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Today, I submitted an article I wrote The world needs more non-profit tech companies to /r/technology on Reddit. You can read the article if you're interested but there's nothing particular controversial with in the article. The article got some conversation going but a little bit later, I was banned from submitting from /r/technology.

I replied to the message about my ban and have yet to get a response. I've read the Reddit Content Policy and don't see anything that I've violated. Are Reddit moderators just banning people at will? Is Reddit not interested in blog posts about technology anymore? This puts a scour taste in my mouth and makes me think twice submitting links to Reddit going forward. Maybe its time to become a lurker again.

  • pingveno@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 years ago

    I looked up their posts. They likely ran afoul of an anti-spam algorithm. They have an account that was inactive for four years, then it started posting articles only from that blog and almost entirely to /r/technology.

    Edit: Their mod team is also relatively small (7 non-bot accounts) relative to the number of users (14 million). For reference, a subreddit I moderate has a quarter million users and 8 mods. That’s 32 times the number of mods on a per user basis. So there is every chance that the modmail message has just not been handled yet.

  • Gaywallet (they/it)@beehaw.org
    41·
    2 years ago

    I mean, there are a lot of problems with Reddit moderation, but not reading the rules before submitting and getting banned for ignoring them shouldn’t be surprising. It certainly shouldn’t have been a permanent ban and it should have included an explanation as to why they were banned.

  • Sparsin@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Some of the worse moderation on reddit, the admins know this and ignore the problem.