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View submission: Improved ban evasion detection and mitigation
It's difficult to say. I have one case of a user that was banned on multiple accounts from /r/sex four months back. Each of these new accounts was reported (the user had a very specific kink of gigantic women fucking themselves with skyscrapers like sex toys, obsessively posted about it in our forum, and openly attacked the mods in mod mail for banning him). He'd make alts just to attack me personally in meta posts, that sort of thing. The user then created an alt one letter off of my username and sent quite a few fake ban messages to users of our sub - and openly bragged in both PM to me and in general mod mail that he was doing this. We reported this, and the activity stopped for a while.
A couple of days ago, he reappeared with a new mutation of my name, a new rash of fake ban messages to other users, and bragging to me in PM that he was doing it again. So... it's difficult to say that the new measures have been helpful in that case.
We have another user that obsessively posts his pictures to our sub to ask for women to rate him. We have conservatively banned at least two dozen of his accounts, reporting each of them for evasion. He continues to return.
I can think of several others that seem immune to any sort of admin banning efforts.
I know that this is somewhat off topic, but I know that our mod team would be ETERNALLY grateful if we could permanently mute certain trolls from modmail. 72 hours at a time doesn't dissuade some of the really persistent loonies; we have one or two that drop in every few weeks at the most to troll us for the fun of it, and have done so for well over a year.
There's nothing here!