this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2026
451 points (97.5% liked)

Technology

81797 readers
4373 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 34 points 21 hours ago (2 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.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 13 points 14 hours ago

I wonder if this admin was named maxwellhill.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 11 points 16 hours ago (1 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.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Quite odd behavior, this is not a moderator but an administrator on the site wide?

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 3 points 7 hours ago

Yeah, moderators can't do sitewide bans, only Reddit administrators (employees) can do it.

[–] IratePirate@feddit.org 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

They found out the hard way that abuse is only tolerated if you have passed a certain wealth threshold.