Put it this way – if anyone else had submitted content from my site, they would have earned karma points for being a good reddit user; but when I do it with precisely the same content, it’s spam. In other words, your classification of the content is dependent not on the content, but on the poster. And that’s wrong and broken.

In fact, if you can earn karma points submitting my content, but I can only get banned as a spammer and you can then continue to earn karma points submitting content I write while banned, then your anti-spam mechanism isn’t an anti-spam mechanism, it’s ethically theft.

Hence this page and the automatic redirect to it if you try to link any other content here on reddit.com

reddit is great, but lets face it – They clearly don’t A+ coders developing it.

I am really disappointed, I have been on reddit for almost two years. It has become
my favorite site. I did not say anything to cause me to be banned, that I can find.
I have a good amount of comment/link karma….

I will see what happens in the next few days, if it does not get fixed I will delete the account,
take the reddit stickers off my truck, and stop using the site.

http://www.bannination.com doesn’t do that sort of thing. It’s were a lot of pissed off Fark users went.

It’s lazy and corrupt.

There’s even a sub-Reddit for people to see if they’ve been banned:

http://www.reddit.com/r/ShadowBanned

It exists because it’s really popular for someone to read your posts, decide they don’t like your opinions, and then report you.

And Reddit like a zombie just goes ahead with the ban.

And then they try to make up for it with this stupid system of “karma” points. What a laughably stupid system! Nobody needs to give you any reason for a downvote by writing comments. They can just get a page listing all your submissions and hit the downvote on all of them just for the heck of it. During my time at Reddit, I have seen my karma fluctuate wildly from day to day, probably because of such behavior by people unhappy with something I said. Ultimately, I stopped paying attention to that metric altogether. Eventually, I stopped paying attention to Reddit too . . .

When I used to hang out there, I never found anything useful or worth reading by browsing through Reddit that I wouldn’t have found anyways by doing my usual rounds of new websites, but at least I wouldn’t have to read a bunch of inane comments and other such nonsense. I would say, if you have been banned, good for you. Think good riddance to bad rubbish, and move on. I consider Reddit part of the internet wastelands. It attracts a specific type of internet user, the user who gets his daily adrenaline rush by ganging up on some stranger with flame attacks along with a bunch of other such adrenaline junkies. No wonder it is a fringe that most regular users of the internet have never heard of. As I read in one particularly tasteless but apt joke, Reddit is like the special olympics. Even if you win, you are still retarded!

Real Redditors value their account and karma, trolls don’t give a crap about being banned and opening a new account. What a brilliant system. Shine on the people who care about the site and offer a ‘punishment’ to trolls that has no impact on them whatsoever.

Banning a user from a web forum in such a way that the banned user is unaware of the ban. Usually takes the form of showing that user’s posts/profile/etc. only to that user; other users never see them. Considered underhanded chicken-shit behavior

A bunch of people were Shadowbanned form fark, as they pay for “total fark” privilages it caused a stir. They are now to be found at Bannination(p) a forum of ubertrolls and nasties, but no one gets banned form there without the whol site discussing it and i’ve never known it to happen.

Please don’t:
Complain about too many stories on a particular topic.
Complain when a duplicate story finds more success than the original.
Moderate a story based on your opinion of its source.

When the rules say it’s fine, why do you think anyone’s going to think it’s wrong?

Good luck.