10mo ago

Reddit mods now just default to IP bans

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So I've discovered recently that instead the moderators and admins doing their due diligence, they'll just ban your IP. I can't wait for this to blow up in their face.

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Maybe you meant Reddit admins?
Reddit moderators don't have access to IP addresses nor have the ability to ban someone based on an IP address.
- From the linked discussion it looks like there's a new feature rolling out where mods can activate "automatic ban evasion protection" during a ban. Mods don't get given any additional info about the user but it gets set up automatically on the back end.
  
  From the linked discussion it looks like there’s a new feature rolling out where mods can activate “automatic ban evasion protection” during a ban
  It is just a subreddit setting https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/wrnnvb/piloting_a_new_ban_evasion_tool
  It isn't something a subreddit moderator can use to ban OP's specific IP in the subreddit let alone sitewide Reddit. (OP did not say if they are talking about a subreddit specifically, or if they were banned sitewide)
  In fact it's just that random person posting a year ago calling it a "IP ban", the Reddit admins never explained how that subreddit setting works. I'm guessing it's using some sort of algorithm to calculate the likelihood of ban evasion e.g repeated post links / new/unused account / maybe the usage of VPN / Tor IP, that sort of thing. Reddit admins do already sitewide auto-ban accounts spamming links that were already reported and banned prior.
  
  That would have been helpful for me back when I gave a shit about reddit.
- From what I found, that's no longer true. A year ago they were piloting a sub IP ban and an that an IP ban is pretty damning site wide
That will be fun for VPN users
- In before VPNs get labeled as against their TOS
  
  Already can't use a VPN with reddit, so...
- They're terrified of the tech savvy user, and that's funny to me
- As well as anyone using public wifi
  
  As well as people under CGNAT or, as in my case, under ISPs who lease different addresses twice every week.
- especially where Reddit are banned in some countries like China and Indonesia
- VPNs have already been banned for quite some time.
- They've been temp banning various VPN IPs for a few years now, giving you a network error when you try to access reddit through the browser from a flagged IP. Although it's been fine for the last couple weeks or so, but that might just be luck or the lack of me trying.
- They could just block VPNs but how about a house/apartment with multiple reddit users? Coffee shops? Libraries? Offices?
  This seems like it would come with a shitload of practical drawbacks, never mind the capricious nature of reddit bans in the first place.
  Their ban reporting is straight up broken and regularly abused by botnets, this will make that problem even worse.
My IP which is constantly changing? The one that I can change at will to anywhere on the planet? Oh no!
Oh wait, I don't use reddit so I care even less.
- https://lemm.ee/comment/14334883 I'll leave the final judgement up to you. Were you trying criticize my post or reddit's standards
- A wise man has something to say while a fool has to say something lol. While i appreciate your right to comment. It's kind of unnecessary
  
  Why are you so rude? They agree with you and gave an example of how it could "blow up in their faces" (as you put it) and then you came back with a snippy remark
  
  Is this satire? It has to be, right? Considering your comment is entirely unnecessary?
  
  The wise and mighty FartsWithAnAccent has spoken.
I got all my accounts banned and my IP banned so I can't go there if I wanted. Which is great! Now I haven't created a pro LGBTQA forum on here so I have time to do other things around the house. If you like your reddit just be more Nazi. They like that.
I’m under the impression the ban by device ID. As the Reddit app states they get that data on the App Store.
Did you even read the year old thread?
- Does it make you feel better if I said skimmed?

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