Reddit Thinks I'm a Spammer

The goal of reddit has always been to provide something good to read when you're bored. The policies are optimized for this use case.<p>The goal of reddit is emphatically not to provide a promotion vehicle for a given content producer.<p>In other words, if the reddit listings are dull, that's a major problem. If a particular site isn't making it through to a particular listing, well, if there's time someone might look into it. But it's just not a top priority.<p>And frankly, if you only participate in the site to promote your own content, I'm not so sure I'd call the spam filter wrong in this case.

Reddit is absolutely right to put no weight on the "acceptance" of submitted stories, it's <i>easy</i> to get stories "accepted" on sites like Reddit and HN - there are a ton of blog posts on the best times, the best keywords and how to correctly exploit the herd mentality. And that's not even taking into consideration fake accounts that can support a spammer for a long time.<p>You look pretty spammy here too by the way, exactly the same symptoms that makes reddit "think" you are spamming - only submitting and commenting on your own site.<p>Someone should automate violentacrez' guide and make a lookup service for social news sites. Reddit just recently busted major news sites spamming them, they will have missed a shitload of them and of course HN / digg / stumbleupon / etc certainly aren't immune either.

He is complaining about being labelled a spammer on Reddit, writes a blog post with as much substance as a marshmallow and then posts it on HN?<p>This article should be flagged for spam here, this isn't a venting site for your Reddit frustrations.

Interesting, unfortunate, but not as nefarious as outright censorship, which is what happened to me:<p><a href="http://arachnoid.com/psychology/reddit_psychology.html" rel="nofollow">http://arachnoid.com/psychology/reddit_psychology.html</a><p>In short, a Reddit moderator took offense at my expressed position on the status of psychology as a science, and bluntly told me that I couldn't post my view on that specific topic, and if I did, I would be banned. He made it clear that I could post any viewpoint I wanted <i>except that specific viewpoint</i>.<p>Once I realized it was censorship, that I had done nothing wrong except to offend a specific moderator who felt justified in silencing me, I stopped posting to Reddit.

I was a prolific reader of /r/programming, and even submitted good links that were quickly upvoted. Then the spam filer got me, and kept getting me, so I left.<p>Except there was no spam,... just a mod that decided to remove some submits that he thought were off-topic (they were not), and me making more than 1 or 2 submits every week.<p>Before posting to reddit, make sure that 1) you've upvoted/downvoted something, and 2) made some comments on other threads.

The filter seems to try and measure self-interested intent, which correlates well with spam. However, they're not the same thing. In the content of fighting spam, if a user is providing things people are genuinely interested in, then their intent is irrelevant.