This is the full transcript of my discussion with the moderators of /r/offmychest. https://i.imgur.com/EZseoT2.png , there's no edits and it is complete from first to last. I realize I could have stopped messaging them, however it was truly my intent to get a response from them as to the questions I was asking, not to bother them, a single response outlining my request or unbanning me would have sufficed, they did not comply with either and as I had told them, any responses otherwise would be invitation to respond; as it was, had they simply said nothing in response, as my last post received, I have sent nothing more and would have stopped earlier. It is my belief that their true intention knowing I'd stated this, that they indeed wished me to respond, if not to respond, but to bait me for the purpose of wrongly reporting me for "spamming" which according to reddit , does not qualify as spam. (As per the reddit content page, the second link is https://www.reddit.com/wiki/moddiquette for reference). I was shadowbanned shortly thereafter, even though I'd violated none of reddits terms of use, the mods made the choice to respond to me which I'd informed them would be met with a reply from myself, so regardless of their request to stop, I felt it necessary to ask again.

I realize this may be seen by some as intentionally pushing the limit, however they knew this is what would occur as I mentioned it several times, so unless they completely disregarded and did not read my responses, which would give them no reason to assume anything about my responses as to their quality as spam or harassing behavior, they knew I would respond.

While I can understand this may have annoyed them, even if I disagree with the fact that it should. My account is 7 years old, almost 100k comment karma, and in wholly good standing otherwise with reddit. A shadowban was not at all warranted and was used as a tool to do nothing more than silence someone who'd become a thorn in their side.

I was the OP of the SRC and KiA threads about this. My shadowban appears now, to have been reversed, in only 8 or so hours after the request to the mods was sent about my shadowban, which is a rather quick response, on a weekend no less. This whole situation stinks.

** removed links to other threads in with rule 9

Edit: I copied this and many of he links had he res numbering from the copy on the deleted message, which I had included links to other threads in before removing them for this post. These made the links remaining unusable and I've corrected this.