Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online (ellsberg.substack.com)

So Reddit shadow banned me (you're just left dangling creating content not knowing any better) and Quora banned me outright with a phoney spam claim after submitting meaningful answers on their platform for two years.

You know the drill: "you're banned, don't appeal, go straight to jail, don't pass go. We're not content gobbling narcissists - it's just not working. Ok bye."

As SaaS founders you know Reddit's strategic importance to garnering traffic and launching (or is it?).

So what else are you doing besides the use of ANY social platforms?

For me now it's content sovereignty. My own server, my own blog, and the long hard walk to SEO freedom.

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nonvibecoding · 31m ago

Not sure why you are banned but you can always try to appeal:

https://www.reddit.com/appeals

Each subreddit has its own rules listed in the sidebar, so make sure you check those. What’s allowed in one community might be completely off-limits in another, even if it follows Reddit’s general guidelines

sovok_x · 5m ago

This doesn't work though. I was banned without as much as a single-line explanation after 10+ years of being a normal rule-abiding user which didn't change even up to that point. Maximum strange stuff I did is visiting through a proxy due to my country's circumstances. I tried appeals daily nearly for a week with no reaction whatsoever. So I just deleted my acc, less value for them is better.

elemcontrib · 24m ago

Thank you for that. Yes I did fill out that form. I only realised the shadow ban several months after it was implemented. The clues were not being able to update user handle, server error thrown when accessing profile, content suppression. So it's serverwide. I've decided to move on. I closed my account.

znpy · 43m ago

If more than one platform banned you then maybe the problem is not the platform, maybe it's you.

Your profile is full of you spamming the same thing over and over.

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