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View submission: Moderation Update: New Cross-Posting Rule
Why do you think the hypothetical bot could not be banned? Do bots have more privileges than regular users?
Comment by ButImFromEarth at 28/04/2023 at 16:13 UTC
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I'm not sure if banning a bot prevents it from cross posting, but it doesn't prevent it from looking at this subreddit. So it can still copy/paste the entire text of a post and put it on their own subreddit, along with a convenient link for brigading.
Banning only affects users and bots that want to post *here*. But all the nasty stuff is happening on the other community, using an automated bot would still allow these people to keep posting here while attacking others in their own subreddit.
Essentially, bots have nothing to lose.