Shadowbanning is where you can see the content that you have posted, but it is actually being hidden from everyone else. If you have been shadowbanned, you will usually think everything is normal, until one day you wonder why nobody has interacted with your content. When you try to find your content online while being logged out of your account, you cannot find it, or when you share a link to your content to someone else, they will ask you why you sent them an invalid link. Google and Reddit are particularly bad at shadowbanning. You may have posted 1,000 thoughtful reviews on Google Maps, for them to suddenly hide all of your reviews. You can fill in a form to request a review, but you will never hear back. If you get shadowbanned on Reddit, you will have to create a new account. In both examples you will never find out what caused the shadowban.
We believe this is an awful approach. You may have contributed loads of genuine content, only for one thing that they did not like to mean all of your content will suddenly vanish without you knowing? Shadowbanning shows no accountability and confuses members, and is not a useful function. We believe if you have broken the rules, you should be told about it, and given an opportunity to appeal.
We will never shadowban you. You can either post normally, or you cannot post normally but you will know why.
We believe this is an awful approach. You may have contributed loads of genuine content, only for one thing that they did not like to mean all of your content will suddenly vanish without you knowing? Shadowbanning shows no accountability and confuses members, and is not a useful function. We believe if you have broken the rules, you should be told about it, and given an opportunity to appeal.
We will never shadowban you. You can either post normally, or you cannot post normally but you will know why.
