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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by dibujante on Monday September 11, 2017 @04:13PM (#15221868)
That's one of the arguments of the paper - there's some good evidence that a lot (of course not all) of those accounts simply stopped posting.
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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by beedogs on Monday September 11, 2017 @08:13PM (#15223666)
Because you can just create a new account when your old one gets banned from too many places.

Or dozens of new accounts. It's utterly trivial.

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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by dibujante on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @02:51AM (#15225309)
The accounts didn't get banned, though - the subreddits did.
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