[RhodesianHunter]

Reddit Admin itself will blanket ban accounts in entire sub-threads with no recourse or explanation.

Participate in a well informed debate on monetary policy, but some idiot downthread went on an anti-semitic rant?

Your account will be banned. Your ip address will be blocked from creating additional accounts. You will receive a link in a message to the message you wrote for which you were banned, but since it was deleted it will be a worthless link. You will receive a link to a form to appeal your ban, which goes straight to dev/null.

[delfinom]

>Your ip address will be blocked from creating additional accounts.

Worse, they use browser fingerprinting AND IP.

[waboremo]

Yeah they track quite a lot of bits of data for users. It's the very reason why most new users are found bemoaning how annoying it is to start posting on reddit.

It's your email, social account, ip/location, browser fingerprint info, search terms, information from their partners (ad networks, apps) and cookies, subs you visit, what you upvote/downvote/save/report, which page on reddit you're coming from/going to, etc. They use these to then determine blocks/shadowbans/counteract your votes and so on.

Has this resulted in a substantial quality increase on reddit? Oh absolutely not, you'll get chatgpt bots, people harassing you, completely unrelated comments, report abuse, etc. but they'll never give up that much data.