Comments on: Banned from Reddit.

By: shari

shari — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:11:59 +0000

I’ve been banned and don’t know how to get unbanned. Our intern posted everything to reddit.com instead of entertainment or pics. Now none of our articles show up. We’re an entertainment website – we would like to clear this up but don’t know how to fix it. feedback is on vacation.

By: The Software Comics Guy

The Software Comics Guy — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:05:20 +0000

Yup, also got the 0 point ban. Wouldn’t have known it unless I’d read your blog… I wouldn’t care if they banned me, but at least they should have the courtesy to message or mail me about it.
Lame!

By: Mayonesa

Mayonesa — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:32:21 +0000

Anything that the Crowd doesn’t like gets voted down or reported at Reddit.

The admins… god help them trying to watch herd on that bunch of monkeys.

I have not been banned yet to my knowledge, but I post a lot of news stories, most of which have no political bias that I can detect.

I also post stuff from my blog, which is third front realist, and that offends many from both right and left.

In general, it seems to me that Reddit is a good place to meet folks goofing off at their underpaid, underimportant jobs, and they have raging ego compensation problems to boot.

I recommend Y Combinator instead.

By: smallgovisbest

smallgovisbest — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:21:17 +0000

Sorry I should have been more clear that the4 feedback form will not work from the account. When I go there the captcha section no longer appears. From the new account, it does not accept the captcha and just reloads the page with a new captcha. Strange.

By: dsandler

dsandler — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 05:01:12 +0000

http://www.reddit.com/feedback/

By: smallgovisbest

smallgovisbest — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:58:50 +0000

I’ve recently found that I no longer can post comments, reply to comments, or post links on reddit. After it became apparent that I was being prevented from posting. I created a new account and I can post to that account, for the time being. I definitely feel like I have been censored. I do not see any easy way to contact reddit to attempt to get my previous account functional again.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to contact reddit support?

By: infomate

infomate — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:55:13 +0000

I totally understand you guys. I’ve seen a lot of unfairness in different web sites, not only reddit, so me and my friends thought that it would be very interesting to create a content sharing web site as a social experiment where all content is managed by users. No more heavy-handed administrators and over-zealous moderators. Will users be able to control content in a sensible way by themselves? Please check it out and see what you think. We appreciate any comment.

By: JohnIdol

JohnIdol — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:46:23 +0000

got banned like a motherfucker too – I wasn’t even submitting my own stuff – jeez

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:32:28 +0000

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.

By: Jay O

Jay O — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:37:37 +0000

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.

By: FormerRedditUser

FormerRedditUser — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:26:10 +0000

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.

By: dsandler.org ≡ Banned again.

dsandler.org ≡ Banned again. — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:45:55 +0000

[...] 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. [...]

By: dsandler

dsandler — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:45:40 +0000

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

Weird.

By: dsandler

dsandler — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:42:12 +0000

No word. Still banned. *sigh*

By: dsandler

dsandler — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:44:19 +0000

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

By: dsandler

dsandler — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:39:55 +0000

@rod – stupid WordPress converted your double-hypen in to an en-dash. Best practice: use .

By: dsandler

dsandler — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:38:05 +0000

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!

By: Rod Begbie

Rod Begbie — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:57:17 +0000

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

By: Rod Begbie

Rod Begbie — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:53:43 +0000

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

By: dsandler

dsandler — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:52:15 +0000

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?