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View submission: Announcing Blocking Updates
Well put. This problem is bigger than just bad actors. A specific user comes to mind who makes a new account every year.
I upvoted their 2021 account over 200 times, they do good writeups and post lots of relevant articles to the subreddits they frequent (which I'd no longer be able to see under the new system making reddit useless to me as a news source), but they're also a zealot that posts a lot of comments that are flat out wrong, completely off-topic, etc... and you see the same handful of users correcting them each time. Under this new system they just start a new account, carry their banlist across and they can talk about all these topics unchecked.
It was already bad enough when their annual account deletion removed all the news stories they posted from being accessed via top posts/searches, if you wanted to look at the top stories from the last year there are now gaping holes in it because of how reddit allows users to take their ball and go home, but this change would mean some people would never even see that news in the first place.
I understand the need for mechanisms to protect users from harassment, but enabling mass harassment and manipulation in order to stop individual cases of harassment is treating the symptom and not the cause. I can't see this being and overall net positive for the most common targets of harassment on this site.
There's nothing here!