No community has ever had a quarantine revoked as far as I know, and Reddit’s director of policy came straight out of the Atlantic Council. (You get shadowbanned for pointing this out)
In the case of r/ChapoTrapHouse, they (reddit admins, not the mods) rolled out a new “feature” where if you upvoted too many “violent” comments (basically, if you upvote wrongthink), you would catch a 3 day ban. They’d send you a PM explaining why you’re banned with a link to a deleted comment so you couldn’t even tell what upvote you’re being banned for. This system apparently disappeared from Reddit completely as soon r/ChapoTrapHouse and r/The_Donald were banned. I’ve never seen it or heard about it since.
In other words, this shit is completely arbitrary. They are going to do whatever is in their material interest and all these PR statements are just pretext. In Reddit’s statement regarding our ban, they accused us of “breaking rules” without even citing a specific rule, after accusing r/The_Donald of promoting events which lead to people getting killed. At least we made the New York Times.
No community has ever had a quarantine revoked as far as I know, and Reddit’s director of policy came straight out of the Atlantic Council. (You get shadowbanned for pointing this out)
In the case of r/ChapoTrapHouse, they (reddit admins, not the mods) rolled out a new “feature” where if you upvoted too many “violent” comments (basically, if you upvote wrongthink), you would catch a 3 day ban. They’d send you a PM explaining why you’re banned with a link to a deleted comment so you couldn’t even tell what upvote you’re being banned for. This system apparently disappeared from Reddit completely as soon r/ChapoTrapHouse and r/The_Donald were banned. I’ve never seen it or heard about it since.
In other words, this shit is completely arbitrary. They are going to do whatever is in their material interest and all these PR statements are just pretext. In Reddit’s statement regarding our ban, they accused us of “breaking rules” without even citing a specific rule, after accusing r/The_Donald of promoting events which lead to people getting killed. At least we made the New York Times.