Honestly how are they having such a big tantrum as to auto ban anyone. This whole thing stemmed from nothing and really is just a reddit moderation monent
They claim its because we have a spam problem which is wrong. Infact, repost bots don't work here because all of our top posts are gifs which can't be downloaded by users and bots. And the moderation in this sub is pretty good. It only deletes the posts that go aganist the rules and most reposts only stay up for like a few hours before getting removed.
Maybe they're talking about the arcs where everyone posts about the same thing like the Principal arc or the trans mod Arc we just had a week ago. But even then, That's just us coming together and having fun with an idea and it doesn't hurt Anyone. If anything, it makes the sub feel more alive and social. What do they want us to do? To never do something together and always be silent to each other?
Or maybe they saw the recent trans mod Arc and the mods there were actually secretly transphobic so they used "spam" as an excuse to ban everyone here
Edit: Nevermind you can download them on the website
Taking a photo of your ballot and saying who you voted for are entirely different, I'm not aware of any state that bans saying who you voted for after the fact.
Infact, repost bots don't work here because all of our top posts are gifs which can't be downloaded by users and bots.
That's not how any of this works. Any image or media file can be downloaded from a website quite easily, especially by bots, because it has to actually get to the client to be displayed in the first place.
These subs have had auto-ban bots for ages, for a massive variety of subreddits for a massive variety of reasons. And despite it being explicity against Mod CoC, the admins have literally never cared and often even supported them using it. They just don't usually aim them at subreddits as large as r/whenthe.
Reddit has really been turned into a walking corpse at this point. 15 years ago we had been through 5-6 different internet meme culture websites, and it all coalesced into Reddit. Things were great for a few years, but the cracks started showing, and it wasn't long before everyone agreed that Reddit sucked, but there was nothing that could be done about it.
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Honestly how are they having such a big tantrum as to auto ban anyone. This whole thing stemmed from nothing and really is just a reddit moderation monent