I experimented a few times with throwaway accounts and yeah, they’re locking or shadowbanning people just for engaging with politics or social issues. They don’t want humans influencing these topics, they want people to read what the bots are saying without distraction.
Not saying literally everyone there is a bot, but they’re slowly doing a bot-creep.
They sent me a warning of being flagged and monitored because I upvoted a comment about Luigi. That’s how cooked reddit is now. Seriously, only upvoting “rule violating comments”, not even commenting myself. Just a button click is all it takes, and they won’t tell you which comment or post you upvoted that flagged it so it’s like walking through a mine field.
I experimented a few times with throwaway accounts and yeah, they’re locking or shadowbanning people just for engaging with politics or social issues. They don’t want humans influencing these topics, they want people to read what the bots are saying without distraction.
Not saying literally everyone there is a bot, but they’re slowly doing a bot-creep.
They sent me a warning of being flagged and monitored because I upvoted a comment about Luigi. That’s how cooked reddit is now. Seriously, only upvoting “rule violating comments”, not even commenting myself. Just a button click is all it takes, and they won’t tell you which comment or post you upvoted that flagged it so it’s like walking through a mine field.