Testing Reddit's New Filters Together.

Lately it feels like almost everyone doing any kind of promotion on Reddit is running into the same problems: comments getting silently removed, posts disappearing, and accounts getting shadow banned. Why don't we work together and use this thread to test different methods? Whenever someone tries something new, just post an update on whether it worked, the comment was removed, or the account got shadow banned. This way we can avoid wasting time repeating methods that no longer work. I'll start today with a new test and update this thread with the results. Recently I noticed that mentioning my brand name in a comment, even without a link, gets the comment removed and eventually leads to a shadow ban.

My next test is different. I have old comments on aged accounts that already mention my brand. Instead of mentioning it again, I'll naturally engage in discussions and share a link to one of those old comments so anyone interested can find the brand there. I think it can work since it's an internal link and not external. The conversion rate will probably be lower, but if it avoids Reddit's filters, it might be worth it.

If you're interested, let's work on this together and share our findings.

I'm struggling with this shit too, unfortunately most people talking about Reddit here are bots and AI spammers, but I'm sure there are some human beings to share some knowledge

My next test will be trying more white hat niches to check if they are only monitoring black hat ones or if it's general and we are totally cooked

My account got hit because I posted wallpaper. Silly!

Hunter spirit said:

Lately it feels like almost everyone doing any kind of promotion on Reddit is running into the same problems: comments getting silently removed, posts disappearing, and accounts getting shadow banned.

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There is an advantage of owning a subreddit. Your posts stay up, can be pinned and more.

I was thinking about buying a subreddit, but I assume you need to have a strong aged account for that

I think Reddit is evaluating account behavior much more than individual posts now.

iFreelancer said:

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My account got hit because I posted wallpaper. Silly!

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I got that quite often after I got temp banned.

Seems they lower your trust for a while but now it's fine for me.

Venusaur said:

I'm struggling with this shit too, unfortunately most people talking about Reddit here are bots and AI spammers, but I'm sure there are some human beings to share some knowledge

My next test will be trying more white hat niches to check if they are only monitoring black hat ones or if it's general and we are totally cooked

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I've tried white niche and seems to be fine. No comment was deleted or anything.

OnlineA said:

There is an advantage of owning a subreddit. Your posts stay up, can be pinned and more.

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That's true, but it's way cheaper to find a solution than paying $$$ for a simple post.

Vynith said:

I got that quite often after I got temp banned.

Seems they lower your trust for a while but now it's fine for me.

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Yep. I think you can use the r/WhatIsMyCQS to see your score on reddit. But the problem is even with high score the comment is removed immediately.

I just checked an account I was trying to warm up. I was literally only commenting in the photography niche, and it's already shadow banned. LOL

Good idea for a thread, but the results will be noise unless everyone separates the failure modes first. What gets called a shadowban is usually one of about four different things: a genuine sitewide admin suppression, which is rare; AutoMod filtering triggered by low CQS, which silently eats posts across many subs at once; per subreddit crowd control, which just collapses your comments by default; or domain level suppression of one specific URL. Those have different causes and different fixes, so a bare "comment removed" tells the next person almost nothing. If updates included the sub, whether the comment is still visible in a logged out incognito window, and the CQS tier at the time, this would actually compound. Your photography account getting hit while commenting purely in-niche points at account level CQS rather than anything about the comments themselves.