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Reddit improved their anti-ban evasion system, cuz it's the sixth or more failed attempt at evading a permanent ban. Never more, I am staying here.
FUCK YOU, SPEZ!
In a lot of cases, yes. Not in all of them, due to bot-based bans.
It'd be a real shame if fascists were abusing the harassment report on anyone that disagrees with them.
Kind of funny that you mentioned fascists - my first permaban there was from telling Nazist to shoot himself like Hitler did. (10/10 experience, would get banned again.)
On-topic: I believe that abuse of the report function to get people banned is already a reality there for years. Not just from fascists; the typical Reddit user is petty, and I do think that the so-called voting brigades also abuse the report function.
I don't even blame it for the ban itself, to be honest. The person in question was trash, but it's simply easier to enforce a rule like "don't goad suicide" than one like "don't goad suicide, unless the person in question is a piece of shit", and the later opens some awkward precedents. I do blame it for 1) the gaslighting in the ban message ("multiple violations" my arse, it was one violation) and 2) banning 3/4 of my accounts - and the exception being the acc that I used for mod duties ("keep working for free, sucker").
One of my accounts was permabanned because a fascist spammer who ran some "anti-fascist" branded political spam subs kept reporting me for harassment when I linked to their own content in other subs, and I got bored of constantly appealing. Also reddit got rid of all their big subreddits and main accounts eventually. They're still on the site 24/7/365 on dozens of alts but they have a small audience now.
They were a semi-known personality on the site and had basically been banned from any sub they claimed to be politically aligned with, for self-promotion, being an asshole, etc. Had dozens of alts permabanned by reddit admins as well. Basically they had alts/personas that catered to different political views, like red pill content, liberal content, anti-fascist content, fascist pro-police content. They'd have alts with bios like "I'm a trans woman!" and "Go Zelenskyy! Slava Ukraine!" for whatever content they wanted to market to or identities they wanted to speak on behalf of. Oh and this was for profit, they had links to shitty self-published books and those websites where you can upload your designs, they sold shitty NFTs and comics. If you went to their book links there'd be 5 star reviews from people who only reviewed their books and suspicious stuff like that. The book's publisher would have books with different pseudonyms of his name, books about how men are only nice to women for sex, next to a book about being liberal, etc. It was like generated spam targeted towards all sorts of trending political topics.