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New accounts gradually not allowed to post?[META] (self.undelete)

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Over the course of the past year I've been noticing more and more subreddits disallowing comments and posts from new accounts.

Right now I think it's impossible to post into any popular sub with a throwaway.
I just wasted my time typing a long answer to someone and it's automatically rejected. And I'm not going to bother asking the mods for permission to talk every time.

What's going on? Reddit uses Google's brand new Captcha that's nearly impossible to override with a bot.

Is this part of a new censorship campaign or something? Making it harder for people to stay anonymous? I don't see any other reason.
I thought this website was about free speech, open to new ideas etc.

Right now it seems like I have to go through a few days worth of tests and wait for the admins to agree with what I say before I'm allowed to talk.

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[–]MeghanAM 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

This is one of my pet peeves in moderation practices. In some subreddits, it's a response to rampant ban evasion and spam, and I do agree that moderation tools are not sufficient to deal with that problem efficiently. Still, I think it's contrary to the culture of Reddit to block new accounts, and particularly large/default subreddits should expect that new users will want to engage as soon as they make an account. It's extremely off-putting when someone creates an account in order to join a specific conversation and they're (in many instances, silently) banned from doing so.