Hellbanned on Reddit

I've been a reddit user for many years. I didn't use it a lot because every time I posted, usually I got a bunch of ugly/snarky comments. HN had a lot higher standard for posting and conversations.

But a couple of years ago I decided to record some of my coding sessions, so I posted those Vimeo links over on reddit. I also started participating in the history forum. I love history.[1]

Weirdest thing, though. Nobody ever replied to my comments. Nobody ever voted up any of my articles or commented on any of my posts.

I'm not posting out of narcissism. It's fine with me if I have nothing useful to say. But for months on end? It was odd.

So finally, in a fit of curiosity this morning, I check the site from incognito mode.

I'm hell-banned. That is, nothing I type in appears so that anybody else could see it.

I don't know how I got this way. Doing some Googling, looks like most folks never get out of jail once they get in.

I consider this amazingly fucked up. I spent a lot of time trying to add value to a lot of conversations. None of it mattered. This looks like one of those situations where a vendor thinks that their time is valuable and your time is worthless.

I'm not really sure what to do from here.

1. Here's a link to a comment I wrote 10 months ago with a score of 33. As far as I know, I haven't done anything that could be contrued as spammy of self-promotional since then. https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/3to3n4/woodrow_wilson_was_extremely_racist_even_by_the/cx7ucab