Shadowbanning: The secret censoring by social media

Re:Shadowbanning: The secret censoring by social media by webmobdev on Friday February 19, 2021 @03:22PM (#26197592)

I face this issue regularly on Reddit. I've noticed two things:

1. Sometimes it is accidental and some automated filter does this.

2. Sometimes it is done by a mod who didn't like what you posted, and shadowbans the post instead of deleting it. The hope is that you don't find out about this because otherwise you may enquire about the decision, and other mods will get involved in discussing it and over-rule the previous decision.

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Re:Shadowbanning: The secret censoring by social media by tinus_hn on Friday February 19, 2021 @08:24PM (#26200457)

On Reddit only the admins can shadowban, not the mods.

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Re:Shadowbanning: The secret censoring by social media by webmobdev on Saturday February 20, 2021 @07:32AM (#26203660)

By admin, I assume you mean mods who have "full permissions" right? Some of the popular subreddits do have have a lot mods with such rights.

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Re:Shadowbanning: The secret censoring by social media by random_dude_38 on Saturday February 20, 2021 @12:06PM (#26205736)

Im pretty sure only paid janitors aka "anti evil operations" can shadowban. Mods with full permissions are still just mods.

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Re:Shadowbanning: The secret censoring by social media by tinus_hn on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:45PM (#26207785)

Admins are employees of the Reddit company. Moderators typically are not.

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