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Pretty annoying. Somebody hacked my account from a Taiwanese IP and spammed a thread in /r/roadcam with it. Now I’m shadowbanned on my main which has gold on it and I guess I’ll be forced to move accounts. Sigh.
Nibby
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03/11/2016 at 09:35 |
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Captain of the Enterprise
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03/11/2016 at 09:39 |
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What is Reddit gold used for? I got some the other day
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
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03/11/2016 at 09:39 |
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And there’s no way the mods from that thread can un-ban you? I’ve never been big into Reddit, nor do I have an account there, so I only know the basics on how things work there...
CalzoneGolem
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03/11/2016 at 09:40 |
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Well you can use your BehindTheBurner18 account haha.
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CalzoneGolem
> Captain of the Enterprise
03/11/2016 at 09:41 |
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It is mostly used to fund Reddit , but I guess you get some benefits from it.
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> Captain of the Enterprise
03/11/2016 at 09:42 |
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It’s a number of small perks and only some of them are useful, but it’s still kinda nice. For example it tags posts as seen across multiple devices for you. It also shows you how many new comments have appeared in a thread since you last saw it and highlights those. Being able to filter subreddits from /r/all is useful as well. It removes ads (irrelevant for people who use adblock) and gives access to a gold members only subreddit (which is stupid) as well.
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> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
03/11/2016 at 09:43 |
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Apparently it’s a site-wide shadowban. It’s a cuntish thing for reddit to do as well since if I hadn’t noticed the ban I would have continued to pay for gold on that account. Also, for this month they pretty much took my money and ran.
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> CalzoneGolem
03/11/2016 at 09:43 |
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I might. ;)
Good thing you were able to reach me at /u/Borsuq yesterday.
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
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03/11/2016 at 09:47 |
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How could they? Weak password? Log on at a coffee shop?
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> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/11/2016 at 09:49 |
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No fucking idea. My best guess is Uni’s eduroam wifi. I never use any other open network.
DrJohannVegas
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03/11/2016 at 10:01 |
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https://www.reddit.com/r/shadowban
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> DrJohannVegas
03/11/2016 at 10:03 |
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Yeah, been there. Messaged the admins as well, but I’m not holding much hope. Shadowban reversals are apparently very rare.
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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
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03/11/2016 at 10:34 |
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Yeah, that is pretty stupid - and there’s nobody you can contact from Reddit themselves to get yourself un-banned seeing as you were banned for something beyond your control which is now solved...?
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> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
03/11/2016 at 10:42 |
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I sent the admins a message, but shadowban reversals are reportedly very rare.
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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
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03/11/2016 at 10:55 |
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So.....they banned you for something you didn’t do, something that is now fixed, (I assume) all the offending spammed posts have been removed, you PAID for part of the service that they unjustly banned your account for....
..........and they STILL won’t un-ban you?
This just helps to confirm why I never really bothered creating a Reddit account...
WiscoProud
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03/11/2016 at 12:15 |
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Forgive me, but what's the point of hacking a Reddit account other than being a dick?
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> WiscoProud
03/11/2016 at 13:07 |
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Established reddit accounts are often sold for marketing purposes. A shill post is much less suspicious if it’s coming from a genuine account that’s been around for years. In all likelihood somebody got my password and my account details got sold with a bunch of others except it wasn’t to anybody doing marketing.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
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03/11/2016 at 14:01 |
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You might consider subscribing to a VPN.
Also, if you’ll friendly a friendly suggestion, your posts would be more readable without the C-word and the F-word. Those words just don’t add anything when your content is interesting enough in its own right. Particularly in the headline...
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> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/11/2016 at 21:21 |
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I’m already subscribed to TunnelBear, but most of my classes are right on the edge of the wifi range which means I get constantly disconnected from the internet and therefore the VPN network. :/
Also, this is a venting post, hence the swearing. :D