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PuttItOut ago

We banned a bunch of accounts today and sent a tremendous amount of warnings.

I did accidently run a batch with a bad config setting and had to manually reverse things.

I think many that got warnings today may be from things up to two months ago.

We don't check warnings like we do bans, so you can get a warning pretty easily but it's nothing to worry about, just a way of us saying "hey, your account showed up on the naughty report."

totes_magotes ago

And if you're flagging accounts for normal activities ("pretty easily"), that's your fuckin' problem. Don't make it ours.

PuttItOut ago

No, you're wrong. If you even show up at all you're being abusive.

StrangeThingsAfoot ago

What exactly counts as "abusive" and "vote manipulation"? Is it possible the script has bugs or flawed logic?

Fateswebb ago

It definitely has bugs, it false detected me. Period. I am a long time user and do nothing but use the forum as intended.

FridayJones ago

Same.

kjlashas893890 ago

the goon squad

TestForScience ago

There's no way he's going to openly discuss the algorithm, dude.
He'd be handing out the playbook for the spammers/manipulators.

european ago

This is perhaps one of the factors that led reddit to first fuzz and then remove upvote and downvote counts . Removing the downvote statistics were kind of a final straw for many seeing it as blatant censorship. perhaps as site's grow they invariably have to make tough decisions based on a number of factors and keeping certain things obscured comes with that territory.

Yogus ago

Fuck off with the security through obscurity ideology. You can have an open policy for these things and still keep them effective.

Locked_Account ago

You have internalized a sound bite. Obscurity is a vital component of security.