My understanding is that mods can silently remove content from their subreddits, but it will still show up in your comment-history. However, admins can silently remove content and it will NOT be in your comment history. Well, when I’m logged out, I noticed some of my comments were “removed” but when I’m logged in they show up. Looking at the comments more closely, I don’t believe they broke any rules…at least not site-wide rules. I received no notification that they were removed either.
Further, these comments ALL related to the Trump/Zelensky interview. I get the need to moderate online communities, but there’s something particularly dystopian about quietly censoring someone for expressing political-speech you don’t like, and doing it in such a way that they (theoretically) don’t even realize they’ve been censored (if they’re not weird paranoid fucks like me). You’ve just secretly put a bubble around them, all for the crime of political speech you don’t like.
Here are some screenshots to verify what I’m saying:
https://i.imgur.com/kff8INQ.png
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And so the same thing happened when I posted this exact post (above the “…”) in another sub on Reddit…one I participate in regularly. And here’s how that looks:
I haven’t kept up to date with Reddit, but it is also my understanding that removed comments by mods are not removed from your comment history, so this looks like something site wide.
Also user-targeted automod actions (the mod-level version of shadowbanning) were a pain to set up, so it’s more likely to be at the admin-level if it’s happening in multiple subs.
You can message the mods of one of those subs to ask why. Many will probably assume you’re being removed for a good reason and ignore you, but someone will probably be willing to say “it’s not us”. Humanize your message as much as possible. Mention your account age (if it’s not young) and that you see comments staying up in other subreddits.