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Reddit communities with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

“Et tu, /r/startrek?”

I feel your pain. I "and my ax"ed a comment thread on /r/pics and got a ban.

When I went back to it, the entire thread was just deleted comments. Shadow-banned?

When someone finally responded to a plea for an explanation and we tried to discuss the error and a path toward a fix

no context was available
no one could explain the ban
no one could confirm the ban was justified
no one had an idea why "and my ax" was somehow bad in any context
no one could offer anything I could do - apologies, I was thinking - to reinstate access

They just said "I don't know why but you're still banned" or so and that was it.

Power-tripping mod shadow-banned everyone in a thread? Some mod whose spelling I corrected, somewhere, projected guilt as wrath? We'll never know.