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I'm not sure that's justification for continuing the policy. Most people are surprised to discover mods can "remove your comment and it still shows up on your side as if it wasn't removed". [1]

Reddit gave mods the ability to shadow ban about 5 years ago via automod [2]. Now even crowd control can remove comments [3]. These features would be fine, in my opinion, if users could discover when their comments were removed.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/jp4j76/google_a...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6bj5de/state_of_sp...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/qhpr6i/crowd_contr...



The issue is that auto mods are stupid and heavy handed, and backed up by authoritarian mods making conversation impossible.

I get it, and I don’t have to keep attempting to contribute to it.




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