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Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by 2bitencryption on Thursday April 19, 2018 @01:13PM (#16877727)
I've always been skeptical of this study, mostly because of how fluid reddit accounts are.

I have at least three accounts that I know of (I've probably forgotten about others).

I'm sure people who participate in terrible behavior like that probably also have multiple accounts.

How does the study account for those users simply abandoning the accounts they used for those hateful subreddits? I find it far more likely that they didn't "leave the site entirely", and instead just migrated to their other accounts not associated to the banned subreddit.

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Re:‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the ... by nabc45 on Thursday April 19, 2018 @01:16PM (#16877774)
I only use one account and I’ve been called off multiple times in the “mainstream” subs for posting to the right-wing ones, sometimes when not even talking about politics. I’m sure most people who post to right-wing subs keep two accounts or even more to keep their activity “segregated”.
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