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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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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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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