Shadow-Banned Because Downvoting Too Fast

I have a quick question for you. Is it possible to get shadow-banned on Reddit for downvoting too many comments or posts in a short amount of time? I ask because my friend was shadow-banned before, but he didn't break any Reddit TOS.

Reddit can definitely detect multiple accounts from the same owner upvoting/downvoting content by linking them by a common characteristic.

Can be detected, yes, depends on setup

Reddit "fuzzes" voting, adding arbitrary upvotes and downvotes at time. The purpose is that when it detects bot behavior it can effectively shadowban their voting. Since everyone sees the fuzzing happen to them at times it's difficult to tell if your particular vote was being suppressed or you are just seeing natural fuzziness to the voting scores

yes, anything that looks out of the normal, too robotic or automatic will be suspicious for them and flag the account slow is better sometimes.

Don't do that, at least mix some upvotes in there and delay between them.

Accounts that only downvote or upvote a lot of content in short time are being easily detected and banned by reddit.

Mix some scrolling posting between upvotes/downvotes and it should be better.

Yep happen, reddit expect even from people to act like people not only from bots/software. Somehow is a weird place reddit

While getting shadowbanned for just downvoting is unlikely, it's not entirely impossible. Reddit's spam filters can be a bit overzealous sometimes. Downvoting a lot quickly can sometimes trigger the spam filter if it thinks you're a bot trying to manipulate votes. Especially if your account is new or doesn't have a lot of activity. More likely, your friend might have gotten caught up in something else. Did they accidentally downvote a bunch of comments from the same user in a short time? That could look suspicious. Or maybe they were posting and downvoting on a new account way too fast.

Check the actual Reddit rules, make sure they didn't accidentally break a rule they weren't aware of. You can find them on https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy.

Test a new post , try posting something harmless on a different subreddit and see if it shows up. Contact Reddit Support, ıf they're still stuck, Reddit support might be able to shed some light on the situation.

FlyingCow said:

I have a quick question for you. Is it possible to get shadow-banned on Reddit for downvoting too many comments or posts in a short amount of time? I ask because my friend was shadow-banned before, but he didn't break any Reddit TOS.

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It's not known if that happens or not. It's possible. No way to confirm it.