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View submission: Announcing Mod Notes
(Also I thought we weren't supposed to BOT_BAN users)
Never heard of this rule
Comment by Bardfinn at 07/03/2022 at 19:32 UTC
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The Toolbox "Bot Ban" label is for when someone is banning an inappropriate bot account from a subreddit - because the account doesn't have to have broken a specific subreddit or sitewide rule, but is just... quoting shakespeare to people who accidentally compose in iambic pentameter, for example.
The "other" "bot ban" being referenced is a practice of running a bot in one subreddit to ban from that subreddit the participants of another subreddit. It was a necessity when Reddit had no functional definition of, nor way to track or enforce, a rule against Community Interference (or even a rule against hate speech); Communities handled Community Interference themselves by making every participant in one subreddit *persona non grata* in another subreddit.
It was not sophisticated but it was necessary.