AFAIK mod actions are always permanent unless you notice (they won't always tell you, and sometimes when they do, it's in a comment days or weeks back that you probably won't notice unless you manually review your entire comment history on a regular basis) and contact the mods and apologize, or the mods just happen to change their mind.
I recommend users to create a new account as soon as they notice something funny (like comments that get marked as dead automatically, votes/flags that stop counting, stupid ratelimits, etc)
Yeah, I just make a new account when dang gets trigger happy again because I said something against Elon. lmao.
That vaccine data really seems suspicious! (Can I get vote privileges back now?)
When I see comments like this, I always suspect there are probably other reasons why a person might be banned or ghosted or rate limited or whatever. I'll spend 5 seconds looking at their profile history and, well, let's just say I'm never too surprised.
I saw a clearly oblivious poster, who's been commenting quite regularly who has been [dead] since 2013. I couldn't see anything controversial in his history.
I'd love to see who you're taking about. I keep showdead on and sometimes look at the comments history of dead comments. I don't think I've ever seen a profile that left me guessing as to why they were banned.
I’ll volunteer myself as an example, as I was recently shadow banned (or some variant of banned). My other comment in this discussion has some details. I don’t think I am particularly controversial but maybe you can share a different perspective.
What does dead mean in this context.. I have one dead in my history iirc. Am I shadow banned?
This is what happened to me. I was shadowbanned or something like it for a comment made a few days earlier. The mod did tell me but I didn’t realize it because I would have needed to look through my comment history. I had no idea until another user pointed it out to me.
How do you know this? There must be the threat of bots that automatically mod, for example, or people that just up or down mod every comment for vandalism or to see what happens. I assume there would be some automatic safeguards against this built in