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View submission: Reddit Security Report -- February 26, 2019
If you have suspected Ban evaders you should report them here[1]. I will say that simply threatening to ban evade is not against policy (and in many cases may just be trolling), but you should still feel free to report it.
1: https://www.reddit.com/report?reason=its-ban-evasion
Ultimately the goal here is to make it so that mods don’t have to report ban evasion directly (since it is inherently difficult to detect), but rather to look at the actions taken by mods and see if the activity is tied to potential ban evasion.
Comment by MajorParadox at 26/02/2020 at 19:22 UTC
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I will say that simply threatening to ban evade is not against policy (and in many cases may just be trolling), but you should still feel free to report it.
I think that left much confusion last time it was stated. Like, does "feel free to report it" mean "go ahead and do it if it makes you feel better, but it's not against policy so we'll ignore it."
I think the ask here is sometimes it's quite clear they will attempt it. And even if not, we're not in a position to know unless we connect the dots with another toxic user. (At some point that becomes exhausting when you're dealing with hundreds of bans of users all acting the same).
So, if there is going to be some built-in way of Reddit dealing with it automatically, wouldn't knowing that they said they were going to do it help detect it?
Comment by tehForce at 26/02/2020 at 22:07 UTC*
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There is a person who constantly ban evades as well as harasses through alts.
I provide reports to the admins in every cases as well as long list of previous alts. I am talking about over 20 alts permanently suspended in a year. BTW, I would present that list of alt accounts here, in the open, but apparently the admins consider presenting such lists as harassment, even though they are permanently suspended accounts.
The person's alt is eventually banned for behavior but this only happens after weeks and in some cases months of this person evading bans, engaging in vote manipulation, and harassing other users.
This user regularly uses specific subs that promote such behavior and are run by mods who consistently reject the notion that their users participate in such behavior.
The numbers presented above are impressive at face value but what are you doing to prevent these people from constantly repeating their behavior and speeding up your response to the reports?
Edit: well, I guess that I won't get a reply but I can say that the latest alt of this user has been permanently suspended so kudos on acting fast this time.
Comment by [deleted] at 27/02/2020 at 01:23 UTC
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What reasonable action can you take against ban evaders?
Most people don't place a significant weight on their reddit accounts. So even if you catch them ban-evading (I assume through their IP address) and suspend their accounts you've done very little to actually stop them. All they need to do is reset their IP, make a new account, and they can be back at it in 5 minutes and you'll have no idea.
Granted this problem isn't exclusive to reddit but is there a real solution to this problem?
Comment by WoozleWuzzle at 26/02/2020 at 21:22 UTC
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Thank you much appreciated to where to report them.
And, that ultimate goal sounds very nice so we don't have to manually report ban evaders. As you know it's hard for us to even know. We can suspect it by their comment behavior and it being a new account, but we really never know. So anything you do on your end to automate it so we don't have to worry is VERY much appreciated and will make our lives easier.