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by sillysaurus3 3137 days ago
T_D is already banned from /r/all. During the election you'd see a T_D post bubble up to the top often enough that Command-F "The_Donald" would give at least 4 out of 200. Now there's not a single post in the top 300. And I don't think they necessarily ran afoul of vote manipulation rules and therefore got banned: the election demonstrates there are just a lot of vocal supporters.

It's something of a myth that T_D needs to be banned in order to appease advertisers. They keep to themselves.

Fortunately spez is smart. Bringing down the hammer on T_D could very well start a civil war. He seems to be wary of this.