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Re:Over twenty subreddits have gone private by sergiotapia on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:52AM (#26568817)
Why would reddit hire this kind of person and then _PROTECT_ and _HIDE_ this decision. Strange.
Re:Over twenty subreddits have gone private by giancarlostoro on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @12:02PM (#26568966)
I've heard over the last 12 hours that just saying their name on reddit gets you banned. I've seen some posts with the name on them on reddit, so I'm not sure if that happened beforehand. They spun it as doxing, but this person was a politician and the subreddit that got targetted by them was political in nature. They also then blamed it on auto bots but their name was in an article in an instance, I doubt reddit bots are that thorough as to scrape through linked articles.
Re:Over twenty subreddits have gone private by lamontcg on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @12:56PM (#26569856)
> I doubt reddit bots are that thorough as to scrape through linked articles.

I'll bet they are. The tactic of getting someone to make a coordinated blog post and then spamming it everywhere on reddit under the cover of "its public information now" is obvious. I'm reasonably certain that has happened to some other reddit employee in the past. That part is entirely believable.