Mike Hardaker, who has maintained a Reddit account for 20 years, has been shadow-banned on Reddit. He has posted an update on X, stating that Reddit requires an ad spend to restore organic posting. This demand was given to him in writing.

  • Dremor@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Sound more like you learned the hard way what “abusing the system” mean.

    • bearboiblake@pawb.social
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      Oh, no, I didn’t give a shit, I burned through Reddit accounts like nobody’s business. The fact that the admin was so triggered as to sit there, banning and unbanning me, just to spam me with notifications, was the greatest possible reward I could have ever asked for.

      First thing I did on the new account was report the exact same post. Didn’t get banned.

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        20 hours ago

        Quite odd behavior, this is not a moderator but an administrator on the site wide?

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      1 day ago

      They found out the hard way that abuse is only tolerated if you have passed a certain wealth threshold.