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[–]twilly13 89 ポイント90 ポイント

Is it becoming a coming of age thing for a super user to be shadowbanned?

[–]IAMA_dragon-AMA 32 ポイント33 ポイント

There's a "death pool" in the subreddit for users with 100K karma, since they're banned so frequently.

[–]karmanaut 39 ポイント40 ポイント

Which is fucking sad. You'd think that it would be new users who don't have a clue what they're doing, but no: it's the users with over 100,000 karma who can't follow 5 fucking rules.

[–]IAMA_dragon-AMA 60 ポイント61 ポイント

Current theory is that the admins keep a closer watch on suspiciously-high-karma profiles, since that's the most likely users of vote manipulation. For example, notorious downvote troll /u/dw-im-here was shadowbanned for jokingly asking for upvotes. This is a user who had comment karma of -90000. It's kind of ridiculous.

Edit: Ah fuck, didn't realize you're karmanaut. You already know this stuff.

[–]Nesman64 23 ポイント24 ポイント

Edit: Ah fuck, didn't realize you're karmanaut. You already know this stuff.

Haha, yeah. We get the joke. Everybody's karamanaut.

looks up

Oh. Shit.

[–]RoboticParadox 8 ポイント9 ポイント

Which is good because he was simply a pretender to the true downvote troll throne

/r/fabulousferds

[–]MrCheeze 17 ポイント18 ポイント

5 nebulously defined and enforced rules, mind you.

[–]Manannin 6 ポイント7 ポイント

Haven't you been shadowbanned before? A couple years back there was a massive circlejerk against you, I'm surprised that you survived, really!

[–]bigcalal 292 ポイント293 ポイント

Unidan was posting in both the original crows vs. jackdaws thread and the SRD thread that was started about it. He probably clicked the np link back to the original thread from the SRD thread, switched over to normal participation reddit to say something in the original thread and got in trouble by a bot for it or something. They'll probably reverse the ban when they realize he was already part of the original thread.

[–]reverend_green1 80 ポイント81 ポイント

It probably had to do with this comment chain, as it's clearly happening after the SRD link.

[–]Erra0 79 ポイント80 ポイント

Yeah, there was a ton of pissing all over that thread. A lot of people probably got justifiably banned and unidan got caught in the dragnet.

[–]mach-2 86 ポイント87 ポイント

I'm imagining /u/cupcake1713 operating a fishing trawler and casting a mechanical net into the piss filled sea of fishes. Unidan is currently a lochness monster bobbing on her boat deck. Will they set him back into the sea? Tune in next week for another episode of deadliest catch.

[–]Honestly_ 135 ポイント136 ポイント

FREE MUMIA UNIDAN!

UN-BAN
UN-IDAN

[–]bigcalal 71 ポイント72 ポイント

Hitler Unidan did nothing wrong.

[–]QuelqueChoseRose 54 ポイント55 ポイント

This is good for bitcoin Unidan.

[–]Tired_of_this_7 24 ポイント25 ポイント

What about the menz Uniden!?!?!

[–]TheCroak 31 ポイント32 ポイント

Plural of Unidan is Uniden

Example:

#NotAllUniden

[–]Tired_of_this_7 15 ポイント16 ポイント

Forgive me. Unidan is love. Unidan is life.

[–]mapppa 3 ポイント4 ポイント

[–]reverend_green1 7 ポイント8 ポイント

Unidan 2014!

[–]Prufrock451 15 ポイント16 ポイント

HEY HEY LBJ

HOW MANY SHADOWBANS TODAY

[–]Honestly_ 10 ポイント11 ポイント

HEY HEY
HO HO
BANNING UNIDAN'S GOT TO GO

[–]RoboticParadox 8 ポイント9 ポイント

2-4-6-8, UNI'S BAN WAS VERY GREAT

GREAT MEANING "LARGE OR IMMENSE", WE USE IT IN THE PEJORATIVE SENSE!

[–]MrBulger 8 ポイント9 ポイント

Hashtag freeunidan2013+1

[–]SemebayActually a badger. Not a cow. 2 ポイント3 ポイント

[–]moor-GAYZ 4 ポイント5 ポイント

Unidan is currently a lochness monster bobbing on her boat deck. Will they set him back into the sea?

You set him back in to the sea and think that he'd go away if you give him a dollar, but of course he's not gonna go away, woman! You gave him a dollar, he's gonna assume you got more!

[–]reverend_green1 6 ポイント7 ポイント

That seems to be the most likely answer. I'm sure it will get reversed fairly quickly and our Unijesus will rise again.

[–]iamanevilgenius 9 ポイント10 ポイント

It's been half an hour and no news yet. Part of me thinks a quick mistake would be fixed by now...

The suspense is killing me.

[–]is_this_working 26 ポイント27 ポイント

It took Jesus three days to revert his shadowban. Have some patience.

[–]HeartyBeast 2 ポイント3 ポイント

I was so close to pissing when the guys said 'in the UK we call all corvids crows'

no, we really don't

[–]ky1e 12 ポイント13 ポイント

Phew. I'm not responsible for killing /u/Unidan. Thought I was.

Edit: little explanation. We had a small string of comments here in SRD yesterday that concerned a linked thread, thought it was somehow related.

[–]reverend_green1 18 ポイント19 ポイント

We can still blame you if you like. Nothing helps like a good scapegoat!

[–]ky1e 18 ポイント19 ポイント

I killed /u/Unidan. Let a jackdaw claw my eyes out for all I care, it had to be done.

[–]reverend_green1 5 ポイント6 ポイント

YOU BASTARD

[–]Manannin 1 ポイント2 ポイント

Don't you mean Crow?

[–]Number6UK 2 ポイント3 ポイント

In the UK we call everything a crow, you know. The thing I'm using to move the crow cursor on the screen? A crow. Feeling thirsty? Brew a nice crow of crow. The thing I live in, that's called a crow. You'd think it'd be confusing but you just learn to crow with it.

[–]Manannin 1 ポイント2 ポイント

What's funny about this whole thing is that my dads a bird watcher, and that guys comment is completely wrong... Sure, you could call it a crow because it looks a bit like one, but you'd be wrong, and my dads corrected me on similar before.

[–]ManWithoutModem 6 ポイント7 ポイント

unidan killer /u/ky1e

[–]AOBCD-8663 5 ポイント6 ポイント

Dude needs flair.

[–]Killatrap 2 ポイント3 ポイント

I think I might've been. He responded to my comment after the SRD post :O

[–]blockbaven 31 ポイント32 ポイント

You're allowed to post in linked threads, though. "No popcorn pissing" is a SRD rule, not a reddit one. The reddit rule concerns vote manipulation.

[–]bigcalal 13 ポイント14 ポイント

I'm not sure that's true, because when I get to an np thread, it says that participating can get me banned in a little box at the top right of my screen. It only started showing up recently.

[–]blockbaven 47 ポイント48 ポイント

That's something put in by either the subreddit moderators or the guy who codes RES, not the reddit administration

[–]QuelqueChoseRose 19 ポイント20 ポイント

It's an RES thing, yeah.

[–]bigcalal 1 ポイント2 ポイント

Oh okay, I didn't know that.

[–]jippiejee 4 ポイント5 ポイント

That's a res feature.

[–]WorldOneWon 4 ポイント5 ポイント

Following a linked thread and then voting is considered brigading by the admins, so it is technically a reddit rule too.

[–]BRBaraka 31 ポイント32 ポイント

np links are moronic

reddit needs a better system, they are fucking joke

they don't really work and "breaking" the rule results in bullshit like this

[–]RandyMarshIsMyHero 23 ポイント24 ポイント

I can understand wanting to keep away stuff like "Check out this idiot in this thread, downvote everything he says!" but a huge part of reddit is linking to other things in reddit. If I find a link in a post on /r/games to /r/gamegrumps and I find the discussion interesting, I'm all of a sudden not allowed to participate? But if I find it through... I don't know, magic (since reddit search is awful), it would be ok?

The whole anti-brigade system is just awful and basically a lot of people get screwed because they go with the grenade approach to handle a specific problem.

Hell, would you be shadowbanned by following the /r/games link from here and posting there? There is no way to know.

[–]BRBaraka 7 ポイント8 ポイント

exactly, it's hamfisted idiocy

[–]Mircy 2 ポイント3 ポイント

Yes you would be. Admins refuse to clarify ban rules

[–]aroes 1 ポイント2 ポイント

That's because then they'd have to either get rid of them, or start enforcing them on /r/bestof.

[–]I_make_things 2 ポイント3 ポイント

I don't... What are np links? Sorry, I don't know about this

[–]BRBaraka 3 ポイント4 ポイント

i actually mischaracterized the problem, apologies

np links are a user hack that prevents crossposting in threads, an attempt to help people not "brigade" by mistake

but the real problem is that reddit shadowbans people for this behavior, regardless of whether they have np links, when the behavior is usually innocent

[–]ky1e 5 ポイント6 ポイント

Basically, they enforce a rule they've never explained anywhere and do not give moderators the ability to help with. They take the whole "making their jobs harder thing" seriously.

[–]BRBaraka 1 ポイント2 ポイント

exactly

[–]rushingfox 1 ポイント2 ポイント

Needs to be a system that automatically expands all comments and takes a screenshot, then all the usernames are blanked out and each username is assigned a random color, so you can still see who said what.

[–]I_make_things 1 ポイント2 ポイント

I don't... What are np links? Sorry, I am not very observant.

[–]half-assed-haiku 1 ポイント2 ポイント

We could just post screenshots instead of links to threads

[–]reseph 2 ポイント3 ポイント

got in trouble by a bot for it or something.

I don't think you know what you're talking about.

[–]exemplary_butthole 2 ポイント3 ポイント

I have no idea what I just read.

ELI5?

[–]altosux29b 2 ポイント3 ポイント

They'll probably reverse the ban when they realize he was already part of the original thread he is important to reddit.

[–]poutinethrowaway 72 ポイント73 ポイント

We were the last ones to talk with him ;_; May he soar with the crows he loved so much.

[–]Erra0 70 ポイント71 ポイント

In the arms of the jackdaws...

[–]pattycigs 12 ポイント13 ポイント

cue slideshows of Unidans in cages with sad faces

[–]Brumaired 6 ポイント7 ポイント

Oh please God don't let one of them look like they've been crying.

[–]PotentialPedophile 18 ポイント19 ポイント

Crows*

[–]Windows_97 1 ポイント2 ポイント

[–]Hipster_Garabe 10 ポイント11 ポイント

Get ready for /r/circlejerk to morn their mod!

[–]Aurailious 1 ポイント2 ポイント

We already are, we are trying to upcrow a picture of a jackdaw. Hopefully this will reverse his ban.

[–]_Kata_ 5 ポイント6 ポイント

My last words to him were 'You deserve a flair. :)'

Goodnight, sweet prince. ;`;

[–]TheReasonableCamel 68 ポイント69 ポイント

Yes he was shadowbanned, otherwise if you did a search for his name and he had deleted his account it would show up as [deleted] (Or not show up at all)

[–]Erra0 66 ポイント67 ポイント

There's no way this won't get overturned. The whole jackdaw/crow thread had him posting both in the drama and in SRD at the same time. Probably got hit by an auto admin bot.

On the plus side, ain't nobody in the metasphere gonna mess up jackdaws with crows ever again.

[–]Andr3wsky 53 ポイント54 ポイント

On the plus side, ain't nobody in the metasphere gonna mess up jackdaws with crows ever again.

They're the same thing. How can you mess it up if they're the same thing?

[–]Caststarman 25 ポイント26 ポイント

God dammit.

[–]SirNeon 12 ポイント13 ポイント

[–]TheLadyEve 15 ポイント16 ポイント

I don't get it, what's wrong with that comment? I thought it was funny...

[–]TheReasonableCamel 27 ポイント28 ポイント

I think he was just linking it as an example that he was shadowbanned and not deleted.

[–]TheLadyEve 6 ポイント7 ポイント

Oh, I get it, duh. Thank you! I'm still confused about what led to this sordid affair...

[–]zxcv1992 7 ポイント8 ポイント

Maybe they mistakenly thought he was brigrading, happens every now and then.

[–]freedomweasel 3 ポイント4 ポイント

That would be my guess. Is that process automated at all?

Though, he was also posting in the SRD thread about that whole jackdaw thing, so maybe he ended up back on an np link and posting/voting.

[–]zxcv1992 1 ポイント2 ポイント

No idea, maybe?

[–]everyotherredditor[S] 5 ポイント6 ポイント

I suppose you find something funny about the Woodcock, the Southern Screamer, the Blue Booby, the Imperial Shag, or the Tufted Titmouse, too, huh?

Blue footed boobies are hillarious https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYmzdvMoUUA

[–]SolarAquarion 2 ポイント3 ポイント

How?

[–]TheReasonableCamel 5 ポイント6 ポイント

How what?

[–]Andr3wsky 99 ポイント100 ポイント

Wow I cannot believe this. Still, I put a lot of work into Unidan's obituary and I am glad to be able to post it. Sucks for him, I guess! But awesome for me.

Ahem.

Biologist, scientist, ab model, and super user /u/Unidan was shadowbanned today, after losing a battle concerning whether or not a bird is a jackdaw or a crow. His account was 4 years old.

When speaking about /u/Unidan, it is impossible to separate the man from the mythology that has surrounded him and cloaked the human being that could be found therein. I am referring, of course, to /Unidan's extensive -- almost terrifyingly extensive -- sexual history. Don Juan, Wilt Chamberlain, Gheghis Khan, all well known for having a tremendous amount of sexual partners, and all fall well short of Unidan's voracious sexual appetite. His tireless, almost unceasing efforts to bed as many women (and men) as are possible under the physical and mathematical constraints of the universe as we know it are well known. What is not well known is the exact number of people with whom Unidan has had sexual contact. It is believed by scientists and macro-statisticians to be well over 100,000, perhaps as many as half a million. Part of the reason why it's so difficult to deduce an exact number is that most of the people with whom Unidan has slept are still recovering from exhaustion and pure sexual pleasure, and thus cannot add to the data collected by unidanologists. This has been termed by doctor's as "post-Unidan coital coma" and has been compared to over dosing on heroin, methamphetamine, and kitten snuggles all at once.

It is this legacy - as well as countless legions of legitimate and illegitimate children - that /u/Unidan will undoubtedly leave behind in the wake of his untimely shadowban. Fare thee well, Unidan, may the orgy pits of heaven be always greased and full of buxom, willing partners, and may ye recover quickly from the indelible sexual conquests found there.

[–]imakuram 24 ポイント25 ポイント

All right. Glad the eulogy is over. Can we start dividing up his nudes?

[–]ky1e 22 ポイント23 ポイント

dibs on the jackdaw photos

[–]ewbrower 3 ポイント4 ポイント

Sorry, all I see here are illicit pictures of crows.

[–]bitterred 13 ポイント14 ポイント

I'm crying salty tears into my popcorn :(

What is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger

[–]Erra0 7 ポイント8 ポイント

At least it wasn't all about kissing this time.

[–]Andr3wsky 13 ポイント14 ポイント

Well, one never kissed unidan, just enjoyed his body and allowed him to do the same to you. No kissing, tho. That was his rule. sniff sniff I miss him already.

[–]bibliotaph 4 ポイント5 ポイント

Beautiful. Brought a tear to my eye.

[–]Bamres 2 ポイント3 ポイント

Don't worry he built an army of children yo guide reddit into the future

[–]dont_get_it 1 ポイント2 ポイント

You need to work something about bronies in there.

[–]Imwe 80 ポイント81 ポイント

The last couple of times SRD linked to shadowbanned users, they were all reinstated after contacting the admins. So I'm expecting that some admin made a mistake, and that unidan will be back soon. If not, and we find out that he has been vote brigading or something like that, then he will be my new Reddit hero. In that case, I'll actually start calling crows Jackdaws in his honour.

[–]splattypus 14 ポイント15 ポイント

That's my theory. It's easy to get caught up in those little voting rings when you hang out in the metasphere or with the circlejerk crowd. Shadowbans are given indiscriminately in those events, then cleaned up with a little more personal attention over the ensuing days.

[–]Kijafa 10 ポイント11 ポイント

I feel like there's gotta be a ban-bot. So many users get Bob'd then re-instated after ~24hrs. Likely he just tripped that and he'll be back in a couple of days.

[–]splattypus 6 ポイント7 ポイント

I think you're right. I know the bot that enforces /r/spam, and RTS before it, was hit-or-miss sometimes, but allowed them to just set it on cruise control and run.

I wouldn't be surprised if the same happens in cases like these.

Kinda takes the edge off shadowbans when they're so liberally issued, and then quickly overturned...

[–]Kijafa 8 ポイント9 ポイント

The admins need a new tool. I feel like they're trying to use shadow bans for things they're not really best for. Like they've got a hammer and they're just whacking everything with it.

[–]splattypus 7 ポイント8 ポイント

Well they aren't gonna get any sympathy from mods about it, we've been playing that game forever too.

:p

But yeah, they're too few, working with too-outdated tools, to personally manage a community as big as reddit. And missing a lot of the really bad behavior stuff, because they have their sites set on things like small-scale vote manipulation over meta-drama. Surely a lot of what they do is automated, but you get false positives a lot like that, miss stuff or hammer stuff too hard because it's always hard to judge context. It's not an ideal way to do it, but it's probably the best option readily available.

Which is a sad thought in itself, because other option is to open more of that stuff up to mods, and that surely won't go over well.

[–]Kijafa 6 ポイント7 ポイント

Oh shit, can you imagine if mods could site-wide ban? It'd be a total shit show. I like most of the moderators I work with, but holy hell the abuse would be off the charts.

[–]splattypus 3 ポイント4 ポイント

Exactly. And if the users thought the mods were out of control before, the site would explode once that revelation came out.

There surely are some who would use it responsibly, but there are too many more who would abuse it to probably make it worth it.

[–]HIFW_GIFs_React_ 3 ポイント4 ポイント

They very seriously do. I could swear I remember way back in the early days of reddit when I got a temporary ban and a message from an admin (raldi, I think?) for using a voting script - every page I went to had a message about being banned and for how long, and it really got my attention and made me shape up. If I were shadowbanned and didn't bother to figure out how to ask about it, much less actually go through with that, I wouldn't even know what I did wrong and would probably just make another account and keep breaking rules. It's just passive aggressive as fuck to stealth ban someone without any kind of notification. Shadow bans should only be reserved for spammers. Maybe also for some other extreme cases such as trolls who post horrible stuff in normally friendly places or who post illegal content, but handing them out for stupid shit that really just deserves a virtual slap on the wrist is lazy and in my book it's one of the worst things you could do to manage a community. The admins need to cut that shit out, and switch to real, active bans.

[–]straydog1980 1 ポイント2 ポイント

I can't imagine that it would be humanly possible to ban all the accounts involved in drama or raids. It needs to be automated somehow. And even if it isn't automated, it's probably done with a shotgun approach. The admin console must be awesome. I wonder what icon they use for shadowbans.

[–]316nuts 21 ポイント22 ポイント

I would highly doubt it was a casual mistake.

He's probably getting a good talkin' to about breaking the rules.

Just like DR666, there is an opportunity to 1) understand what you did wrong 2) promise not to do it again 3) shower them with cat pictures 3) take a time out to think about what you did.

[–]CommanderpKeen 12 ポイント13 ポイント

Which of those rules did he break?

[–]316nuts 27 ポイント28 ポイント

Dunno - that's between he and the admins.

As Splatty said - when you're a high profile user, commenting and voting in tons of places and deeply involved in the meta communities - it's not super difficult to break the rules at some point or another.

or maybe he just broke the rules on purpose so he could see what sort of reddit-funeral we'd throw for him!

[–]splattypus 12 ポイント13 ポイント

It's why I almost never vote in the metasphere anymore.

[–]316nuts 19 ポイント20 ポイント

but i need your upbrigades to fuel my internet happiness :(

[–]splattypus 15 ポイント16 ポイント

K.

But just this one.

[–]316nuts 10 ポイント11 ポイント

[–]splattypus 10 ポイント11 ポイント

I don't wanna get shadowbanned just for upbrigading your valuable contributions to the discussion.

[–]Barl0we 11 ポイント12 ポイント

or maybe he just broke the rules on purpose so he could see what sort of reddit-funeral we'd throw for him!

How I imagine his reaction if that's the case :p

[–]Drando_HS 3 ポイント4 ポイント

And shed some tears, will ya? You all look like you're waiting for a bus!

[–]chuckychub 2 ポイント3 ポイント

Honestly, I agree with everyone else here. He most likely used the SRD link to comment back instead of the inbox, and he was auto-banned. It makes the most sense.

[–]davidreiss666 5 ポイント6 ポイント

DR666 did nothing wrong. Well, except what he did that was wrong. But other than that, nothing wrong at all. Well, except for the other thing he might have done that was wrong. But the admins didn't care about the killing and eating of the small children from the neighborhood playground. That was okay. And since he used a good barbeque sauce, maybe even better than okay.

Party at Unidan's house in a couple of horse. Be there, or don't.

[–]everyotherredditor[S] 3 ポイント4 ポイント

I'll be there with horsey sauce.

[–]Manannin 2 ポイント3 ポイント

Horse sauce doesn't go well with human meat, mate.

[–]Froghurt 4 ポイント5 ポイント

It'd be hilarious if we found out he got banned for doxxing people.

[–]Imwe 10 ポイント11 ポイント

Maybe he did some unethical things to animals, like doxxed some furries. If he gets angry about crows/jackdaws imagine his response to a man in a costume saying that he is a wolf.

[–]xXxplodiumNitrate 32 ポイント33 ポイント

Reposting from the other thread that got shanked

http://i.imgur.com/M6MH4Df.png

[–]QuelqueChoseRose 5 ポイント6 ポイント

It was obviously those jackdaw guys who own Advance Publications, and, according to r/worldnews, spend their days making sure moderators delete anything pro-crow. Because people who own half the major magazines in America don't have anything better to do with their time.

[–]MimesAreShite 2 ポイント3 ポイント

spend their days making sure moderators delete anything pro-crow.

Do they get paid, or are they doing it quid pro-crow?

[–]MimesAreShite 4 ポイント5 ポイント

*crows

[–]mapppa 14 ポイント15 ポイント

Unidan killed by a murder of crows.

[–]nothingdoing 14 ポイント15 ポイント

Or a manslaughter of jackdaws. Whatever, same thing.

[–]ewbrower 3 ポイント4 ポイント

Manslaughter : Jackdraws :: Murder : Crows

Damn this joke has levels

[–]Not_So_Bad_Andy 1 ポイント2 ポイント

No, it was the Jews. You don't know how deeply this site's JIDF tendrils go, sheeple!

[–]mach-2 39 ポイント40 ポイント

Jackdaws gather, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my ban. I shall take no gold, mod no subs, father no child comments. I shall wear no flairs and win no glory. I shall live and die at my post. I am the scientist in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the shill that guards the labels and Nomenclature. I pledge my life and honor to the bird's Watch, for this night and all the nights to come.

[–]sal_the_tiller 17 ポイント18 ポイント

Somewhere deep within the bowels of Reddit HQ, a summer intern decided to take initiative and clean up the pissed-in popcorn of his own volition.

High atop her mountain fortress, Cupcake is stirred by the feeling that something is deeply wrong in her reddits.

Riding on the backs of several jackdaws crows, Unidan attempts to post a crow selfie to reddit.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE? FIND OUT NEXT TIME ON THE SHADOWBAN SHADOWBOX THEATRE!

[–]DiscreteMath 3 ポイント4 ポイント

It was a good time to be on SRD, m'boy!

[–]Kijafa 60 ポイント61 ポイント

Holy shit. This is one poweruser who I feel was pretty universally liked. If he doesn't get it overturned there's gonna a serious shitshow.

Edit: I'm thinking this thread might actually front page. That'll be interesting.

[–]ByJoveByJingle 16 ポイント17 ポイント

He'll for sure get unshadowbanned

[–]Kijafa 2 ポイント3 ポイント

We'll see. I thought the same thing about /u/AndrewSmith1986 but he's still banned.

[–]NickWasHere09 5 ポイント6 ポイント

Yeah but his infraction was worse than just voting in linked threads.

[–]LeConnor 2 ポイント3 ポイント

What did he do?

Edit: Nvm, I looked it up. He apparently doxxed a user.

SRD thread.

[–]Captain_Unremarkable 1 ポイント2 ポイント

Not really. He PM'd some user's name. Public doxing is against the rules but his shadowban was a stretch IMHO.

[–]He11razor 1 ポイント2 ポイント

That guy wasn't nearly as well liked as unidan.

[–]Dani_Californication 23 ポイント24 ポイント

Yeah he's basically the only power user that posts interesting, helpful stuff, and shares his real life knowledge.

Much better than "le dammit VARGAS!" or "le user name joke! of course you would say that, Butthole Pleasures!" comments that are all over the site and are associated with these users

It's really pathetic how much time and effort is dedicated by most power users with nothing but jokes and made up bullshit. Seeing them takeover askreddit threads every comment chain with their short quips just makes me think they are constantly checking the site waiting for their opportunity at precious karma!

[–]Kijafa 11 ポイント12 ポイント

constantly checking the site waiting for their opportunity at precious karma

That's so inefficient. You really just need to get threads at 8am and 4pm EST.

[–]bibliotaph 6 ポイント7 ポイント

I'm pretty sad about this one too. I really hope he gets unbanned.

[–]dinnerordie17 1 ポイント2 ポイント

I hope we don't all end up in an anti jerk phase against Unidain though. Reddit is so cyclical about that shit. Sometimes the reason someone is universally liked on reddit is because they actually deserve it :(

[–]Frostiken 2 ポイント3 ポイント

I hated Unidan. AMA.

[–]lolpancakeslol 11 ポイント12 ポイント

Is there a legit reason he'd get shadowbanned?

[–]imakuram 50 ポイント51 ポイント

My only conclusion is that the admins have gone insane, and have come to hate power users so much, that they want to humiliate them as much as possible. So, they've spongebobbed all our best power users, all our shit power users, and sat idly by on purpose, so that the plebes can build a quality new submitter base. As planned, Reddit haters across the world are going to be chock full of shit eating grins, rubbing it in our faces, hopes as high as mountains. Surely this is the year. The gleeful anticipation and schadenfreude reaching levels never seen before. And by god I hope you enjoy it. Because for admin's coup de grace, we're going to get even bigger again, only this time at a deliberate handicap, whilst having our head Dinner Lady (Maureen) as our biology expert, and our fucking bus driver as water color extraordinaire, with numpties like me posting. And your hearts are going to break into a thousand tiny little pieces, and then the admins are going to zip themselves up in a giant fucking jacket, and they're going to morph into a massive fucking butterfly and fly off laughing like a maniac, never to be seen again.

And when that happens, I can assure you, tag me now, that I am going to make 100% sure that I am totally and indisputably the biggest most unbearable prick on this subreddit for the next 12 months solid. I'm going to go around with a little bucket, and catch every single one of your tears and I'm going to bathe in them, until your bitterness and pain seeps into my skin, makes its way to my heart, and I die of an overdose of the sweetest schadenfreude that you could ever imagine.

Fucking Bring Reddit Down, bastards. I swear this is it. This is actual war now. This year is going to be the mother of all fucking clusterfucks. A thousand plagues upon your houses. You fucking cock loving wankers.

I cannot wait for this war to start. I fucking love reddit.

FUCK ALL YOU BRDS!!

[–]IAMGodAMA 13 ポイント14 ポイント

[–]reverend_green1 6 ポイント7 ポイント

A power user vacuum will only clear the way for bigger, stronger power users to take over!

[–]SUSAN_IS_A_BITCH 6 ポイント7 ポイント

I am a generous god.

[–]mach-2 18 ポイント19 ポイント

They've started hunting power users?

Fuck yeah. come at me plebs.

[–]Erra0 12 ポイント13 ポイント

I FOUND ONE! GET EM!

[–]TheLadyEve 10 ポイント11 ポイント

It's the most dangerous game...

[–]Erra0 6 ポイント7 ポイント

They also have the tastiest meat.

[–]SolarAquarion 5 ポイント6 ポイント

>he has over 100,000 karma

[–]MimesAreShite 4 ポイント5 ポイント

I really hope this copypasta catches on.

[–]imakuram 6 ポイント7 ポイント

I was so excited to finally use it and be able to edit it for a purpose.

[–]pattycigs 1 ポイント2 ポイント

What was it from? It looks like the source material could be hilarious.

[–]imakuram 3 ポイント4 ポイント

[–]pattycigs 1 ポイント2 ポイント

Huh, didn't expect that to be so highly upvoted. I swear, almost all of reddit loves them some expletive-filled manifestos about HOW FUCKING WRONG [X] IS. You see that shit everywhere.

[–]imakuram 1 ポイント2 ポイント

If you were an EPL (especially Arsenal) you would think that was brilliant. Also, it basically came true.

[–]pattycigs 1 ポイント2 ポイント

Haha fair enough. I guess it sounded like I was being super critical of the comment in question, I just think it's funny how that sort of formula for comments tends to be popular everywhere. I don't tend to follow sports so it made about as much sense as someone talking about bioengineering to me, so any nuance in it was lost on me anyways.

[–]imakuram 1 ポイント2 ポイント

Unsolicited explanation follows:

Basically Arsenal has gotten rid of players for several years in a row to pay for a stadium. Last year at that point, it looked like there was going to be no one on the team. Spurs are Arsenal's number one rivals and this was a hilarious comment saying we would still finish above them despite having the elderly (from an apparently awful BBC show) playing in our most important positions and having no back up players.

But soccer fans are constantly swearing at each other. If you post to a team sub or /r/soccer and someone doesn't call you a cuntface moron you are doing something wrong.

[–]everyotherredditor[S] 7 ポイント8 ポイント

Wat?

[–]Jogindah 3 ポイント4 ポイント

they've spongebobbed all our best power users

i need to start using this

[–]newshillagepeople 1 ポイント2 ポイント

Thas beautiful mang.

[–]Kijafa 4 ポイント5 ポイント

Most likely unintentional vote manipulation. Lots of times people accidentally run afoul of the system if they've got multiple users on one IP address who happen to upvote each other. That and accidentally being getting caught up in a 4chan raid are the top reasons high-karma users get the ax. Other than intentionally vote cheating or spamming, but Unidan doesn't seem the sort.

[–]SolarAquarion 25 ポイント26 ポイント

Jesus Christ?

RIP unidan. You were the best of us ;_;7

[–]duckvimes_ 29 ポイント30 ポイント

He gave his life for the popcorn.

[–]SolarAquarion 20 ポイント21 ポイント

He was put on the cross of birds and science. He died for science.

[–]moor-GAYZ 8 ポイント9 ポイント

Wasn't there some film or a book where a crucified man was killed by crows?

[–]pattycigs 3 ポイント4 ポイント

Ask /r/tipofmytongue. They're fucking wizards sometimes.

[–]Legolas-the-elf 3 ポイント4 ポイント

He was a real genius.

[–]dumnezero 1 ポイント2 ポイント

More like he died in a popcorn accident

[–]mysweetwesley 9 ポイント10 ポイント

He'll be back...stronger than before.

[–]Enleat 4 ポイント5 ポイント

And in greater numbers :D

[–]SexSellsCoffee 9 ポイント10 ポイント

Admins are probably gonna undo the shadowban like they have in the past. Still curious about the reasons in the first place

[–]cypherreddit 5 ポイント6 ポイント

It would be interesting if /r/Unidan doesn't fight the ban and just walks away from reddit. Something I would probably do

[–]preggit 7 ポイント8 ポイント

Today marks the end of an era.
7/30/2014. Never Forget.

I sent him a modmail in a sub I mod with him (modmail is still usable even if you're shadowbanned). Hopefully we can get to the bottom of this and hopefully he will return from the adminesque shadowban pit as Unidan the White.

[–]RachelMaddog 15 ポイント16 ポイント

im willing to take the place of honoroary unidan i got a 89 in biology in high school and i can clean up my typing and stuff and i mean im sure i can get a tedx talk it cant be that hard its not even ted

[–]AndyWarwheels 4 ポイント5 ポイント

If Unidan isn't safe, none of us are.

[–]superslab 7 ポイント8 ポイント

What rule could this have possibly broken? If following our bot back to SRD is in violation of the rules the admins would have to shadowban dozens of people every day.

[–]Mircy 2 ポイント3 ポイント

Commenting on linked subs is now an admin violation, I got shadowbanned for it a bit ago

[–]feedthecollapse 7 ポイント8 ポイント

Now Reddit will never reach its daily Reddit Gold quotas :(

[–]DeathSquadYolo420 1 ポイント2 ポイント

His dick must be enormous though

[–]ky1e 5 ポイント6 ポイント

Either the admins' bot that shadowbans vote manipulators is poorly designed or they have an extremely arbitrary process for identifying vote manipulation.

In both cases, the amount of accidental or "example" shadowbans as of late are ridiculous. /u/david-me, /u/mayonasa, /u/davidreiss666, and now /u/unidan. I can't see how they're using these people as examples for enforcing shadowbans if A) there's so many examples being made and B) they undo the shadowban right away.

Basically, shit is whack.

[–]karmanaut 2 ポイント3 ポイント

There are some that aren't undone, like /u/Red321Red321 or AndrewSmith.

[–]ky1e 2 ポイント3 ポイント

Forgot about those. Those felt more like straw-that-broke-the-camel's-back, especially with AndrewSmith. And don't forget P_I_M_A

[–]ttumblrbots 2 ポイント3 ポイント

Anyone know an alternative to Readability? Send me a PM!

[–]Erra0 4 ポイント5 ポイント

Thanks for the snapshot, ttumblrbots.

[–]hero0fwar 2 ポイント3 ポイント

Who's /u/unidan?

[–]WillemDafuq_ 3 ポイント4 ポイント

Sorry to hear he is banned, he is a good guy.

Hey admins, if you're reading this thread my original account /u/WillemDafuq was shadowbanned by a dickhead named intortus, who I hear is corrupt.

[–]intortus 3 ポイント4 ポイント

Shadowbanning redditors at the behest of <insert conspiracy theory here> paid for my 2013 racing season.

[–]Redeemed-Assassin 2 ポイント3 ポイント

Who the fuck would actually ban Unidan? He's one of the few people on Reddit that posts useful and insightful shit every day. Someone is fuckin' up.

[–]WatchEachOtherSleep 5 ポイント6 ポイント

Unsurprising. Admins are bluebird shills.

[–]iKickComputers 4 ポイント5 ポイント

Poor Unidan. I hope this gets sorted out. He's answered biology questions I've asked on more than one occasion and he's just generally a really nice redditor.

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[–]bioemerl 2 ポイント3 ポイント

No biologists here...

[–]Suspicious_INTJ 2 ポイント3 ポイント

Kerfuffle. Thats a great word. You dont hear it enough.

[–]sheburns 0 ポイント1 ポイント

Strange that the other post about this got removed.