A CTR shill made a post complaining about how we're destroying his favorite Pizza Place (CPP), his account was 1 day old and had never posted before. Somehow all of the comments were calling PizzaGate a hoax, and claiming that we're all being controlled by the Russians... so I downvoted ~5 comments.
https://np.reddit.com/r/self/comments/5h1dfw/fuck_everyone_who_wants_to_take_my_pizza_place/
24 hours later, I get an automated message from reddit saying I'm banned for vote manipulation.
https://imgur.com/b9fec5ff-aeb8-4c43-a362-e770af62a9db
WTF Reddit, they're sinking to the level of the MSM now.
Has this happened to anyone else? We need to find a way to educate redditors, and let them know that they are being actively censored.
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PizzaGateExpress ago
Wow, it seems this has happened to a lot of people, please add screenshots of your ban for vote manipulation so I can inform redditors and the mods (this censorship is significant proof for your average redditor and could convince a lot of people). I suspect that this happened to 100's if not 1000's of people, and is a new way method Spez is using to remove downvotes votes on material that they want promote.
sofakingtodd ago
Did the same to me from VOat > reddit and got banned for making 2-3 upvotes, no comments. They are tracking where their posts are getting traffic from offsite refs and banning saying due to "brigading from one subreddit to another". I got 2 bans at the same time. https://i.sli.mg/4VSQLn.png
PizzaGateExpress ago
Interesting, it was sent at the same time as mine, which indicates that we weren't banned based on some automated algorithm that removes "vote brigades," but rather a targeted attempt to suspend people based on HOW they vote.
sofakingtodd ago
I clicked a link on Voat that goes to a single post on reddit, I upvote 2-3 comments and leave no comments of my own. I never came from another subreddit. As far as Reddit should know a user came out of the cloud and made 2-3 votes. Then I get banned saying I came from one subreddit to another subreddit and I am brigading. I think Reddit is overreaching and tracking users on a deeper level. https://i.sli.mg/zLBH3i.png
pizzahthrowaway ago
Had been wondering about that based on several peoples claims of "vote brigading" when they went there from voat, not a subreddit.