Does Reddit possibly falsely accuse unwanted users of “ban evasion” to have an easy excuse to get rid of them? - shower thought

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They actually do - I trolled the shit out of Reddit and Serena Williams and now the ban anyone that uses 3 mobile 4G internet as they all have the same IP address as me topkek.

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Users may be able to fool Reddit administration into suspending users on close IP addresses.

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Does the IP ban only affect account creations or also site reading access?

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Neither. You can create accounts and read as usual, but the admins keep a shitlist of IP addresses and they get flagged as soon as a new account is made.

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I'm sure they could. Especially since ban evasion would presumably be detected by automated processes, they could perform a mass ban and just say "we found a problem in our ban evasion algorithm and fixed it. Now all the Russian bots are gone."

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They have been using all kinds of tricks, like "accidental" shadowbans. The only reason they are not more heavyhanded with their censorship is that more people will start using the alternatives.

I believe that closer to the election days we will witness another massive purge of subs and users.

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Putting words into user's mouths, which means making them appear like they wrote something they never actually did, especially on sensitive posts, is one of the greatest violations of user trust possible.

Although shortly after he applogized and promised never to do it again, it clearly gives away how Reddit tends to handle criticism.

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