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Re:Reddit by carrotleads on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @07:49PM (#8392104)
Shouldn't there be a rule that if posts from new accounts get reported by more than X number of people for Y reason they are automatically banned. Would make life of moderators easier. Would be easier if the tools allowed moderators to customize these X values.
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Re:Reddit by richthegeek on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @05:09AM (#8393457)
There's already plenty of instances of bot swarms that mass-downvote new posts, presumably in order to give their own posts greater chance of getting to the frontpage.

If these bots could be used to auto-ban new users then Reddit would die very quickly.

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