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Re:Reddit bans ‘SFW’ deepfake community by duxup on Monday June 13, 2022 @12:16PM (#31727570)
I’ve seen folks try that.

Didn’t work.

Another “politically oriented sub” had users who got pissed that they were banned for spamming a sub that I frequented.

They made new accounts (they did that a lot…) and posted a couple normal posts in our sub and then again spammed but this time pretending to be organizing a brigade vs … their sub.

Admins didn’t act when they complained because it was all pretty obvious and we moderated the brigade posts.

In my experience it’s not just “hey there are a few posts” that triggers these kinds of actions.

Re:Reddit bans ‘SFW’ deepfake community by wronglyprepaid on Monday June 13, 2022 @12:55PM (#31728181)
> I’ve seen folks try that.

Okay, but this goes back to the condition:

> If they enforced the rules consistently

Which reddit does not - and you are right:

> it’s not just “hey there are a few posts” that triggers these kinds of actions.

There is an agenda, and then motivated reasoning to find justification for the agenda.

Re:Reddit bans ‘SFW’ deepfake community by duxup on Monday June 13, 2022 @01:04PM (#31728316)
What I described wasn’t an “agenda” it was just recognizing that the local moderators were acting and the content wasn’t actually from the local users.

That’s just common sense.