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View submission: Reddit Security Report -- February 26, 2019
Ban evasion is a constant thorn in the side of admins, mods, and users (ban evasion is a common tactic to abuse members of a subreddit). Ban evasion is when a person creates a new account to bypass site or community bans. Recently we overhauled how we handle ban evasion on the platform with our own admin-level ban evasion detection and enforcement, and we are super excited about the results. After a sufficient testing period, we have started to roll this out to subreddit level ban evasion, starting with mod reported ban evasion. As a result this month, we’ve actioned more than 6K accounts, reduced time to action (from report time) by a factor of 10 , and achieved a 90% increase in the number of accounts actioned.
Are site-wide suspended users allowed to return with alts? I have this issue where a known spammer is still posting spam links on my subreddits despite getting their alts suspended by admin several times (including 4-5 counts of ban evasion). And by several I mean more than 10 suspended accounts. It is a nuisance that you have to configure automod in advance just to filter their bs.
Comment by worstnerd at 26/02/2020 at 19:38 UTC
12 upvotes, 5 direct replies
Correct, once a user is permanently suspended from the site they are not allowed come back via alts. This has been the effort that we have been focusing on over the last several months. That does not necessarily mean that we catch them all in real time, but we are steadily making this harder for people trying to evade our efforts.
Unfortunately, spammers are constantly looking for ways to evade our detection, so this is a fairly never ending battle (woo hoo, job security)