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by nanistheonlyist 3205 days ago
Perhaps I missed it, but this paper seems to ignore usage of alt accounts. Many users have more than one reddit persona and may have simply stopped using their FPH persona rather than leave the site as the authors assumed.
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> Perhaps I missed it, but this paper seems to ignore usage of alt accounts.

It's also mistakenly attributing lack of "hate speech by these accounts to banning of subreddits when it's actually that most of reddit now censors "hate speech" and bans accounts that do so.