My understanding is that mods can silently remove content from their subreddits, but it will still show up in your comment-history. However, admins can silently remove content and it will NOT be in your comment history. Well, when I’m logged out, I noticed some of my comments were “removed” but when I’m logged in they show up. Looking at the comments more closely, I don’t believe they broke any rules…at least not site-wide rules. I received no notification that they were removed either.
Further, these comments ALL related to the Trump/Zelensky interview. I get the need to moderate online communities, but there’s something particularly dystopian about quietly censoring someone for expressing political-speech you don’t like, and doing it in such a way that they (theoretically) don’t even realize they’ve been censored (if they’re not weird paranoid fucks like me). You’ve just secretly put a bubble around them, all for the crime of political speech you don’t like.
Here are some screenshots to verify what I’m saying:
https://i.imgur.com/kff8INQ.png
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And so the same thing happened when I posted this exact post (above the “…”) in another sub on Reddit…one I participate in regularly. And here’s how that looks:
Yup that’s shadowbanning for ya.
I think it’s only on certain subreddits though?
So /r/law was in the link above as [removed] and I just tried posting something VERY innocuous there, and here’s what happened within SECONDS:
And it doesn’t happen always on /r/marchagainstnazis, after the BS:
I think a shadowban used to be all or nothing, but now it’s possible on a sub by sub basis and possibly even temporarily.
If a person who is shadowbanned tries to post a comment, a moderator can approve that comment so it shows up.
So I had the [removed] thing happen before on every sub but /r/conservative. IDGAF about the conservative one. /r/marchagainstnazis, I did say something that could be construed as advocating violence. I said something about Nazis staying visible so we know who to put against a brick wall after this is over. Vague…but yeah, I get it. Though I comment there regularly, without issue, until I call this out?
/r/law, they [remove]d me when I said " I would vote for her for POTUS in a heartbeat. But flyover country would never let a black woman be President; it’d undermine their dumbshit egos too much. Imagine Obama’s presidency, but ALSO a woman…we’d have someone new and worse that Trump building an alt-alt-alt-right incel circlejerkoff cult, and rising to power by spouting memes and literally showing up to debates and such in unwashed sleepwear.
…and they’d win, because grandpa thinks they look like “good wholesome” (read as “white”) boys (read as “males”)."
Which was also [removed].
And I don’t know what I said in /r/worldnews.
But okay. So you’re saying it’s a subreddit based shadowban? Who initiates that? And more importantly, why is it removed from my profile? Sure, remove it from your sub…but I should be able to reference my own words outside of a sub.
I honestly don’t know, I haven’t had a Reddit account for nigh on 2 years. I only lurk there now and honestly I shouldn’t even do that. I’ve completely given up on all social media outside of the fediverse.
I’ve been there since 07. Since like 2022/3, they started getting weird and have permabanned me a few times (never happened before).
I created this account here after the last permaban, which I appealed along with the others…and somehow magically they gave me a sheepish apology and unbanned my account?! I’m kind of over it. But I’m still there. And there are certain communities there which aren’t easily replicated here, like /r/phillywiki. But…I’m over Reddit for the most part. It’s the people I’m not over…