Tried to post a critique of a new moderation policy on Reddit and got hit with a 7-day suspension within 10 minutes

I wrote out a detailed breakdown with three specific examples of how their vague rule is being abused to silence minority voices, and the automated system flagged it as 'harassment' before any human even saw it - has anyone else had your account suspended just for questioning the rules themselves?

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abbyc3328d ago

Yeah my best friend had the exact same thing happen on a different sub. She posted a polite question about why a certain topic was banned and got auto-suspended for "promoting hate" in like 5 minutes. It took three appeals before a human finally looked at it and said it was a mistake.

evan_stone28d ago

Took three appeals?" That's honestly insane...

stone.jesse28d ago

Three appeals is rough. I had almost the same thing happen on a gaming sub. I got banned for "spamming" when I was just replying to a thread about save file locations. First appeal got auto-denied. Second one too. For the third, I found a mod's username in the sidebar and directly messaged them, just saying "hey can you look at my appeal." A real person fixed it in a few hours. So @evan_stone, I'd say try finding a mod's profile and send them a short message, not another automated appeal. It worked for me.