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.
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.
How would mods get access to that data? I don’t see why Reddit would give away such metrics to volunteers.
What is probably happening is that Reddit is maintaining the database of problematic accounts and letting mods choose which accounts are problematic. From the list of problematic accounts, Reddit could probably pull together a list of problematic IP addresses, especially if the problem is across multiple subs.
So if they’re (what you’re saying) looking to ultimately ban by, what they consider, problematic IPs, and banning them with that assumed problematic IP under the impression that no one can learn from said experience, and they can do that for forever is asinine(this sentence was a hard think for me, so please read carefully). Originally, the only people that could IP ban were admins, which in this current point in time, admins don’t do shit. And that’s because mods got overly precise in their prejudice and big reddit gets far too much money for commercializing.
So in short, devoted neckbands get big confidence in their parents basements, and Steve Huffman keeps getting richer
It is likely more that admins created a system to look for problematic IP addresses and gave mods access to use the admin system by providing user account names and the ability for the admin system to work on different subs.
And this could be useful because mods in some communities would see people try to evade bans in order to harass a community. I wouldn’t be surprised if a system like this was requested by mods even mods weren’t given access to IP addresses.
Lemmy has an equivalent function that has been used here. It is defederation.
But why?
Why what?