[Terr_]

> last year

I dunno, a bit before that my only account of 10+ years got sitewide shadowbanned without warning or explanation, with everything I ever wrote (and all replies to it) vanishing from public view. I used their appeal page, got a message saying it was an error and my appeal was approved... and then it stayed broken and and appeals won't work because it says the account is normal.

I resurrected an ancient career-advice-throwaway account to ask for help, and the same thing happened. And their generic support site is a total black-hole. I'm not ashamed to say the process was way more emotionally-devastating than I would have expected, as it was my primary social-media identity.

That certainly tore off some blinders about how close we are to being sharecroppers to our Kafkaesque system overlords.

[qingcharles]

I briefly talked to Huffman (u/spez) about this during ModWorld and followed up with him later. Many of us made it clear that the appeal process is essentially a black hole. Send me an email (on my profile) and I will ping you if I get any further info from him.

[Terr_]

Thanks, I sent an e-mail titled "HackerNews / Reddit issues", with some more detail about what I remember. (e.g. How moderators could approve a comment and then it would be forcibly re-blocked by a mysterious force.)

I'll have to look into some kind of system that can multi-publish things I really care about in-between social-media sites and my own (woefully abandoned) blog.

[bestouff]

So if you know someone you can get out of shit. We're in a privilege-based society.

[qingcharles]

Well, that's usually the case with everything, sadly. The only way I know how to get Meta accounts back is generally to pay an employee off to put a ticket in.

I don't have a banned account with Reddit (fortunately), but I know those who have had bad experiences, so I thought it was worth bringing up.

[amyames]

Meta sometimes responds to correspondence sent to their Oversight Board, c/c a copy to office of the CEO with your ID on the hacker way address.

This worked (this year) to restore an account of mine that was locked for over 8 years that none of their systems could or would review or resolve. They never replied to the letter, they just silently unlocked it and flagged my profile as verified.

I never received any warning or any reason for the suspension. I have a common name but am not impersonating anybody.

It ended up being a waste of time . I can no longer see friends or relatives or co workers. It’s all “for you” spam and I deleted it of my own accord after a week anyway.

On topic: yes the Overton window either moved a LOT on Reddit or they’re overwhelmed or don’t care anymore. Purely anecdotal in favor of a window shift; there are a lot of comments in /r/musked that would have gotten you a wide reaching if not site wide ban just a year ago (and still get you bans from /r/elonmusk and /r/teslamotors even if you’ve never posted there.) but for , I think, obvious reasons it’s almost impossible to take it “too far” on that subject or say anything harsh enough about that company or its owner on Reddit now.

Many examples of people or subjects that were untouchable and met with great force just a year or two ago that are fair game now. While probably not against the rules on HN, I don’t want to get into it. I stuck with a safer , mostly not political one.

Left-on-left criticism of the DNC is also apparently wide open now that the election is over. It would have been moderated or banned just two or three months ago. Not only does nobody care , but sometimes it’s even heavily upvoted.

I’m only in the USA for work and have no opinion on this but it’s hard not to notice it.