QuestionEverything

You can't post anonymously to Voat as far as I can tell either. Captcha won't show on shadow IPs that I have tried.

Anyone have workarounds? We need an anonymous route to spread information or there's not really ANY free speech.

Remember: ATKO has said they will completly reveal your information if ANY gov't official asks for it, whether they think you have broken a law or not. Voat is run by a couple of college kids who will cave-in instantly.

Mumberthrax

any subverse can be set to make all posters anonymous. it is irreversible though. so there could be an anonymous subverse for news or something I suppose.

jerry

OP i see both of your posts on both accounts.

Enshag

You can only see it, if you click on my username directly. It doesn't appear in r/conspiracy .

Mumberthrax

yeah it's not a site-wide shadowban, just a "soft shadowban" applied via automoderator silently removing posts and comments from the accounts. It's doing it because it's programmed to by the mods on /r/conspiracy for all young accounts - once they get to be a few weeks old then it no longer removes them, as far as I am aware.

Mumberthrax

/r/conspiracy has an automoderator thing set up that removes any comment or posts from accounts younger than a certain amount of time - I want to say its like two weeks, maybe three. They set this up ostensibly to deter trolls/spam from sockpuppets of banned users.

Edit: actually, one moment. i'm going to check the moderation logs since they're publishing them using my /r/publicmodlogs dealio.

edit2: yeah here you go: https://modlog.github.io/#/r/conspiracy that page only shows the last 100 items afaik, but if you see my comment here and check it before it slides off the page, you can see your two posts and one comment were removed by automoderator. Now as to what rule it was following - whether they put your name in the automoderator config specifically or some other metric, I couldn't say - but it is consistent with what I've heard about it being set up to remove content from new accounts.

Edit3: i derped around with the url a bit, not sure if this will exist long term or if it too will disappear after a while, but this should show the removal data: https://www.reddit.com/v/Conspiracy/about/log/.json?feed=c7b83b457469643f1912d5fee30e18dba808f351&user=publicmodlogs&limit=3&before=ModAction_46adff5e-3375-11e5-b914-0edb641cd028

(Thank publicmodlogs for this)

sturle

I checked, but it that account does not look like it's shadowbanned.

http://nullprogram.com/am-i-shadowbanned/#Buansohn

sturle

You can also try a post here to check:

https://www.reddit.com/r/shadowban

Enshag

Weird. My posts and my only comment are invisible. How is that called?

bami

all my interactions with voat are being blocked by cloudfare for no reason at all

I can't comment, I can't vote. I have to use a proxy to even do anything. For that reason I'm deleting all my comments and my account.

nokilli

They said they're working on new ideas to censor content. So I'm guessing we can call it beta .

escapefromredditbay

tor users perhaps? not a good sign in any case.