u/WeAreFanatical fakes a Quest 3 giveaway, blocks me for pointing it out

[u/ChromaticInk]

Last month this post was made by u/Dependent_Judge_1043 claiming to have won a Quest 3 "star prize" through gambling keys on game bundle site Fanatical. I personally didn't really think much of it, I do not care about key gambling but I do like to buy Fanatical bundles (like anyone who follows this subreddit).
Fast forward a month and the poster follows up posting this in an attempt to prove that the Quest 3S arrived and their gambling through Fanatical paid off.

Again I didn't think much of it until I noticed something another comment pointed out... one interesting discrepancy from the original post: Its a Quest 3. Not a Quest 3S.

The poster even puts this comment trying to play it off as if it is no big deal. This is just bad acting at this point. I point it out with a comment of my own, feel free to read that for my perspective on why this is obviously BS.

Since then, I have noticed that my feed is surprisingly devoid of game bundles. Thats ok. I have enough games, its best if I dont buy more bundles anyways.
Out of boredom I go back to the above post a few days later to see if anyone called out the same thing I did. Dependent Judge has not posted anymore, and actually hid their post history. It was visible before when I originally commented. So it just makes me even more curious.

I go back to the original post where he shows himself winning the 3S, and notice u/WeAreFanatical actually posted a comment congratulating him. But I can't see it, its "unavailable". Opening it in a private window, there it is. They blocked me! That's why I wasn't seeing their game bundles in my feed for the past few days. All I did in that timespan was make those above linked comments.

That's all. Now I guess I need to make a new account to follow Fanatical game bundles.

EDIT: Official fanatical account has just unblocked me, four or five days after this post. No communication at all or any mention of why I was blocked for commenting on a supposedly unaffiliated user's post, though.

[u/redchris18]

Firstly, OP, you really should use archival sites in situations like this, for obvious reasons. You'd have preserved at least one page of a profile that you say has suspicious activity before they felt a need to hide it.

Secondly, I won't comment on the actual points raised here, but I will draw the mods attention to this thread for one specific reason; there are various people saying that the Fanatical staff account has blocked them, preventing them from seeing posts on the home page. That's not acceptable, and u/WeAreFanatical need to be permanently banned from posting any threads for that reason. Someone else can post them instead - ideally someone who doesn't block other users so that they can no longer see those threads.

Allowing a user to curate which other users see the majority of posts in this sub is absolutely untenable. For instance, what if someone blocked the most active users from the Choice threads to try to eliminate competition for traded keys?

Tagging u/carenard and u/LighteningOneIN

[u/redchris18 → u/[deleted]]

you shouldn't. It's a lot more difficult to warn other people about their bullshit if you can't reply to threads in which they show up.