• damnYouSun
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    1 year ago

    The whole ban invasion rule never made much sense to me. It’s completely unenforceable, there’s absolutely no way with their platform for them to tell if a user is using a new account to evade a pre-existing ban, so why the hell are they going on about it?

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      1 year ago

      If you’re going through many extra steps to change your online fingerprint, then you’re correct. But there are things they can use to match accounts together. Even a simple IP address combined with behavior from that address can be effective.

      In my limited experience with ban evaders while modding on reddit (on a ~100k subscribers size sub), reddit’s automatic systems do catch some ban evaders. We would sometimes ban a really angry person and later find multiple comments from different accounts in the filtered queue trying to continue their bickering.

    • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      It’s enforced, believe me. Even with a VPN. I think they must use browser and app fingerprint, it isn’t just IP.

      In the end it really seemed like I had been flagged as an undesirable. I’d have what I thought were pretty reasonable discussions at night, and then wake up to another account permabanned. The last couple I didn’t even get a link to the offending content, just a message about being in breach of their content policy in some undefined way.

      I fucking hated that site anyway.