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#redditmigration #reddit One of my friends is a mod of a very large subreddit that went private for the blackout. Last night she received a message saying that she had been stripped of her moderator rights and the subreddit was taken public again. To be very clear, the subreddit members had specifically voted in favor of going private. It seems like reddit will stoop lower and lower to try and break the blackout. I’m seething.
Moderators are not just having their account banned, they are having their IP and email addresses scanned by the admin team to permaban them for life.
Proof? As this seems unlikely. Aren’t email addresses optional?
Proof would be good but honestly this seems pretty likely. Power users like mods are going to want the account recoverability so they’re mostly going to be using authenticated accounts tied to real emails. And reddit sure isn’t going to want them coming back to stir up their users. If I were reddit trying to double down this is absolutely a step I’d take.
Proof would be good but honestly this seems pretty likely.
Not proof of anything related to the blackout and retaliation…
But Reddit absolutely does have an account linking backend they rely on. When my main account was permanently suspended (for quoting what a cop said to me in a private subreddit in a cop thread, was banned for “hateful content.”)… they went back through my linked accounts and banned them for whatever reason they could find. Included was one account that used a different email address. Had multiple accounts only because I was using it them to segregate my topics before multireddits existed. One for politics, one for tech news, one for popular subs, etc… The one with the different email address was my politics account and they banned it for visiting a sub I was timed out from by moderators. Over a year prior.
Reddit is completely capable of being thorough (though capricious) in their attempts of policing users.
There are probably companies who specialize into fingerprinting and who will provide a module for reddit admins. Even the resolution of your screen or the firefox extensions you use can betray you.
