Even worse is the Reddit approach, where leaving your VPN on will get your account shadow banned permanently. But you are not notified of that, so if you are wondering why nobody is replying to your comments, check in a private session if you can visit your profile page.

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jijijijij 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Check reddit.com/appeals some time after creating an account. If you are auto shadow banned, you can appeal.

	▲	Terr_ 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Something like that happened to me, my 10+ year account and everything I've ever written just vanishing one morning. Even posts to a subreddit I moderate were repeatedly removed after every approval. No idea why, (the "wrong" public Wi-fi?) but my appeal was granted and nothing was fixed. Now I can't contact anyone, and the appeals page falsely claims that my account is in good standing and refuses to operate. When I went looking for help from a throwaway account that I made many years ago for resume reviews, the exact same thing happened. So at this point, I only lurk occasionally, because I'm not going to go through that social hell again, and it sounds like moderation failures have only gotten worse in the years since.

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why-o-why 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

i can live without reddit and hackernews. i can't live without online banking, bill paying, insurance, healtchare portals, etc.

it is funny i have been probing HN for years, and i've found a number of cases when everything is normal, but i check the account from another device and it isn't there, or is free of posts despite having made many. yet i would do the same if i was an admin trying to keep a walled-garden free of trolls.

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drnick1 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How about not using Reddit at all? It's awful.