First account banned on r/australia only by AI for inciting violence on r/australia for technical discussion of BJJ. I appealed the ban.
Second account, I messaged the r/australia mods to ban the account so I didn’t get busted for ban evasion. Ban given.
First account has AI ban revoked. I eventually make a comment on r/australia, ban evasion bots see the IP or email address attached to the account matches their shitlist, bots go into ban evasion mode, accounts get permanently suspended.
I had about seven reddit accounts. A bunch of novelty ones made during lockdown. I requested bans from r/australia on these accounts, I only got temp 28 day bans on some. I eventually made a comment on r/australia, got the ban evasion message from r/australia auto-mod, replied impolitely that I’d already reqested a ban months ago and I was glad to be banned. All my reddit accounts got nuked. New accounts from IP or email get nuked. New account from temp email and vpn is fine.
Interesting. I’ve ban evaded a few times too, honestly. I got permanently banned from a sub about a video game for asking about sales, and eventually again on my next 2 accounts (basic variations of the same name, although I didn’t create them with the sole intent of ban evasion). I left when Reddit pulled their shit though, so none of my accounts were ever flagged
Honestly from a mod perspective though, I do understand it. We had one really determined troll on a relatively small sub (70k members) I modded who made dozens of accounts a day for about 6 months and it sucked. Reddit nuked their accounts for ban evasion after a manual report, but they take anywhere between 12-48 hours to reply, by which time old mate troll face has already cycled through another 15 accounts. I think my issue with bans is “permanent” bans. It just seems excessive to ban people for the rest of eternity over one or 2 comments with no avenue of appeal. I’ll admit that I’m guilty of this too, I have and will continue to permanently ban people in the future, but if somebody actually comes back and apologises (for some reason extremely rare), I am usually willing to at least hear them out
r/Australia is pretty well known as the place to go to if you want to be in a community where the mods are somehow bigger dicks than the users. r/Melbourne wasn’t that far behind them either imo (present company and the Melb DT excepted, of course)
Look it is what it is. With the API changes and IPO, I feel reddit has been circling the drain. Mods needing to use these bots is a sign of the end times. The new account created isn’t allowed to post anywhere due to age and karma, which’ll put genuine new users off IMO.
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Interesting. I’ve ban evaded a few times too, honestly. I got permanently banned from a sub about a video game for asking about sales, and eventually again on my next 2 accounts (basic variations of the same name, although I didn’t create them with the sole intent of ban evasion). I left when Reddit pulled their shit though, so none of my accounts were ever flagged
Honestly from a mod perspective though, I do understand it. We had one really determined troll on a relatively small sub (70k members) I modded who made dozens of accounts a day for about 6 months and it sucked. Reddit nuked their accounts for ban evasion after a manual report, but they take anywhere between 12-48 hours to reply, by which time old mate troll face has already cycled through another 15 accounts. I think my issue with bans is “permanent” bans. It just seems excessive to ban people for the rest of eternity over one or 2 comments with no avenue of appeal. I’ll admit that I’m guilty of this too, I have and will continue to permanently ban people in the future, but if somebody actually comes back and apologises (for some reason extremely rare), I am usually willing to at least hear them out
r/Australia is pretty well known as the place to go to if you want to be in a community where the mods are somehow bigger dicks than the users. r/Melbourne wasn’t that far behind them either imo (present company and the Melb DT excepted, of course)
Look it is what it is. With the API changes and IPO, I feel reddit has been circling the drain. Mods needing to use these bots is a sign of the end times. The new account created isn’t allowed to post anywhere due to age and karma, which’ll put genuine new users off IMO.
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