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View submission: Providing context to banned users
Links are great, right up to the point the user deletes the offending content and pleads innocense.
We have toolbox include a quote for a reason. Unless reddit gives us a permalink to the content that the user can't delete, this is not helpful.
Comment by Mathias_Greyjoy at 24/05/2023 at 23:27 UTC
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Totally agree. I don't know if there are legal issues with Reddit permanently archiving a users content, but it would help a lot.
There needs to be an original copy of whatever was said. It's too easy for users to edit or delete the vitriol they post and make a stink about not doing anything wrong. Archiving and future proofing for potential arguments could save so much trouble.
Reddit should focus on replacing everything mods do outside the site with built-in features. If it archived the original content through the ban function or removal reasons (etc.) somehow, we wouldn't have to do things like quote the nasty content with their username, or screenshot, which I often feel the need to do to shut down trolls and let them know we have their number. Quoting them can also cause issues for our accounts, because Reddit just assumes we're saying those things, not quoting them...