Hey all. I'm here to tell you about my experience getting "shadow-banned" on my 8-year-old Reddit account. Short alike others: https://lemmy.today/post/49087735, https://lemmy.today/post/48784920, https://lemmy.today/post/47876190, https://lemmy.today/post/47779751
Almost smart
I basically stopped using Reddit 3 year ago around the whole "Reddit's killing Thirdparty APPS" but, got sucked back in to a niche health/lookmaxing style Sub that I helped Mod for 10 months.
The day of
About a week ago I'm making posts, commenting, Moding, etc, and interactions stop working strangely lets of red error popups, and the "Important Information About Your Reddit Account" notification, saying "after detecting some technical irregularities on your USER_NAME account, we took the extra precaution of locking your account. To unlock your account, reset your password now."
Figuring it out
So, I reset it via my email and log back in. Worried, but it seem top be working.... then a few hours later the same red banner errors when I try to interact with users. So, I view my account on a logged out browser and it says "account suspended"
What to-do?
After filling out both https://www.reddit.com/appeal & https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360000600232 I waited for an email, Reddit notification..... And got nothing about it.
Now, the current non-signed in status is "This account has been banned" & all posts/comments are removed (Mods can still see them as from u/deleted & manually approve them)
When signed in:
- No banner on my account or reason for being banned.
- All public interactions fail with a Red popup error, and my entire history of posts and comments says "Sorry, this post was removed by Reddit’s filters." or "Removed by Reddit"
Why?
What did I do wrong? Only reddit knows that! We can speculate, but, there is no point really. Reddit's TOS allows them to!
How I feel about it
I feel disrespected, gaslit, lied to, and discriminated against. Sad, angry, depressed, etc... :( You all know the stages of grief.
Reddit pretending there's a technical issue to me, but banning me without even saying it, and removing all my past posts & comments is very disheartening. From my personal experience, Reddit has proven to be largely a waste of time, and very much uninvestable.
Moving forward
Well, I'm not gonna make another Reddit account just for the same thing to happen, that would be me participating in (as I see it) a toxic relationship. I still get other random Reddit notifications (modmail, streak messages, etc) I can't do anything with. It's like Reddit is teasing me now. This guy has a good point https://lemmy.today/post/47176601/22123471
A little help?
Anyway, I know there is a lot of hate for conservative/Christian views around here, so any TIPS on where to find a 'safe space' to be me & express my self, and how to limit/block toxicity would be appreciated.
Maybe this is a sign from God, that my time is better offline.
I don't think we should force people to provide charity, and that's what the USA government was doing. I believe charity should be a choice from the heart on the giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7
Deuteronomy 16:17
Related https://www.compassion.com/blog/bible-verses-about-giving/
Using Bible verses to justify murdering millions of poor black people while dooming others to a life with AIDS is disgusting and sick. Jesus would have a pretty strong opinion about the monstrous belief you just stood up for.
What's funny about you trying to use Bible verses like this is that you don't realize you're accidentally admitting you do not want to give anything to these needy people and therefore even by your out of context verses you are acting against the Bible. You cannot argue for how other people want their taxes spent, you can only speak for yourself. And you are saying you don't want your money to be spent on helping people. You choose to not "give to charity."
The "proportion" part of the second verse actually sounds specifically like a tax. Lol.
So let's see, you don't want to help the poor, you're vain, and you support Nazis who have killed many thousands of Africans and hate and treat immigrants disgustingly badly. You are about as opposite to what a Christian claims to be as a person can get. If you were reading and following the Bible you absolutely wouldn't be here trying to shield yourself against valid criticism of your morality with the Bible. That's literally evil and sacrilegious.
If you want to live by the Bible, I'd recommend starting with taking a verse like this seriously:
Leviticus 19:34
There are many more like it: https://biblestudyforyou.com/bible-verses-about-immigrants-and-refugees/
The Bible is very clear about treating neighbors, immigrants, and the poor well. All of that is contrary to the Republican agenda.
Hmmm. They do seem to be contradictory in the way you choose to frame it. Although, I feel that many parts of that frame is a straw man bad faith deception.
“Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.” – Hebrews 13:2 (good stuff, thanks fro sharing!)
I rightly point out that you're a hypocrite and a fraud and all you do is whine about bad faith. Ironic. People die because you are not just unchristian, but anti-christian. And you try to defend your support for murder, uncharitability, and cruelty with the Bible. One must conclude you don't read the Bible because it's full, front to back, of the reasons you'd be hellbound. Nazis never change.