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Reddit will ban you if they detect that you are using multiple accounts, especially if you get banned from a sub. Just changing IP and create a new account does

Reddit will ban you if they detect that you are using multiple accounts, especially if you get banned from a sub. Just changing IP and create a new account doesn't necessarily work. Neither does just changing browsers, you have to go an extra step and change the fonts you have on your computer because they obviously use the font list for fingerprinting. And also block WebGL for reddit domain. All that effort isn't worth it IMHO for a site that has a very bizarre policy as what content or speech they find acceptable and what they don't. There is a few good subs yes, personally I can't support a website where its admins let the website be moderated by very questionable individuals, sex offenders when there are minors on their websites, and let these mods manipulate people with mental issues and autists into delusion and nonsense.

yoz-y 5y ago
> Reddit will ban you if they detect that you are using multiple accounts, What? Their official client literally supports multiple accounts.
- manicdee 5y ago
  Once you get banned from a subreddit, using those multiple accounts becomes “ban evasion”. Permanent ban from all of Reddit will follow quickly after.
- josephcsible 5y ago
  If one of your accounts gets banned from a subreddit, even for a stupid reason like "because we don't like a certain other subreddit, and you commented there once", or "because we're /r/ThanosDidNothingWrong and decided to randomly ban 50% of all accounts just for fun", if you ever visit that subreddit with another account, then Reddit permanently site-bans all of your accounts.
  - yoz-y 5y ago
    Good to know. Is there any way to ban yourself or do you need to keep a list.
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dimensi0nal 5y ago
>let these mods manipulate people with mental issues and autists into delusion and nonsense Subtle.
beebmam 5y ago
Do you think platform companies, like reddit, should be legally able to shape (create, remove, modify) content that is on their platforms at will?
- CSMastermind 5y ago
  Not the person you were asking but I'd chime in with my opinion: We should set up a system by which these platforms have a choice. Either they are responsible for the content posted on their sites similar to a news organization and they enjoy the right to fully editorialize (create, remove, modify) the content on their sites. OR They are classified as providers and similar to ISPs they are not responsible for the content on their sites but they're also not free to modify it except under order from a court. Give the sites the ability to choose how they are classified but once they pick they can't switch between the statuses. Then let the natural experiment play out and let's see what happens.
  - VLM 5y ago
    There are also side effects WRT federal election and fundraising laws. Generally the wheels of justice grind very slowly, but grind very finely, and do not tolerate attempts at "hacking" the justice system by just putting a e- prefix on something. For some real world examples, there's no federal election law problem with my local bar giving away free beer during happy hour, and there's no federal election law problem with the local bar banning people from the premises for almost any reason including political beliefs. But they would get into HUGE federal election law trouble if they hacked the anti-bribery rules by pretending that giving away free beer to anyone displaying a vote-by-mail ballot to encourage participation in the voting process, and simultaneously banning from the premises anyone who voted for the "wrong" party, and then pretending that those are isolated activities that do not have a common effect of essentially bribing people with free beer if they vote the correct way. There are also information dissemination legal issues. Like everyone else (probably?) my official election polling site is defined by a postcard from the municipal treasurer's clerk's office. That was delivered by the supposedly non-partisan USPS. In theory I could be deprived of my right to vote by the clerk deciding to deliver voting location postcards by Fedex and an activist stock owner's group pressuring Fedex into refusing to deliver to people whom historically voted in the "wrong" parties primary. There's no law that Fedex must accept all commerce regardless of political affiliation, but the courts would take a pretty dim view of Fedex implementing voter suppression as a secondary effect. A problem that's already appeared on Reddit in a big way, is assumptions about group membership. A real world analogy is about 80% of primary voters where I live are faithful and vote for the same party in the general and primary election and about 20% of voters are unfaithful and vote for different parties in the primary and the general. Primary voting party is public knowledge where I live. So its public knowledge that there's a roughly 40% chance I voted for Hillary in 2016 and a 60% chance I voted for Bernie, and in theory people could use that knowledge against me. In theory its secret whom I voted for in the general, but lets just say it was mathematically very likely it was someone else. Anyway on Reddit its double plus un good think to participate in any way with known religious heretics and that will get you banned, even if you don't agree with them. And if Reddit is ever determined by a court to be operating under federal election law regulations, they will end up in BIG trouble for voter suppression and bribery. All these situations are a pretty big problem to "groupthink" style social media sites that ban all members of one party vs the other.
bliteben 5y ago
kind of insane for a site that used to and still somewhat encourages you to have multiple accounts.
nopenopenopeno 5y ago
> personally I can't support a website where its admins let the website be moderated by very questionable individuals, sex offenders when there are minors on their websites Is there any other social media website where you can even pseudonymously track who is moderating? Besides independent forums, Reddit is the only one I know of where it’s even possible to evaluate the individuals moderating to any degree.
mcphage 5y ago
> Reddit will ban you if they detect that you are using multiple accounts I don't think this is true. There are some subs which encourage if not require you to post via a throwaway account.
vehemenz 5y ago
> because they obviously use the font list for fingerprinting. And also block WebGL for reddit domain. At this point, there are hundreds of fingerprinting techniques they could be using.

yoz-y 5y ago

> Reddit will ban you if they detect that you are using multiple accounts, What? Their official client literally supports multiple accounts.

manicdee 5y ago
Once you get banned from a subreddit, using those multiple accounts becomes “ban evasion”. Permanent ban from all of Reddit will follow quickly after.
josephcsible 5y ago
If one of your accounts gets banned from a subreddit, even for a stupid reason like "because we don't like a certain other subreddit, and you commented there once", or "because we're /r/ThanosDidNothingWrong and decided to randomly ban 50% of all accounts just for fun", if you ever visit that subreddit with another account, then Reddit permanently site-bans all of your accounts.
- yoz-y 5y ago
  Good to know. Is there any way to ban yourself or do you need to keep a list.

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dimensi0nal 5y ago

>let these mods manipulate people with mental issues and autists into delusion and nonsense Subtle.

beebmam 5y ago

Do you think platform companies, like reddit, should be legally able to shape (create, remove, modify) content that is on their platforms at will?

CSMastermind 5y ago
Not the person you were asking but I'd chime in with my opinion: We should set up a system by which these platforms have a choice. Either they are responsible for the content posted on their sites similar to a news organization and they enjoy the right to fully editorialize (create, remove, modify) the content on their sites. OR They are classified as providers and similar to ISPs they are not responsible for the content on their sites but they're also not free to modify it except under order from a court. Give the sites the ability to choose how they are classified but once they pick they can't switch between the statuses. Then let the natural experiment play out and let's see what happens.
- VLM 5y ago
  There are also side effects WRT federal election and fundraising laws. Generally the wheels of justice grind very slowly, but grind very finely, and do not tolerate attempts at "hacking" the justice system by just putting a e- prefix on something. For some real world examples, there's no federal election law problem with my local bar giving away free beer during happy hour, and there's no federal election law problem with the local bar banning people from the premises for almost any reason including political beliefs. But they would get into HUGE federal election law trouble if they hacked the anti-bribery rules by pretending that giving away free beer to anyone displaying a vote-by-mail ballot to encourage participation in the voting process, and simultaneously banning from the premises anyone who voted for the "wrong" party, and then pretending that those are isolated activities that do not have a common effect of essentially bribing people with free beer if they vote the correct way. There are also information dissemination legal issues. Like everyone else (probably?) my official election polling site is defined by a postcard from the municipal treasurer's clerk's office. That was delivered by the supposedly non-partisan USPS. In theory I could be deprived of my right to vote by the clerk deciding to deliver voting location postcards by Fedex and an activist stock owner's group pressuring Fedex into refusing to deliver to people whom historically voted in the "wrong" parties primary. There's no law that Fedex must accept all commerce regardless of political affiliation, but the courts would take a pretty dim view of Fedex implementing voter suppression as a secondary effect. A problem that's already appeared on Reddit in a big way, is assumptions about group membership. A real world analogy is about 80% of primary voters where I live are faithful and vote for the same party in the general and primary election and about 20% of voters are unfaithful and vote for different parties in the primary and the general. Primary voting party is public knowledge where I live. So its public knowledge that there's a roughly 40% chance I voted for Hillary in 2016 and a 60% chance I voted for Bernie, and in theory people could use that knowledge against me. In theory its secret whom I voted for in the general, but lets just say it was mathematically very likely it was someone else. Anyway on Reddit its double plus un good think to participate in any way with known religious heretics and that will get you banned, even if you don't agree with them. And if Reddit is ever determined by a court to be operating under federal election law regulations, they will end up in BIG trouble for voter suppression and bribery. All these situations are a pretty big problem to "groupthink" style social media sites that ban all members of one party vs the other.

bliteben 5y ago

kind of insane for a site that used to and still somewhat encourages you to have multiple accounts.

nopenopenopeno 5y ago

> personally I can't support a website where its admins let the website be moderated by very questionable individuals, sex offenders when there are minors on their websites Is there any other social media website where you can even pseudonymously track who is moderating? Besides independent forums, Reddit is the only one I know of where it’s even possible to evaluate the individuals moderating to any degree.

mcphage 5y ago

> Reddit will ban you if they detect that you are using multiple accounts I don't think this is true. There are some subs which encourage if not require you to post via a throwaway account.

vehemenz 5y ago

> because they obviously use the font list for fingerprinting. And also block WebGL for reddit domain. At this point, there are hundreds of fingerprinting techniques they could be using.