You asked a straight-forward question and got irrelevant responses you didn’t ask for based on their own priorities… As they’re browsing a Reddit community… on Lemmy. Weirdman. There are other reasons to be on Reddit, obviously, and you can simultaneously grow this community while having a foot there as well.

To answer your question: To my knowledge, Reddit uses a mixture of IP banning, Web Browser fingerprinting, and behavioral analysis (e.g., which subs you frequent, upvote, etc.). I think the IP ban only lasts so long — some things I’ve read after 100 days (except original registration IP)? After all, IPs are not often static for an individual or may be a gateway for many users. Which is why they associate an IP with a web browser fingerprint. They not only pull the cookies, but additional info independent of cookies about the browser used but other information like your computer monitor setup are utilized.

TOR browser used to work, but Reddit changed their log-in page and its CAPTCHA requirements fuck with its log-in.

VPN + Incognito alternative browser from what you traditionally use, or if you really want to get fancy, a VM instance. DO NOT use your phone that was linked to your banned account either to log on. Alternatively you may be able to request a new IP from your ISP? You basically have to come up with a scenario that gives a plausible scenario that you are a different user than the other person who was banned.

Holy hell how much plastic did Huffman invest to look like a dollar general bond villain.

lol gtfo bootlicking simp. You exemplify why Trump said he loves the poorly educated, bud.

Honestly? If I had it my way, there would be a DEFCON 5 Alert across every single subreddit in solidarity with the literal fucking crisis that is happening right now. This extends well beyond how much I care about some subreddit and how randomized the platter of pics are. At the end of the day, you can’t “force” generality in a sub with loose rules on submissions; hell I think they even allow people to filter them as they’re tagged as political to begin with.

Nah r/pics is pics and pics of anything are permitted there.

Naturally it represents the zeitgeist and what is on the collection of people’s minds who frequent that sub will determine the content.

Beggars can’t be choosers. If you want more specific rules, then find more niche subs. Simple as that.

Alternatively, don’t shove fascists down our throats and this wouldn’t happen.

I’ve noticed:

• r/news and r/worldnews hijacked by conservative zionist mods.

• r/pics locking many political anti-maga comment threads with hardly anything there and never an explanation for transparency.

• r/conservative feels like it’s being artificially amplified.

You do you. A lot of people here are probably bullshitting themselves; and honestly, leaving will only exacerbate the problem of media silos. They want to take over Reddit and turn it into another X when there it still has a massive Anti-Trump presence, evidently by this sub getting temp-banned.

All that means is the left is primarily the populous option

Does it? This is in fact just as speculative; after all, it could also mean that the left is primarily the more logically-accurate sample. Alternatively it could mean the data sets from linguistics and critical-thinking books are inherently antithetical to the “poorly educated” conservatives (Trump’s words, not mine). Besides, I venture a guess that if this data is pulled from the vastness of the internet that includes the likes of 4chan, facebook, breitbart, fox news, and so on… Then I’m going to take a wild guess and say that the conservative sets are pretty well represented.

Not that they’re perfect, but yes, it all depends on the data sets through which they’re evaluated. Nevertheless, logic is logic and one of the easier things to parse for these machine-learning tools. Imperfect though they may, if they can code a Python application, then they can recognize that 2 + 2 != 5 just the same within linguistics.

Not the end-all solution, of course, but merely a diagnostic utility in the toolbox to help thwart fallacious thinking and gaslighting. This Software Engineer shall continue to use it absent of a better argument, thank you very much.

I’ve been using AI as a utility to analyze discussions with other users and to determine who has the objectively better argument. I have it compare fallacies used in both quantity and severity.

Particularly with Trump supporters it’s no surprise the ratio is usually 3 or 4:1.

It could be used in this context against AI, too, because the directive isn’t to persuade but to analyze logic.

No idea. They hid behind anonymity of the ModTeam account.

Worldnews deteriorated as well.

Frankly all subs took a major dive following the controversial API change. A lot of seasoned mods with a moral backbone left and yes-men puppets replaced them.

r/news has the worst moderators on reddit by far. Like I seriously suspect they’re children.

Was banned for calling out atrocities by Israel. And this was long before October 7th. The way they responded in DM made them sound like I was arguing with a 14-year-old.

If you ever want to observe or engage (be ready for the pile-up) with these same folks, r/ShitPoliticsSays contains the exact same user-base of extremists. These are dyed-in-the-wool folks because they use this as a launching-point for brigading other subs comment threads. Lots of Canadian righties there, too. The only credit I’ll give is unlike r/conservative that they never censored so you could pretty much discuss and test argumentative points to your heart’s content.

Just read the thread covering this very article about T_D lol

Of course I still think a sizable chunk of these folks operate in discord channels and astroturfed Sanders subs (especially the 2020 election), ChapoTrapHouse, etc.

Imagine being them, subbed to a “Reddit” community on Lemmy, complaining about people who use reddit…

They’re not exactly deep thinkers.

I miss Aaron Swartz. Spez is so greedy and incompetent.

Also many of the mods on default subs, not all, are literal teenagers lacking a modicum of reason or maturity I swear. Not the brightest bulbs.

Right. Unless you’re a complete power-user whose entire life revolves around reddit, even the it’s a massive risk akin to saying, “I’m going to go start a successful YouTube channel!” (which would still be a better venture).

Of the three people involved in Reddit’s creation, he was the most useless and antithetical to reddit’s greater vision.

Swartz was a far better person.

After 10 years, approaching a million comment karma, and many sourced write-ups and copy pastas I got a fair amount. Probably 200 of a mixture of gold and the occasional platinum. This was concentrated in later years as I better understood reddit, and understood specific audiences more. I strove to give genuinely good information, too.

Unfortunately reddit’s admins are lazy, suck, and some subs’ moderators even worse (looking at r/news) and they screwed me. Their loss. I’ll find another platform to publish content, like here of course and elsewhere.

They completely ignored my appeal. 0 response. Later that wrongful suspension was used to justify a permanent suspension.

I loved Reddit, until executives took a nosedive and their admins screwed my account over with a blatantly false suspension.

Swartz would be appalled at what Huffman has done.

Honestly, this blows. WordPad fills a niche between a full blown text editor and notepad. Most of my random daily notes use WordPad still when not OneNote.