I got permanently banned for reporting spam (“abusing the report button”) after I reported 8 Vice articles posted in /r/politics by the Vice self-promotion account in one day.
Meanwhile, the spam guidelines page says - if you create an account primarily to promote your own content, you may be a spammer. And as a redditor, you should report spam.
They lost a 12 year long user who primarily engaged in niche technical subjects who went out of their way to answer newcomers’ questions.
Mods on Reddit giving a crap about bots?
In my experience they are more likely to shadow ban those who complain about bots than to do anything about obvious bots.
I got permanently banned for reporting spam (“abusing the report button”) after I reported 8 Vice articles posted in /r/politics by the Vice self-promotion account in one day.
Meanwhile, the spam guidelines page says - if you create an account primarily to promote your own content, you may be a spammer. And as a redditor, you should report spam.
They lost a 12 year long user who primarily engaged in niche technical subjects who went out of their way to answer newcomers’ questions.