Same. The dutch subreddit mods will ban anyone that doesn't align with them on tiny things. So if you want to keep contributing to that community you must swim with the majority or they will ban you.
I often go against the flow in thenetherlands and I haven't gotten banned. You get downvoted to oblivion if you dare go against the progressive, young, left-leaning narrative of the sub, but the same is true on any network. I don't think the "tiny things" will get you banned from the Dutch subreddits, though; it's mostly broad strokes (just post that you've considered voting on one of the "wrong" parties once and you'll get flack). It's a pretty bad situation, but it's the same situation you find on any platform.
HN has some very clear biases that you simply must subscribe to if you don't want your comment to be downvoted. It's clear that people here have certain stocks and don't like certain companies to be put in a negative light, for example. I don't think my account suffers the problems from this too often, but I've seen plenty of comments here at the bottom of the comment section simply because they disagreed with the status quo or because they asked an uncomfortable question.
Every now and then, I also see shadowbanned people here, who continue to make nearly invisible posts for a while and then just leave, seemingly caught by some kind of automatic filter or punished severely for a dumb comment weeks ago.
The reason I'm shadowbanned is because I replied to someone who was describing every "FVD" voter as egotistical nazi fascists, that this opinion was toxic, helping no one and he should consider why people actually vote for them. This was just after they won or nearly won some part of an election. I think I'm still shadowbanned for, I think, quite a reasonable comment.
Besides I think you cannot compare shadow banning, banning and down voting at all. Shadow banning should only be reserved for spam. Banning for obvious trolls. If you get down voted that's fine. It only shows your views don't align well with the group majority.
I always wondered why /r/thenetherlands was so left and (very?) progressive and I never saw any comments giving counter weight. But now I know the mods are so quick to shadowban I am not sure I should even bother with the subreddit anymore, it's mostly bullshit anyway.
I didn't know either. I just thought it was because reddit in general is quite left leaning. But the post above triggered me. I just thought I was the unlucky target of a mod with a bad day. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
