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Comment by worstnerd at 27/09/2021 at 19:49 UTC
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Let me start by saying that Ban Evasion is hard (and I probably need to do a deeper dive writeup on this in the coming months…). To answer the question directly, our alt detection models are reviewing all reported ban evading accounts. When account(s) are reported, we suspend ANY connected alts that we see a sign of ban evasion (including the connected accounts that are NOT reported). So if you report 3 accounts for BE, but we are able to see that there are actually 10, we will suspend all 10 accounts.
So often when you get that message that we don’t see any evidence of ban evasion, it doesn’t mean that it is not, it simply means that we don’t have enough evidence on our end (we are constantly refining this to improve our detection ability while maintaining a low false positive rate). That said, oftentimes ban evading accounts are also breaking other rules such as harassment, threats of violence, etc so ensuring that these accounts are banned from your community and reported for abuse will also help to ensure that we have the appropriate signal. We do rely on knowing that the original account was banned from the community in question (some mods will report accounts for ban evasion, but not actually ban the original account).