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View submission: Moderation Update: New Cross-Posting Rule
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.
Comment by ButImFromEarth at 28/04/2023 at 18:30 UTC
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Replying to myself here but what I'm getting at is, they already have a bot that copies the post from here to there to "preserve" it for prosperity. There's already a bot in use, and banning it won't stop it from working. Banning the problem users, who are the same users who have been attacking people here for *years* is the solution.
I don't see why banfromdb users are being asked to apply for an unbanning, and having to explain themselves to the mods here (when they were banned for participating in a community, not for bad behavior), when this group of people who have been abusive in the past, and continue to be abusive, are still getting the benefit of the doubt.