Reddit Blocked Our Pro-Bitcoin, Anti-Banking Site BanksWorstFear.com - entirely

[BanksWorstFear]

Our Official post about it:
http://banksworstfear.com/bitcoin-site-banned-need-decentralized-open-source-reddit


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A few days ago our whole domain was blocked from ALL of Reddit.com -
potentially unrelated was our username was shadowbanned including our WHOLE IP Address.

Evidence: Multiple submissions to different subreddits from multiple users do not show up in the main subreddits

Example 1: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2fn0rd/traditional_banking_so_damn_annoying/
[Link in r/bitcoin, did not show up in bitcoin reddit. User is NOT shadowbanned]

Example 2: Another user post to r/bitdrop reddit which I AM moderator, submission doesn't appear:

Submission:
http://www.reddit.com/r/BitDrop/comments/2fo9kb/the_bit_drop_details_interview_with_project/

submission not appearing: http://www.reddit.com/r/BitDrop/new/

User not shadowbanned: http://nullprogram.com/am-i-shadowbanned/#tkron31

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Little over a week ago we broke the Dominica Bit Drop Story which got over 7,000 hits from reddit:
http://banksworstfear.com/entire-population-caribbean-country-dominica-receiving-free-bitcoins-early-2015-let-bit-drop/

Reddit post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2erxuo/breaking_over_70000_residents_of_dominca_getting/

Shadowbanned Status:
http://nullprogram.com/am-i-shadowbanned/#BanksWorstFear

[Morguk]

Not good! Did they give any reasoning?

[bbit]

de-centralized reddit next ?

[BanksWorstFear]

Not good! Did they give any reasoning?

NONE at all.

de-centralized reddit next ?

That's what I just advocated:

https://twitter.com/BanksWorstFear/status/508392078489837568

[pedrog]

Were you spamming your website all over Reddit?

[BanksWorstFear]

Were you spamming your website all over Reddit?

What do you mean? No we were not.

We submitted articles to relevant subreddits. one or two per article. In no regards should we be considered spamming as our content was highly relevant to where we posted it.

2,106 link karma
285 comment karma

Our posts were well received. 90% always voted up

Unless someone I don't know was posting. That's just ridiciulous.

Then anyone can go spamming a site they don't like and get them banned. What the hell are upvotes for if they think they need to filter out bad content by banning?

[bbit]

Not good! Did they give any reasoning?

NONE at all.

de-centralized reddit next ?

That's what I just advocated:

https://twitter.com/BanksWorstFear/status/508392078489837568

Wow, perfect timing

[pedrog]

It might be a glitch then, contact support, they can be more helpful than us.

[BanksWorstFear]

It might be a glitch then, contact support, they can be more helpful than us.

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Trying again. they have not responded to me as of yet. Emailed a few days ago

[BanksWorstFear]

There's a reddit alternative:

http://whoaverse.com/v/bitcoin/comments/25261

[commandrix]

Gee whiz! I work closely enough with BanksWorstFear that I know for sure that we weren't doing anything that could be considered spamming. Especially not when I try to "space things out" by posting links to unrelated websites too.

[thedaemon23]

It's a shame reddit would do this without any warning, especially to a website that lives 100% off the donations of it's readers (aka no ads on the website). Messing with people's livelihoods for no apparent reason just irks me. What bothers me even more is that banksworstfear has free educational materials, videos, and action items that promote mainstream adoption of bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies. Blocking them is blocking free speech.

Reddit - why did you block banksworstfear.com?

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2foefe/banksworstfearcom_banned_on_reddit_for_writing/

[BanksWorstFear]

Apparently supporting the bitdrop:

re: Site appears to be banned
from Sporkicide[A] via /r/reddit.com/ sent 42 minutes ago
You and your site are banned because you were paying people to post. Due to the nature of the offense, neither you or the site will be unbanned.

Admin: http://www.reddit.com/user/Sporkicide

[dopecoindude]

Apparently supporting the bitdrop:

re: Site appears to be banned
from Sporkicide[A] via /r/reddit.com/ sent 42 minutes ago
You and your site are banned because you were paying people to post. Due to the nature of the offense, neither you or the site will be unbanned.

Admin: http://www.reddit.com/user/Sporkicide

How do they know that?

Is it true?

[BanksWorstFear]

Apparently supporting the bitdrop:

re: Site appears to be banned
from Sporkicide[A] via /r/reddit.com/ sent 42 minutes ago
You and your site are banned because you were paying people to post. Due to the nature of the offense, neither you or the site will be unbanned.

Admin: http://www.reddit.com/user/Sporkicide

How do they know that?

Is it true?

This is what I did:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=765470

I don't see how this being no directly related to my site means they should ban my site.

[dopecoindude]

Apparently supporting the bitdrop:

re: Site appears to be banned
from Sporkicide[A] via /r/reddit.com/ sent 42 minutes ago
You and your site are banned because you were paying people to post. Due to the nature of the offense, neither you or the site will be unbanned.

Admin: http://www.reddit.com/user/Sporkicide

How do they know that?

Is it true?

This is what I did:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=765470

I don't see how this being no directly related to my site means they should ban my site.

And my second question 

[BanksWorstFear]

They do what they want; they run the site. Reddit is discriminatory against content creators!

[commandrix]

They do what they want; they run the site. Reddit is discriminatory against content creators!

A lot of the world is, I noticed. Especially when the content creators don't have a lot of money (or Bitcoin) for promotion.

[dopecoindude]

They do what they want; they run the site. Reddit is discriminatory against content creators!

I mean like how did reddit find out what you were doing there on BTCtalk ?

[itsAj]

Apparently supporting the bitdrop:

re: Site appears to be banned
from Sporkicide[A] via /r/reddit.com/ sent 42 minutes ago
You and your site are banned because you were paying people to post. Due to the nature of the offense, neither you or the site will be unbanned.

Admin: http://www.reddit.com/user/Sporkicide

How do they know that?

Is it true?

This is speculation, but if the reddit admins have "shadow" accounts then they can check for opportunities of getting paid to post. They can also search the internet, various forums, ect for offers to get paid for posting on reddit.