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Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot (piunikaweb.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] 34 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Once I got banned like a thousand times within the span of 5 minutes because I reported a pro-Trump post as child abuse. I assume it really triggered some admin.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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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