In this post, I will cover and provide proof with pictures of the active censorship and unethical actions that are going on at r/Vechain.Vechain is a project that has been touted as one of the most promising crypto projects, partnering with many world-class companies like DNVGL, Walmart China, BMW, etc...(I am not shilling Vechain in any form whatsoever) and I just want to say this is in no way shape or form an attack at the actual project. Despite the terrible price action in the last few months, I believe it can still be a powerhouse of a project just because of the legitimacy of its partnerships.My issue arises with the r/Vechain community and the mods that run the subreddit specifically the mod u/SolomonGrundle. First I will show actual concrete proof including pictures and then I will make unproven accusations and provide my suspicions regarding the community.CONTEXTSo during the 2017 bull market, I became a part of the r/Vechain community when I started buying it in small chunks when VET was still an ERC 20 token and was called VEN. I bought small amounts at that time and finally, during 2018 I bought enough to hold a Node, so needless to say I have no reason to spread misinformation and FUD about the project that I still support and I am heavily invested in. 2018, 2019, and half of 2020 have been a full-on Bear market and I expected no gains on my investment and kept accumulating and always asked many others to do so as well. I never questioned the validity of the project and always supported the project and justified its price action. But when 2020 arrived and BTC started to rally, I started to question the price action and thus also questioned if the token had actual value or not. I remember there were several comments on the daily thread that showed proof of Vechain Foundation moving funds to Binance account and were suspicious of them dumping the token in large amounts. It definitely made sense since VET is infamous for its strange price action of the price going down every time any good news comes out of such as partnerships etc... From my vague memory (since it happened 3 or 4 months ago) I supported this claim and agreed that it could definitely be possible and one of the mod replied to my comment giving me a warning and asking me not to make false accusations since there was no proof. This was a legitimate concern to me since-Accusations that show proof of Vechain Foundation wallet addresses transferring funds to Binance wallets and the price going down shortly after (makes perfect sense to me) is questioned and not allowed.False price predictions of $1 EOY and moon boys are 100% allowed and upvoted (one has some proof while the other has no proof of ever happening but is still somehow more valid than the other???).But it doesn't end here. I believe raising that question and going back and forth with the mods about this matter got me shadowbanned. Although I check the subreddit regularly I don't always leave a comment unless I really need to. I believe every comment I have made after that is only seen by me and I have never gotten any interactions on my posts or comment after that no matter how controversial my comments are, so I believe I am 100% shadowbanned without a doubt. But I am not the only one being censored, today there was a post that questioned the tokenomics regarding VET and its secondary token VeThor. The post gained quite a lot of attention and the original poster was asking legitimate questions in a polite and orderly manner. Neither the poster break any rules nor was he disrespectful towards the project or the commenters replying to his comment. But low and behold the post was removed as well. So censorship there as well.HARD PROOFSProof of a member questioning why the post was removed. (I didn't know I could only upload one image per thread, I will post Imgur links for others). Unfortunately, I do not have the screenshot of the actual thread that was deleted but this should do I believe.https://ift.tt/3pgPk04 another member arguing that the post was educational and would have answered several concerns the newcomers would have about the project otherwise (which I obviously agree).https://imgur.com/a/UmOQIbHNow, remember that I had been shadowbanned months ago but I was naive to never find out or it never even occurred to me that mods could even do such a thing. I had blindly trusted this project for a while and couldn't even fathom that mods could shadowban me for asking legitimate questions. I recently found out in December 18 and DM'd 2 mods one of them being u/SolomonGrundle and one other mod u/vincentlee8. Both never responded. BUT AFTER 3 hours of making my first post here on r/cc accusing them of unreasonable censorship, u/SolomonGrundle was very slick to message me and responded right away to my message and was very nice about it. Not only that, he even goes to the deleted thread and says that I am not shadowbanned and I am making false accusations about the subreddit.Long story short - I deleted my post without him asking because I thought he wasn't responsible for my shadowban and would resolve my issue. But right after I deleted my post he never responded despite me messaging him several times. Here is proof of the conversation.1) https://ift.tt/3ay4fic) https://ift.tt/3petMB5) https://ift.tt/2KI7SHw) https://imgur.com/a/PpLcyfXHere is the deleted post I made 3 days ago which wasn't received quite well with the community because I never provided any proof about my accusations and was quite rude to some commenters because of a little frustration (my fault there is no excuse to be rude).So I am providing proof this time of everything and as much as I can gather.https://imgur.com/a/b0wbT8JSOFT PROOF AND ACCUSATIONSThere are many more people like me shadowbanned for no reason who still do not know they have been shadowbanned and are still commenting on r/Vechain daily. You can know this by counting the number of actual replies which do not match with the number of replies given on the top of the thread. During my time of writing this at 2:30 AM the actual number of replies are 175 with a margin of error of let's say 2, but the number of replies (shown by the orange circle) does not match the number of replies counted. https://ift.tt/34ymSia happens with 90% of the daily threads. Vechain has approximately 69,302 members and only about 200 are actively commenting right now. There is more than enough reason to believe that many people have been shadowbanned for the same reason as I have which is asking a legitimate question.ACCUSATION THAT I HAVE NO PROOF OFThere are upvote bots in r/Vechain (or maybe it's just naive newbies like I was) that upvote positive things about VET and downvote comments that question VET's price or the project itself. The reason I believe so is, initially when a post that is obviously stupid and weird such as commenting "Price is recovering nicely" when it goes down 15% and then goes up 3%, initially within 5 minutes there are many downvotes to that comment, but over time in matter of hours that comment turns into upvoted comment even when the price is still down. There are many comments like this in daily when a comment gets downvoted initially and it turns into an upvote. I could be wrong and no one has any reason to believe since I lack proof but I might or might not be wrong about this one.To u/SolomonGrundle - If you really wanted to protect the reputation of the community and want people to view r/Vechain in a positive light, you have taken the wrong direction. Censorship is the bane of free speech and any project that doesn't let its members speak is unlikely to succeed. If you thought censoring me and not letting me speak would protect your reputation you are also wrong. The only reason I made this post is because of my love for this project, and not to slander it. There is no connection between the Vechain Foundation and the subreddit r/Vechain and I believe VET is still a legitimate project, but you making wrong decisions and censoring people is jeopardizing the project's reputation.TLDR - There is heavy censorship going on at r/Vechain and the mods are unreliable and give false hope. I have been shadowbanned and a post that was received very well with the community has been removed for questioning the project and its value. I provide evidence for it.
Submitted December 22, 2020 at 04:51PM
No comments:
Post a Comment