On October 5th 2019, my Reddit account was permanently site-banned.
Disclaimer: I don't hate the concept of Reddit, but they falsely banned my account and made it impossible for me to prove my innocence, which is imminent suppression.
I was an avid contributor of a subreddit and my posts were well-received by the respective community.
In fact, the trending posts were full of my posts.
Ani625 deletes all of my posts.
On October 4th, I discovered that my posts were suddenly gone (only visible to myself). Every single one. And the most recent post was by a user called /u/ani625, who happened to be one of the two moderators of that subreddit. The post contained the same link I posted 10 hours earlier, a video from Louis Rossman.
The only way this could have happened is that Ani625 has manually deleted all of my posts. Despite my posts obeyed all the rules and were well-received by their community during Ani625's absence.
Also, I have noticed that my new posts are only visible to myself. I was shadow-banned by Ani625.
I contacted Ani625, asking why he has deleted all of my posts. Unsurprisingly, no reply.
I looked at Ani625's profile, and saw that he has more than a whopping four million karma points.
Apparently the most popular Indian Reddit user.
Later that day, because Ani625 has entirely neglected my inquiry, I filed this complaint on /r/ReportTheBadModerator (old.reddit.com), but still, no action was taken at all.
To raise more attention and call for potentially more help, I crossposted that complaint to /r/SubredditDramaDrama (old.reddit.com) and /r/PowerAbuse (old.reddit.com).
The suspension.
While I was writing a comment on an unrelated subreddit (I can't remember which exact one), I was kindly greeted with a red bar that appeared at the top of my screen, informing me that my account has been permanently suspended from the entirety of Reddit.
For what exactly was I site-banned? For the crosspost to /r/powerabuse . It was labelled harassment.
/u/ani625 likely has some lobbying power and legal immunity, similarly to unblockable administrator Bbb23 on Wikipedia. (web.archive.org)
For this one post, I was permanently banned from entire Reddit. If it was an one-day ban, a warning, or maybe a one-week ban at worst, it would have been OK. But a permanent ban is horribly exaggerated.
Failed ban appeals.
I have filed ban appeals explaining this the administrators, but the only responses I got were automated responses from the “Anti-Evil-Operators” (or similar) informing me that my ban is not lifted after a review.
After I explicitly asked the administrators to respond manually and teach me what I can do to get unbanned, I still got the automated response, which means that Reddit apparently automatically generates that response that my ban has been allegedly reviewed while it actually hasn't.
I had hundreds of Karma points when I got banned on Reddit in October 2019.
As a new user, one needs to fight through annoying low karma and low account age posting restrictions. An anti-spam measure under which legitimate users suffer. All my efforts to gain those karma points were put to waste.
Being innocently surpressed like this is obnoxious and feels betraying.
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