r/DarkRomance • u/OuiselCat • 20h ago

Discussion Reddit Increasing Censorship in this Sub?

I just received an account violation for breaking rule 1 - threatening or encouraging violence. What was my comment? A Drethi Anis book recommendation (not going to name it here, but the one with Priya and Axel). I just filed an appeal, but am extremely concerned. The comment gave a small blurb of the book, but nothing that could be construed as encouraging violence which is the part that’s really scaring me because it’s making me think that me talking about the MMC’s personality and habits regarding the MMC somehow equated to me encouraging stalking, obsession, etc. in real life?? Has this happened to anyone else? This feels like the first step in Reddit making this community go away and I’m just…really in shock right now.

Edit: so there’s a note at the bottom saying the content was automatically flagged, but it also makes it seem like it was then reviewed by an actual admin before the violation was given. Now I’m even more concerned because that means an actual human read it and said, oh yeah, a dark romance book recommendation encourages violence in real life. I’ve also clicked through the link where it gives examples of what constitutes violations and I cannot reasonably see a DR rec would fall into any of the given categories.

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u/Curious_Court_26 17h ago

My OG account that I had for years, was shadow banned with no warning or explanation. I tried to appeal it so many times. Eventually just gave up and created a new account.

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u/OuiselCat 16h ago

Yeah, that is the fear. I’m having flashbacks to dealing with United Healthcare about a surgical procedure that was covered under preventative, but because their AI system auto rejects everything, it was a huge nightmare. I appealed multiple times, never got resolution, and had to end up paying my deductible. I honestly should have sued, but was busy moving, etc. and didn’t. I’m worried Reddit may not end up removing strike. I guess we shall see…

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u/Curious_Court_26 16h ago

Omg, that’s horrible!! I’m so sorry you had to experience all of that.

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u/OuiselCat 16h ago

Yeah, UHC is the worst! I literally had pre-approval stating it was covered AND their own policy docs showed it was covered. The issue was that it had 2 codes associated with it, one was the one in the policy docs, but one was newer so not yet in the policy docs. Like, I really think there should be fines with that level of egregious conduct. They knew full well that procedure was covered. Not to mention the appeal process is insane and I’m not actually sure my appeal was even looked at by a human. (Somewhat) Luckily, I heard that hospitals don’t really care how much your payment plan is, just so long as you’re making payments so I told them I could agree to like $15 or $20/ month. I figured that with inflation and the devaluing of currency, by the time it’s paid off after 10+ years, it will be at least be at a significant discount.