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It may not be that long compared to some of yours out here. It stings because that account was my main account, so many memories in it and I even met my wife through it. Unfortunately, I have recently experienced what I can only describe as sabotage on my account.

I don't know much about how Reddit and moderation works behind the scenes but recently everything I post in different subs keeps getting auto-removed without any explanation whatsoever. If I message the mods of those subs, then there are only three responses: 1) no response whatsoever, 2) sarcasm and unkindness without actually assisting me, and worse 3) a permanent ban without further elaboration.

Googling "how to report abusive Reddit mods" comes up with a bunch of threads all saying the same thing: there is no way to report them. Additionally, I have encountered individuals who dismiss or deny the existence of moderator abuse within the platform. I've decided it's just not worth my mental stress to put up with this circus and just start anew and keep a low profile. I'm also trying out here in Lemmy, maybe this is better.

Please be better.

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[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 7 points 6 months ago

I don’t know much about how Reddit and moderation works behind the scenes but recently everything I post in different subs keeps getting auto-removed without any explanation whatsoever. If I message the mods of those subs, then there are only three responses: 1) no response whatsoever, 2) sarcasm and unkindness without actually assisting me, and worse 3) a permanent ban without further elaboration.

If you were getting auto-removed on all subs you were either shadowbanned (Reddit admins thought you were a spammer or evading bans) or you were running afoul of commonly copied automod rules. Every sub has their own automod code, but there's a lot of copying of rules, so you could just end up getting removed by the same rule copied to multiple subs. Some common rules remove content from new accounts or accounts without a certain amount of karma. Filters for slurs are pretty common as well.

If you were getting negative responses from all the mods, you either had really bad luck with the mods you contacted or something about your account made them think you weren't joining their sub for positive interaction. Having a lot of negative karma or an initial post or history that looked like you were joining to fight the sub's groupthink might get you sorted into the "don't feel the trolls" bucket. Or you were shadowbanned and the mods just assumed you must have done something wrong. There's no real rules on what legit modding is, so if they get a bad impression they won't assume good faith and spend time explaining things.

Frankly, if everyone is being mean to you it seems kind of unlikely it was totally a "them" problem. A random mod getting off on abusing a user, ok, but multiple mods in different subs just picking on you for no good reason?