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by Terr_
13 days ago
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You have my sympathies, Reddit is a Kafkaesque nightmare for anyone unlucky enough to hit one of the increasing number of edge-cases and invisible hazards. My decade+ single account (in good standing, maybe one permanent subreddit ban ever, thousands of pages of comments, etc.) got shadowbanned one morning for no reason I've ever been able to find. The appeal was actually "granted", but somehow they didn't actually turn off the evil-bit, and then I couldn't contact anyone because the appeals-page claims my account was normal while all other stuff kept getting removed even after moderators manually approved it. |
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The rigid resistance to preventing users from protecting themselves from a _sitewide permanent ban_ feels ridiculous in retrospect.
I don't know if this is a reach, but it honestly feels like Reddit is trying to do two things:
- monetize attrition (manufacture traffic by forcing users to create new accounts)
- intermittent reinforcement/love bombing. I used to have an ex who performed the exact same pattern; start out loving and affectionate, then rapidly deteriorate into a wrongful accusations (in reddit's case, wrongful bans) which would just become a massive time-sink. Then she would "repeal" or reinstate me to keep me captive/grateful... then repeat the whole cycle again and again.
I was thinking about the panic I felt earlier, and the pattern was pretty much identical- harm, apology, relief, re-engagement, harm again, without ever committing to a low-cost and obvious fix.
I am really really starting to think that Reddit's "ban evasion" system is by design at this point