I just found out I was shadowbanned from /v/canada... so a heads up, shadowbanning seems to be a problem on VOAT as well. (Conspiracy)

submitted ago by salvia_d

  • NOTE: For those interested in uncensored - a hands off mod subverse - I've ended up creating /v/canadians ...so if you feel like sharing Canadian related content you are welcome to do so there. Peace.

Note: The title should really say banned, not shadowbanned. See UPDATE below for explanation.

That subverse is now off my radar, which is too bad since /r/canada (Reddit) has some major problems.

Not sure if this was an automated ban or deliberate. I did talk to the mod there and his/her main reason and recommendation was:

i can disable letting shadowbanned users post, but I put it on because there were bots spamming articles. Or contact the admins and repeal, or just make a different account. I can't even manually put your posts through :/

VOAT is in alpha mode so my guess is mods are trying to get a hang of how everything works. I can understand trying to prevent bots from posting, unfortunate though the measures end up killing the subverse right out of the gate.

My reply to the above message was:

Oh man, so much for /v/canada ...I'm definitely not into creating a different account, and definitely not into contacting the admins every time I want to make a post or a comment. Too bad... i found /r/canada [Reddit] to be way too censored for my taste but I am still active there since it is tolerable. Being shadowbanned here definitely puts this subverse off my radar. If you can fix it then please message me, otherwise good luck with the sub.

Anyway, just wanted to give people a heads up.

UPDATE:

So I contacted Atko about the ban and here is his message:

You are manually banned from /v/canada by its moderator. Please note that the ban reason contains word "auto" which is a word manually typed by the sub moderator. There is no "auto banning" mechanism on voat.

Here is the ban entry from ban log (ban logs will be public when I'm done implemeting this feature):

SubverseName: Canada

Username: salvia_d

BannedBy: Haredeenee

BanAddedOn: 2015-03-20 23:52:12.463

BanReason: Auto - Spam

Thanks to Atko for the quick reply and users Haredeenee - /u/Haredeenee - is officially a SHILL ... watch out for their post.

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721r ago

Create /v/Canadians while it's an early phase for voat.

salvia_d ago

okay done :)

Guess I'll just post stories on Canada that I come across and want to share there. Thanks for the suggestion.

Freakazoid ago

This is not the first time that the community will have to react to shill and troll mods on poplar subs. I thought voat had a way of removing these types of mods.