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I noticed this afternoon that I’ve been silently banned from my favorite shiny-things-on-the-intertubes website, reddit.

Last night I came across something that I thought the programming.reddit.com crowd would enjoy: The Future of Vim on the Mac, a survey of the fractured state of the Mac OS X Vim port. There are lots of OS X geeks and vim geeks on Reddit, so it seemed a natural thing to post. +1 Informative.

This morning I went to check programming.reddit (to see if my article had spurred any discussion), and didn’t see it in the first couple of pages of “hot” stories. Not so hot a topic, I guess. I went to my list of links and comments to see what the score was: zero. OK, nobody cares.

On a whim I decided to dig through the list of all programming articles by date to see what other stuff came up around the same time. After all, if my story lost the popularity contest, it lost to something else, right?

It’s not there.

I skimmed back about 10 pages before satisfying myself that it was simply nowhere to be found. So I deleted the link from Reddit and re-posted it. About an hour later, its score is still at 0 (didn’t these things originally start at +1?) and it’s still not anywhere on the site. Not hot, not new, “rising” or “all.” Zilch.

As you can see, I posted a handful of other links (submitted both to programming and reddit proper) to see if I could get anything to show. The answer, friends, is no.

Any other members of the reddit silent minority out there? No? Just me?

15 Responses to “Banned from Reddit.”

  1. JBQ says:

    Reddit might be putting themselves in shaky grounds by censoring you - because it means that they implicitly assume responsibility for filtering the content on the site, and therefore could be sued for failing to filter some illegal content.

  2. dsandler says:

    Interesting point. “We do not filter” seems like a reasonable defense in copyright/obscenity charges, but if it turns out you do filter, well, that looks pretty bad.

  3. Rod Begbie says:

    Interestingly, I can see your posts from your user page, I can up-arrow them, but when I click through to the details, it shows no points:

    http://myskitch.com/rodbegbie/python_programming_language_–_official_website__reddit.com_-20070929-164753.png

    Ping alexis@… and ask him what’s happened. I’d suspect bug over foul-play.

    Or if you like, I can submit this blogpost to reddit ;)

  4. dsandler says:

    Hey, I think my comments are being blocked now, too. Does anyone see the dsandler comment beginning with “Although I’ve sold my email soul to Google…” as a child of this comment?

  5. Rod Begbie says:

    BTW, something funky happened to that URL when I posted it. It lost a hyphen! http://urltea.com/1m8q

  6. Rod Begbie says:

    No comment seen. I suspect you’ve somehow gotten hit with some sort of “Is A Spammer” flag.

  7. dsandler says:

    I wonder if it’s due to my participation in the adobe.com CGI null byte exploit thread. I’m a computer security researcher, dammit!

  8. dsandler says:

    @rod - stupid WordPress converted your double-hypen in to an en-dash. Best practice: use <a href>.

  9. dsandler says:

    Sent off an email. We’ll see what happens.

  10. dsandler says:

    No word. Still banned. *sigh*

  11. dsandler says:

    And just like that, my comments have begun appearing again. Stuff I wrote while “banned” is still hidden.

    Weird.

  12. dsandler.org ≡ Banned again. says:

    […] Bah. Just posted a comment to this reddit thread about e-voting and noticed that my comment started at +0 instead of +1; on a hunch, I logged out and reloaded the page, and, sure enough, I’m banned from reddit again. […]

  13. FormerRedditUser says:

    This happens all the time with Reddit. Rather than outright ban users, they mute them without any indication. The muting is done by IP address, but the ability to see your own comments is done by user name. Ostensibly this is to fight spam (like a honeypot), but there are indications that it can be invoked automatically with the report button — apparently the oversight on report is intermittent, and the user is frequently just muted until an admin looks into it. An associate of mine pointed otut that this has the convenient side effect of maintaining the user’s ad impressions without allowing them a voice.

  14. Jay O says:

    I had the same experience. I tried putting two of my blog posts out there for discussion and they disappeared. Both dealt with political issues from a conservative view point.

  15. Tom says:

    I’m having the same trouble. I noticed that I hadn’t gotten any comments on my comments for around 5 months, and after a little thinking decided to log out to see what happened. The comments aren’t there. My username is trjames. The user page shows up fine when I’m logged in, however when I log out and try to look at my user page, I get a 404.

    No idea why this happened. I’ve only ever submitted 4 stories, not remotely spam. My comments usually got good reviews. I’ve just been, it seems, Stalinized from reddit.

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