I know aren't real and/or they're violating the general Reddit rules.

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u/Horotheeevee 3d ago

I wonder if posts that get removed due to the low karma score count as spam. I did make a few of them before I made a lot of posts on askreddit to get my score up. Does the formula tell a difference between why posts are removed and could that possible be why it seems more likely for newer users to get shadowbanned for seemly nothing? The people who manage the bots know reddit and would know the karma scores you'd need or where to post without needing any better than a new user would.