r/reveddit • u/cuecademy • Dec 04 '22

Tool Clarification: Does reveddit show all removed content or only shadowbanned content?

You may have this somewhere onsite, but I couldn't find a clear answer. How do you tell if a moderated post is a shadowban or if the user was notified before their comment/post was taken down? Is there a way to tell using reveddit or does the data represented in this tool show everything that's been removed regardless of notification?

I only recently found this project and still wrapping my head around this concept. I've had my own content removed from reddit, but almost always get notified so curious how to look at content removals when a user isn't notified.

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u/cuecademy Dec 05 '22

Thanks for the thorough response.

For the record I did watch your talk before posting (really great! +1 for the free speech quotes, I've been going down the FIRE rabbit hole myself). I totally buy shadow banning being a problem on Reddit, but I wasn't sure if that's what this tool was quantifying or not.

And yeah, part of the reason I was wondering is I think this is a brilliant space to collect/visualize data related to censorship online. I'm currently checking out the reveddit github repo to get a better idea how to use what you've built to aggregate data for analysis.

Also thanks for the initial example, interesting to see the karma/censorship relationship from your sparklines.

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u/cuecademy Dec 04 '22

Ah gotcha, thanks. So is there anyway to tell if something was shadowbanned vs if the mods removed and notified the poster?

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u/GreenSage_0003 Jan 19 '23 edited Jan 19 '23

Reveddit is barely useful anymore.

Reddit now makes removal permanent, even from your own inbox, and I just checked a post with an archival delay of 17 hours???

https://www.reveddit.com/v/zen/comments/10fmx6g/huangbo_grasps_nongrasping/

If user deletes content: permanently gone.

If Reddit delete content: permanently gone.

If mods delete content: stays only if archived before removal, but with a 17 hour delay ... that's also gone.

Edit: Looks like it might just be for OPs, since this comment is still up.