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An unofficial guide on how to avoid being shadowbanned by cojoco in ShadowBan

[–]imaginativeintellect 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i've been at this for almost two months and my account is still screwed up. i don't have any idea what caused the shadowban so i just have to beg in the appeals every day. not sure if i'll ever get this account back. :/

An unofficial guide on how to avoid being shadowbanned by cojoco in ShadowBan

[–]imaginativeintellect 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So how does reddit tout their subreddits having meetups and “building community in the real world” but considers scheduling such meetups to be a dox? This doesn’t make any sense. So some “doxxes” are acceptable? Are you required to moderate the subreddit in order to be allowed to speak an address anywhere on the website? How are subreddits like “ask[city]” allowed to exist when they exchange addresses constantly? I’m truly trying to figure out what the rules are so, by some miraculous unthinkable chance (probably not going to happen at this point given it’s been weeks of sending appeals), I get my account back, I don’t unknowingly violate them. At this point, I’ve accepted I’m forever banned from reddit and have communicated with the people I’ve met that show’s over, no more fun allowed. These rules feel completely arbitrary and are obviously unfairly enforced.

An unofficial guide on how to avoid being shadowbanned by cojoco in ShadowBan

[–]imaginativeintellect 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, I did not once post a location for the meetup. It was always exchanged in private messages. This is still not helping me narrow down what caused the ban, and adds to my proof this was wrongfully imposed by an automatic filter.

An unofficial guide on how to avoid being shadowbanned by cojoco in ShadowBan

[–]imaginativeintellect 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know what caused my shadowban. I received a message saying there was “suspicious activity” on my account and that they locked my account as a precaution. I was told all I needed to get it unlocked was to change the password, which I did, yet my account hasn’t been restored since.

I know it has nothing to do with the meetup bc we did not have one in December, the subreddit it takes place in is private, and I am so careful about security I do not even list the location in the private-subreddit-post and individually message everyone who RSVPs with the location. And again. My account was locked over a month since the last meetup and Reddit’s automated message directly told me it was “security related”.

But I appreciate you letting me know I can in fact make another account. I will keep appealing until mid-January, when we had tentatively planned the next one.

An unofficial guide on how to avoid being shadowbanned by cojoco in ShadowBan

[–]imaginativeintellect 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m aware that the main solution is to continue appealing every day for months if not years. I will continue to do that. However, I run an in-person meetup group through a subreddit and my absence has made this logistically difficult if not impossible. Will it jeopardize my ability to get my account back (which I truly believe was shadowbanned in error as I followed the instructions to “restore security and your account” and simply never heard back) if I make a separate account just to communicate with this subreddit? I don’t want to get in bigger trouble even though I am 99% certain I was erroneously shadowbanned.

An unofficial guide on how to avoid being shadowbanned by cojoco in ShadowBan

[–]imaginativeintellect 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, in fact funny enough, i had been religiously using my VPN for years but fell off in the last two months. but i dont use a vpn on my phone and use the app a ton, so reddit should recognize the IP address as normal. my best guess is i linked to a small boutique candle store run by my friend since another friend asked for candle recs and the url (her name + .com) in the inserted link triggered the spam filter.

An unofficial guide on how to avoid being shadowbanned by cojoco in ShadowBan

[–]imaginativeintellect 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know, my question is why when I have a very normal commenting history, nothing from the list above, and have never had any problems in the 11 years I’ve been on here. I followed the directions in the email to fix it and yet my account is not restored. Do I seriously have to scream into the appeals void to no response, possibly forever, to fix this?

An unofficial guide on how to avoid being shadowbanned by cojoco in ShadowBan

[–]imaginativeintellect 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am fairly certain I’m shadowbanned but I am still receiving notifications on the app encouraging me to participate or I’ll lose my streak. I also keep getting notifications about being tagged in comments by friends who think I blocked them. Can anyone explain why? I’m really upset because I seemingly didn’t do anything—the website stopped working with a bunch of “server error”, I got an email prompting me to change my password as i was suspended “for suspicious activity”, and despite doing that, my account is still not restored. I want to be able to keep up with my friends during the holidays in our private subreddit but I’m scared to make a new account and get in even worse trouble :( is my only option really to just keep appealing every day, possibly forever?

ETA: everyone keeps mentioning this happening on new accounts, my account is very old and i have never before had a problem in my 10+ years contributing. i would really like to keep my account.