Re:I'm banned for life from advertising on Meta. Because I t...
by Terr_ on Thursday October 19, 2023 @11:32AM
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A while ago my Reddit account of over 10 years (zero prior issues, bajllions of comments and karma) was randomly killed via a Kafkaesque process I'm calling "Schrodinger's Ban":
1. With zero notification or reason, you are shadow-banned, all your posts/comments are hidden.
2. You use the "Appeals" page, and get a canned apology that it was a mistake with a spam-filter, and a message claiming your account has been restored.
3. Contrary to the message, nothing is actually restored, and instead the Appeals page stops working because it falsely claims your account is already in good-standing!
4. All your messages through unofficial channels (modmail) are also blocked/filtered-to-uselessness so that you can't reach out to anybody.
5. If you load up another established account, like a job-search throwaway from 5 years ago... the exact shame shitty sequence of events kills it too.
So your whole online identity is basically shoved into the 1984 memory hole.
1. With zero notification or reason, you are shadow-banned, all your posts/comments are hidden.
2. You use the "Appeals" page, and get a canned apology that it was a mistake with a spam-filter, and a message claiming your account has been restored.
3. Contrary to the message, nothing is actually restored, and instead the Appeals page stops working because it falsely claims your account is already in good-standing!
4. All your messages through unofficial channels (modmail) are also blocked/filtered-to-uselessness so that you can't reach out to anybody.
5. If you load up another established account, like a job-search throwaway from 5 years ago... the exact shame shitty sequence of events kills it too.
So your whole online identity is basically shoved into the 1984 memory hole.