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View submission: Improved ban evasion detection and mitigation
we’ve been able to pull our average ban evasion response time from 29 hours to 4 hours
Hallelujah
I do have four questions though.
1. Is this only for permabans?
2. On /r/politicalhumor, we regularly ban users with inappropriate usernames (usually a homophobic slur or something to do with autism) but we tell them that they have our express permission to ban evade with another username (because they're kids and don't know any better). How do we make sure that these guys don't get snagged by this system? We don't want to permanently remove these users from Reddit if they're only in trouble for a relatively minor infraction and they've been banned before. I also know of other subreddits like /r/anime that ban novelty accounts but welcome people's main accounts.
3. A lot of communities have a "joke ban" system, like on /r/holdup we have a flair that says "Choose this flair to be instantly banned" and then if someone flairs a post with that we give them a one day ban. How do we make sure they aren't flagged by this system? (If this only works with permabans this question does not apply)
4. Can a subreddit opt out entirely? I run /r/modabuse which is a pro mod abuse community and we ban pretty much everyone who posts there. I got one guy to come back on 22 different accounts and if this system is implemented I won't be able to beat my high score.
Comment by worstnerd at 28/05/2020 at 23:45 UTC
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Take a look at my comment here[1] where Im collecting feedback on how we can give mods a bit more control over this.
Comment by dequeued at 29/05/2020 at 02:52 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
2. On /r/politicalhumor, we regularly ban users with inappropriate usernames (usually a homophobic slur or something to do with autism)
At least right now, the better way to handle that is for you to make some sort of offer that would allow you to unban the undesired account while still preventing the undesired account from posting (e.g., an AutoModerator rule). It's always been possible for someone to get caught up by the admins for ban evasion in this manner if your intent is to allow them to participate on another account.
I do like your idea of allowing subreddits to opt out.
Comment by [deleted] at 17/07/2020 at 21:30 UTC
1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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