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grugagaglast Tuesday at 2:46 AM2 repliesview on HN

How are permabanned? Can you just change the handle or create a new account?


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lovichlast Tuesday at 2:56 AM

I had a few alt accounts, they were all banned and I wasn’t able to make a new account with existing emails.

I assume, with no evidence, that they just used the same data tracking for ads, to enforce the ban. I think Meta turned on the real banning tech during a panic in Covid iirc

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qingcharleslast Tuesday at 7:35 AM

Their ban system is really hard to get around. They use a massive amount of different signals to try to detect anyone trying to get around a ban.

(Reddit has two forms of bans, shadowbans and permabans, both have essentially the same effect)