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I got banned, for evading a ban. (I didn't know I was banned, was just using one of my 3 alts for different hobbies and made a comment, instantly banned all 3, no appeals)
thats what happen to alot of people. if you had a old ban, and you commented in a newer sub like years later, the recent purges just look at all your accounts that ever participated in it,(for example something you were ban in r/tech, r/news and you had old accounts that visited those subs but not ban, they were going after that too) and ban all of them. they never did this unless you were a serial ban evader. the theory goes around is that they want a read only site, people will just doom scroll on ads and propaganda all day.
Oh man…awhile back that happened to me: I complained to a mod in PM about racist posts in their sub - on my desktop account…then used the app on my smartphone because I wasn’t at home. It was different accounts because I’d forgotten my password at some point…but I didn’t actually care which account was what - I never cared about Karma and didn’t differentiate between them.
Little did I know the petty mod had given me a one-day ban for “harassment”…and both accounts got banned for “evading”. Back then Reddit admins weren’t swamped (I guess?) and the ban was overturned right away.
I think if that happened today it would have been an automatic autoban. It really feels like a set up. Why are they letting you have multiple accounts if they associate them with one person? What it feels like is Reddit given scammers tools that end up fucking over normal people.
Yep, if this is an issue, and they don't want alts, why can you swap and login to multiple accounts in the app. They made it very easy and convenient to do lol.
Yeah. The way it seems to function is Reddit itself has automated moderating…and the mods have almost absolute control over their own subs. Reddit itself doesn’t check for ban evasion…unless a mod requests it….so the sub mods have another layer of moderation that activates additional automated moderation. The very obvious problem with this is that too many mods are petty little dictators and know how to exploit the automated moderation system: ie there’s nothing preventing mods from taking note that a person uses two accounts, ban the account that person is not using when they want to prep for a site ban - then trigger the autoban to get rid of a user. The bans some subs give out are always horribly uneven…and now I see why. I’ve seen this scenario play out several times due to ideology or personal grudges, rather than the breaking of Reddit rules.
Short story long…”ban evasion” appears to be a gift given to sub mods to use at their pleasure.
If you are banned from a sub they leave traps I guess? Instead of not showing me the sub on my front page or not letting me comment, they leave it up to catch people "evading bans."
That’s really what it feels like. Like…they have all this technology that associates multiple accounts with one person…but they don’t give you heads up even if they know damn well you’re the same person.
There must be some function of alternate accounts that benefits Reddit in some way.
Publicfreakout btw, no idea how I got banned from there, was just commenting on the front page to get karma up on the alt for my blender stuff with my content creator name.