On the reddit I posted something yesterday and now there are two comments under it but for some reason I can’t see them. I tried with a clean profile of two browsers (Waterfox & Firefox), disabled the adblocker to see whether they’ll appear (they didn’t), deleted cookies for reddit and relogged anew but still no comments. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? Am I missing something, a setting maybe? I sent a message to the moderators of the subreddit but whether they’ll answer at all - IDK.
It’s possible the commenters are shadow banned.
Shadow banning is useful for combating bot accounts and spammers, because straight up banning them just means they’ll create a new bot account.
Interesting. I didn’t know that, thanks.
I don’t use reddit much, but I had to post something about an extension in the firefox subreddit and I was surprised to not see the comments. I used to like reddit back when it was all HTML only, ever since it became JS I mostly abandoned it. :)
I will never understand the thought process of coming here…to ask about why something isn’t working on Reddit.
Well, if you’re having issues with a site, it kinda makes sense to look for answers outside of that site. And Lemmy has a high number of tech savvy users, many of which migrated from Reddit.
For instance, I know that a common reason why the first few comments won’t show is because they’re shadow banned spam accounts.
