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View submission: Improved ban evasion detection and mitigation
What types of edge cases do you think we should be thinking about here?
The users that come into modmail bragging about evading a ban or promising to evade the current ban. There's a pervasive mindset that anyone that even tries a little bit can evade a ban, and given that number of repeat trolls we've had come back dozens and dozens of times (or in some cases hundreds) it's hard to say they're wrong.
We get easily a dozen of these a day in modmail (often with insults mixed in) and with some 20,0000+ comments a day we just have no realistic way to link the every day ban evasion accounts together.
Past responses from admins in modsupport on reporting ban evasion with only a single account have made it seem like nothing is done with these and they just get put in a garbage can that is a special filing cabinet[1].
1: https://scatteredquotes.com/garbage-can-special-filing-cabinet/
So mainly I guess just some clarity on this would be helpful. Normally I only bother reporting the ones that are paired with a higher priority report reason (which does involve many of these cases, because ban evaders love to insult). Do these reports trigger any of your systems or lead to anything at all being investigated?
There's nothing here!