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Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by jasonlotito on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @05:32PM (#35794514)
> For context, the parent advocated banning users from an entire subreddit as a sound moderation strategy.

It is. 100% it is. If a subreddit shows that it's users continuously abuse the rules of the site, then yes, 100%, it's a sound moderation strategy. Banning regular users of the subreddit and just flushing it all out is sound.

> If that does nothing to make you reevaluate your opinion, then you are sadly and ironically a victim of divisive indoctrination.

The problem is you are misrepresenting what happened. Reddit didn't just "ban users from an entire subreddit." They didn't just randomly pick a large subreddit and ban all the users. Suggesting that they did that is disingenuous at best. So you can play the victim card all you want, but if you can't be honest about what happened that does nothing to make you reevaluate your opinion, then you are sadly and ironically a victim of divisive indoctrination.

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Re:Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote co... by confoundcofound on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @05:37PM (#35794576)
Never did I claim it was an arbitrary banning. In fact, it indeed was the opposite. I addressed this in a downstream comment.
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