Change in behavior for viewing banned posts for gold users

I had a post a while ago asking about how to filter out "removed" posts - i.e. posts which exist but can't actually be viewed. I was told Gold users can view banned posts but not ones which are paid rewards. It seems like this has changed at some point, as I'm now receiving "removed" posts even when searching with the tag -(is:banned paid_reward). What is the new combination of tags needed to filter out these posts for gold users?

For instance, this search only returns 10/20 posts on the first page.

The banned posts in the search are from lolita_channel, a banned artist which is actually a tag for a circle. Idk much about Gold level and its changes to help you.

That aside, IMO the posts should only have the artists and not the publisher circle tagged, but anyway.

Gotcha, so I should also be filtering out banned_artist?

It kind of looks like there are more things I need to filter out. This search still has a bunch of removed posts. It's kind of looking like gold users can't see any banned posts now?

bleachisback said:

It's kind of looking like gold users can't see any banned posts now?

They can't, as far as I recall. This was changed a while ago. Banned posts are Approver+ only. -status:banned is what you'll want now.

Cool, thanks for confirming.