• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Mods on Reddit giving a crap about bots?

    In my experience they are more likely to shadow ban those who complain about bots than to do anything about obvious bots.

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      8 months ago

      I got permanently banned for reporting spam (“abusing the report button”) after I reported 8 Vice articles posted in /r/politics by the Vice self-promotion account in one day.

      Meanwhile, the spam guidelines page says - if you create an account primarily to promote your own content, you may be a spammer. And as a redditor, you should report spam.

      They lost a 12 year long user who primarily engaged in niche technical subjects who went out of their way to answer newcomers’ questions.