My understanding is that mods can silently remove content from their subreddits, but it will still show up in your comment-history. However, admins can silently remove content and it will NOT be in your comment history. Well, when I’m logged out, I noticed some of my comments were “removed” but when I’m logged in they show up. Looking at the comments more closely, I don’t believe they broke any rules…at least not site-wide rules. I received no notification that they were removed either.

Further, these comments ALL related to the Trump/Zelensky interview. I get the need to moderate online communities, but there’s something particularly dystopian about quietly censoring someone for expressing political-speech you don’t like, and doing it in such a way that they (theoretically) don’t even realize they’ve been censored (if they’re not weird paranoid fucks like me). You’ve just secretly put a bubble around them, all for the crime of political speech you don’t like.

Here are some screenshots to verify what I’m saying:

https://i.imgur.com/kff8INQ.png

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And so the same thing happened when I posted this exact post (above the “…”) in another sub on Reddit…one I participate in regularly. And here’s how that looks:

https://i.imgur.com/NzRI5T6.png

  • Lucky_777@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Reddit is dead to me. 15 years of use and it’s now a nazi, right wing shithole. Eventually, all left wing users will be banned.

  • bonegolem@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 days ago

    All against Plebbit, their admins are evil, a lot of power mods are human garbage, and one shouldn’t contribute to that cesspool.

    But I saw about a billion of anti-trump comments. /r/NonCredibleDiplomacy, /r/Ukraine, /r/UkrainianWarVideoReport. If yours were removed as you say, it’s mods, sure as fuck not admins. Mods, rather often, just remove anything they fancy, especially anything that vaguely resembles controversy or a potential headache. No clue if you were wildly out of context or stuff either.

    • dick_fineman@discuss.onlineOP
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      20 hours ago

      It’s not the mods. I’ve talked to the mods of various subs where this happened. Mods can’t [remove] it from your own profile. Only admins can do that.

  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I haven’t kept up to date with Reddit, but it is also my understanding that removed comments by mods are not removed from your comment history, so this looks like something site wide.

    Also user-targeted automod actions (the mod-level version of shadowbanning) were a pain to set up, so it’s more likely to be at the admin-level if it’s happening in multiple subs.

    You can message the mods of one of those subs to ask why. Many will probably assume you’re being removed for a good reason and ignore you, but someone will probably be willing to say “it’s not us”. Humanize your message as much as possible. Mention your account age (if it’s not young) and that you see comments staying up in other subreddits.

  • xor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    13 days ago

    dude, your comments are full of insults and cuss words… i don’t disagree with anything you said, but saying “you’re all fucking idiots and trailer trash” and that sort of thing will totally get you banned there….
    banned on most lemmy communities too….
    anyways what they did is called shadow banning… a lot of times if you tell a troll they’re banned, they immediately log in with a different account to continue trolling… if you shadow ban someone they’ll think nobody commented and give up… it’s evil though, to use it on people who are actually trying to express an idea, even if it’s crass….
    but to save you some trouble:
    ALL of the big subreddits are trash, run by shills, and full of bots and astroturfing… the smaller ones are still a good resource, but i mean… posting on conservative leading with “i’m not a conservative” is asking for a fight….
    it’s not wrong to do… but it’s wrong to expect them to reasonably engage you.

    • dick_fineman@discuss.onlineOP
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      20 hours ago

      Yes, that’s how I figured out what was happening. And I’m not shadowbanned officially. If you’re officially shadowbanned you can appeal it. On /appeal it says I’m not banned and can’t appeal. Further I’ve confirmed with other mods that I’m not banned/etc. from their subs…but I have called Spez out a bunch. And honestly, I think he and I get done work around the same time or something, because my [removed]s only pop up around 4PM in the evening. If I wait and go back, they don’t get removed at first…and if folks upvote or comment, usually they don’t get removed later. It’s been going on especially for a few days now, though it is tapering off a bit. I think maybe he’s getting bored.