The admins are banning users who don't appear to be breaking any reddit rules except a tenuous link to some sites

I was /u/TwylaSohen. I've been shadowbanned and none of the admins respond in any way. In fact, it's worse than that. Any Reddit account that logs in from my static IP address is immediately shadowbanned as well.

Mind you, I haven't heard one word from admins as to why or what now. What would you do, right? So I sent out my goodbye messages. The question seemed to be 'why.' Searches were done, this post was found, it was a least a clue. That's when OP here, kindly, posted thi sto run down one of the leads about what might've happened.

From what I can glean from this thread, thank you /u/Alphadog33 and /u/lolthr0w, wrongly being identified as a spammer in this post wouldn't have lead to being shadowbanned. It would've lead to certain domains being banned, instead, if I've got that right.

Which still leaves my mystery unsolved, but less murky. If it's admin policy to ignore messages I send them, and a week after it happened that seems fair to guess, I'll never know what happened. Get this, I have to block http://reddit.com/ entirely now, otherwise other any redditors around here or on wifi that so much as check their messages will be shadowbanned and given the cold shoulder about it as well.

Since my posts came up in this thread, though, let me say something in my own defense.

Seems to me this crowd, understandably, has a keener sense of spam and what spammers do than it does "the good stuff" and what good submitters do. If you think about it, you know the good stuff. It's what you're hoping to find when you check what's up lately, even if you last checked just a few minutes ago. Even when you're only subscribed to some very narrowly-scoped subs.

In /u/snarkypants' post, I'm flatly accused of a few things.

One was posting a link to an article at eunter.net. I did that, not knowing that the article'd been scraped from Bloomberg. In hindsight, I guess I thought it was some European site but that it was spot on subject for a couple of subs I like. The provenance of the article is lousy, but one way to distinguish that errant post from spam was that it got over fifty worthless Internet points.

The author speculates on my sinister motives in posting links to webandtechs.com. I did that, but it seems worthwhile to mention that it was literally the news that the FDA had approved a walking exoskeleton that made it possible for paralyzed people to walk again. I posted that link to /r/Health, and a couple of tech news subs, appropriately enough /r/technews and /r/technewz. Oh, and the news that Google Earth Pro was available for free, which I posted to those tech news subs.

There was a kid that developed a cheap, sophisticated DIY prosthetic arm kit for amputees. Posted that link to /r/technewz on moxy value alone. Not as part of a master plan to rig Google results. Mine were not the darkest motives in the annals of crime. I'd argue quite the opposite. Those were news.

I've still got my own row to hoe, but I'd say this to /u/snarkypants if I still had the chance: People post to multiple subreddits not just to harvest votes, but to sustain isolated communities. The critical failure model I see in your method is that you've ignored the size in subscribers of the subreddits being posted to. The vast majority of anything I posted was to subreddits with two-digit subscriber counts, three- and four-digit size subs less often. The way you'd keep a small fire burning, by stoking it more often with smaller branches. Those posts you singled me out for were fit for those subs, even if one of my posts was on a domain that'd stolen quality content from another site.

I played a good game but it was small ball. Posting to multiple subs not to bulk post for it's own sake, but to put "the good stuff" where people'd be looking for it.

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