I wrote "How Reddit Was Destroyed", it went viral, I woke up today with a site-wide shadowban. Go ahead, click my username. I no longer exist.
31 2015-03-27 by [deleted]
I wrote this under suspicion of being shadowbanned as a test to see if it would show up.
I was unbanned about 7 hours later, so that is why it comes up now.
22 comments
34 IntellisaurDinoAlien 2015-03-27
Looks like they lifted the ban to make you look paranoid...
11 OnSpeakerCrab 2015-03-27
I was here when this happened too. He made a different account and a thread that was getting a lot of traction here. That thread is gone now and he's unbanned, but all evidence of it happening is gone.
7 IntellisaurDinoAlien 2015-03-27
That thread is gone? It's still at the top of 'hot' for me.
11 Old-School-Lover 2015-03-27
You do exist.
14 EdwardHolystone 2015-03-27
They definitely banned him and now he was unbanned.
7 [deleted] 2015-03-27
I see the original shadow-banned post and he was s-b but after the other post reach front-page, they 'found the error' and restore the account.
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2 newaccount 2015-03-27
Self posts do not get link karma.
2 Triviaandwordplay 2015-03-27
You're not a pilot by any chance, are you?
Just checking....
1 woodmoon 2015-03-27
Didn't this have thousands of upvotes yesterday? And now it has 24? Did this just happen?
-12 CBSAclerk 2015-03-27
lol you're crazy man
5 Rowdy293 2015-03-27
Check his comment karma, it doesn't add up.
1 newaccount 2015-03-27
You mean link kama? Self posts do not get link karma.
1 pjiggapierce 2015-03-27
the post that got him to the front page is not on his profile. only the link to this post. and this post has few comments and nobody has upvoted it... it's definitely not adding up
1 newaccount 2015-03-27
Of course it's not on the profile of this account, because this account did not make the post. Think about it:
Main account gets banned.
Makes new account.
Makes post with new account that reaches the front page.
Which account is going to have the front page post in its history?
If you look at the alt account - shark_shanks_ghost: http://www.reddit.com/user/shark_shanks_ghost/submitted/ - you'll see the front page post. BUT it wont have any link karma because it is a self post and self posts don't get karma on reddit.
1 Rowdy293 2015-03-27
Sorry that too.
-1 [deleted] 2015-03-27
If you delete comments it doesn't delete the points you've got on them..
1 Rowdy293 2015-03-27
Exactly,
-17 girlfriend_pregnant 2015-03-27
I see you just fine... you are full of shit
16 langile 2015-03-27
The account did not exist about an hour ago for me, just refreshed and here it is. He's telling the truth.
3 girlfriend_pregnant 2015-03-27
why would they shadowban and then restore him?
10 BadThingsAreBrewing 2015-03-27
He asked the mods why he was banned.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/30hy5r/i_wrote_how_reddit_was_destroyed_and_it_went/
2 LetsHackReality 2015-03-27
They fear the PR fallout.
14 EdwardHolystone 2015-03-27
They definitely banned him and now he was unbanned.
3 girlfriend_pregnant 2015-03-27
why would they shadowban and then restore him?