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Comment on Daily discussion thread: 🎆 Saturday, May 11, 2024

My reddit accounts got caught up in r/australia’s ban evasion AI nonsense and I got mega banned, no more helpful comments for people bad at google I guess. I liked being helpful there. It’ll give me more time to be helpful elsewhere I guess.

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CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m sorry but why were you mega banned? Explain like I’m stewpid.

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- dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  What I think happened:
  
  First account banned 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, bots go into ban evasion mode, accounts get permanently suspended.
  
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  - Baku@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    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
    
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    dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    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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  - CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh
    
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TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You’ve described my relationship with carsaustralia perfectly. Just with a bit of added snark towards Mazda diesels.

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