If you're a newbie, step aside and get shadowbanned
The platform itself seemed quite friendly to me at first. I used network for about a month, rarely engaging in discussions. The other day, I stumbled upon a group for trading/selling in-game items for a certain interesting for me game between players and posted 'I want to buy'-offer for a specific item. About 15 hours later, I posted another buy-offer for another item, but the post was automatically blocked by the subreddit - as it later turned out, the subreddit's rules don't allow more than one buy/sell offer to be posted in 20 hours. I received a warning from the subreddit, but a couple of minutes later, I discovered that Reddit itself had shadowbanned me. Before I even realized what was happening, I managed to ask a subreddit moderator to unban me, but was told I had no restrictions and that Reddit gave me shadowban. Reddit won't send you a shadowban notification by email, so you'll have to spend your time figuring out what happened. The official position is that this is done to combat spammers and bots, but ultimately, a HUGE portion of new users are being targeted. I filed an appeal against the ban, and I read that moderators can take anywhere from A FEW DAYS TO MONTHS to review it. This is unacceptable. I don't intend to waste my nerves on a long wait. A reasonable time frame for reviewing such cases should be up to several hours. Although that's still too much. I'm ending my work with this platform, and given Reddit's complete disinterest in new users, I don't recommend using the network. The disregard for users is exactly what Reddit deserves from users as well.