[pc86]

Because Reddit's answer would be to simply ban the entire community. There's not much choice on the mods' side.

Yes, Reddit would have other options of course. But they all cost money, so they wouldn't do it. Spez would just nuke WSB and move on with his day, secure in the belief that he saved Reddit from an SEC fine or whatever.

[enchiridion]

Not so sure about that. WSB buys a ridiculous amount of awards. Reddit might be willing to spend a little too keep them up.

[b0afc375b5]

I'm curious to see if there's publicly available data about award usage per subreddit.

I tried quick searching for "award usage per subreddit stats" but can't find anything.

[o-__-o]

You would need to scrape data via the api

[qwertox]

Scraping data via an API? You either scrape the website or query the API.

[Marciplan]

I think you knew full well what the writer meant :)

[the8472]

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[martinko]

Maybe the API only returns HTML ;)

[im3w1l]

Reddit has two approaches they use. One is to target the sub itself with bans or quarantines as you say. The other is promote / demote mods.

[dmix]

And the last thing you want is Reddit moderation involved.

It’s more arbitrary and poorly due processed than Google,PayPal,FB etc.

[dheera]

They could also just ban SEC and NYC IP addresses instead. Ultimately information wants to be free.

[bigbluedots]

Information doesn't want anything - it's not sentient. Humans wanting information to be certain things is a bit different.

[Alupis]

> They could also just ban SEC and NYC IP addresses instead. Ultimately information wants to be free.

Because someone at the SEC can't use their home connection? Or their cell phone?

Also, there's not exactly a list of SEC IP addresses anywhere I'm aware of, and they could easily add/remove addresses at will.