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Ask HN: Reddit shadow banned me. What now for a SaaS founder?

2•elemcontrib•6h ago
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.

Comments

znpy•5h 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.

nonvibecoding•5h 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

elemcontrib•5h 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.
sovok_x•5h ago
This doesn't work though. I was banned there 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 stuff they might not like I did is visiting through a proxy due to my country's circumstances. Right after that I tried appeals daily nearly for a week with no reaction whatsoever. So I just deleted my acc, less value for them is better.

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