[...] Thinking the posts you made on Reddit are something permanent you can link to is a mistake when the company feels and has no obligation to you. In the rest of this post, I'll say a little more about what I've been up to lately, and how I came to be classified as a bot by Reddit.

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Since I was being open about writing the book, I made the two posts about the book using that account. Alas, there were a couple of issues:

• That account hadn't been used in quite a while.

• I was posting to subreddits that that account hadn't really participated in before.

• I was posting about a domain that was basically unheard of.

These factors, of course, triggered Reddit's bot-detection algorithms, which are designed to identify and block spam accounts, many of which come from hijacked existing accounts. So my account was shadowbanned.