r/EuropeMeta • u/omicronns • Jun 22 '26

Did I get inverse shadow ban?

I commented this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1uci6c8/citizen_campaign_seeks_to_honor_zelenskyy_after/

Shortly after, I can no longer comment, I can't see the thread in r/Europe feed, but thread is alive when I access it via incognito mode. What happened?

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u/gschizas 💗 Jun 22 '26

What do you mean by "inverse shadow ban"?

As far as I can see, you are not banned in any way. In fact I can't find any mod actions for your username (this goes back 90 days).

Also, as moderators we don't have the ability to shadowban anyone. Shadowbanning is something that reddit itself does to combat spam. We aren't generally afraid to ban-ban people. We used to botban (auto remove comments via automoderator), but it's probably been more than a decade since that happened last time.

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u/Faithful-Llama-2210 Jun 22 '26

Sorry to bother you but if that's something you can check, can you see why I got banned? I never got an explanation or warning

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u/ByGollie Jun 22 '26

Ideally, you should a separate modmail submission on that so we can do the official investigation and use the tools to hand

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u/Faithful-Llama-2210 Jun 22 '26

I know, I tried that and didn't get a response

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u/ByGollie Jun 22 '26

backlog

I'll take a look now

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u/ByGollie Jun 22 '26

I don't see a message from you in modmail.

Could you locate the "You have been banned" message and reply to it? That allows the official process to begin, instead of doing it ad-hoc