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Has anyone got the archive of Reddit calling us dickbags or something when the banning commenced?

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They call us shitheads.
This quarter, we dealt with a highly coordinated ban evasion ring from users of r/opieandanthony. This began after we banned the subreddit for targeted harassment of users, as well as repeated copyright infringement. The group would quickly pop up on both new and abandoned subreddits to continue the abuse. We also learned that they were coordinating on another platform and through dedicated websites to redirect users to the latest target of their harassment.

This situation was different from your run-of-the-mill shitheadery ban evasion because the group was both creating new subreddits and resurrecting inactive or unmoderated subreddits. We quickly adjusted our efforts to this behavior. We also reported their offending account to the other platform and they were quick to ban the account. We then contacted the hosts of the independent websites to report the abuse. This helped ensure that the sites are no longer able to redirect automatically to Reddit for abuse purposes. Ultimately, we banned 78 subreddits (5 of which existed prior to the attack), and suspended 2,382 accounts. The ban evading activity has largely ceased (you know...until they read this).
I always laugh at the 78 subs and 2,382 accounts. What rascals we are.
 

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They call us shitheads.

I always laugh at the 78 subs and 2,382 accounts. What rascals we are.

‘They were coordinating on another platform’ I always loved imagining the hilarious conversations that must have taken place between the jannies at Twitter and Reddit regarding wether or not the sub redirections were against Twitter policy.
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They had to come up with that spyware cookie thing to get us and it really only made it inconvenient enough that most folks said fuck it and tried some alternatives before our street shitting benefactor arrived with the forrems.

Remember that first guy who tried to do a forum and he tried to set some ground rules which went poorly so he closed it down? And then Saidit where the guys kept bringing up the pyramid of debate or whatever and were promptly called niggers and faggots?

Rip r/Scorch. You were too PFG for this non-PFG world.
 

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They had to come up with that spyware cookie thing to get us and it really only made it inconvenient enough that most folks said fuck it and tried some alternatives before our street shitting benefactor arrived with the forrems.

Remember that first guy who tried to do a forum and he tried to set some ground rules which went poorly so he closed it down? And then Saidit where the guys kept bringing up the pyramid of debate or whatever and were promptly called niggers and faggots?

Rip r/Scorch. You were too PFG for this non-PFG world.
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They had to come up with that spyware cookie thing to get us and it really only made it inconvenient enough that most folks said fuck it and tried some alternatives before our street shitting benefactor arrived with the forrems.

Remember that first guy who tried to do a forum and he tried to set some ground rules which went poorly so he closed it down? And then Saidit where the guys kept bringing up the pyramid of debate or whatever and were promptly called niggers and faggots?

Rip r/Scorch. You were too PFG for this non-PFG world.
Shit was moving so fast the most retarded and technologically illiterate of us were lost in the shuffle. Took a few years of wandering the desert like a common Jew, but we found our home again.
 

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They had to come up with that spyware cookie thing to get us and it really only made it inconvenient enough that most folks said fuck it and tried some alternatives before our street shitting benefactor arrived with the forrems.

Remember that first guy who tried to do a forum and he tried to set some ground rules which went poorly so he closed it down? And then Saidit where the guys kept bringing up the pyramid of debate or whatever and were promptly called niggers and faggots?

Rip r/Scorch. You were too PFG for this non-PFG world.

I remember him going in the public chat and asking who was in charge and everyone spammed I AM SPARTACUS until he closed the chat and banned us all.
 

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Is there any documentary or anything on this lore? I was probably smoking meth heavily and sucking dick around that time so I missed it.
I don't watch documentaries, but it went like this

- /r/opieandanthony got shut down by SpaceEdge for Patposting (original, not second better SpaceEdge)
- We then started invading subreddits like /r/jimandsame and continued Patposting
- We got banned from those too
- We got banned by mods everywhere we went
- Quasi made a script to automatically select a subreddit at random to raid
- Someone found a subreddit that automatically showed abandoned subreddits, so no mods!
- We started getting admin bans
- We deleted cookies and made new accounts
- Eventually reddit changed something and then everyone was shadowbanned
- Faggot admin gloats in the thread above
 
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