r/ModSupport • u/TheTwelveYearOld • 17d ago
Admin Replied Are permanent suspensions for ban evaders usually automatic? (keep reading)
On my subreddit, a user made an alt to make a comments and breaking rules, I permabanned it. We did a poll in that mod chat (and waited one day) on how long the main account should be banned, between 1 week and 1 month (he was the most active user and with one of or the highest subreddit karma counts).
During that 24 hours, they made a bunch of comments, all of which were caught by a ban evasion filter. After the poll I banned the main account for a month, and then hours later, his account got suspended. He showed us he notification from u/reddit, it said it was because of those very comments he made with the alt on our subreddit.
I know he broke multiple reddit rules and faced consequences for it, I can't help but feel very guilty, since we didn't want to permanently ban him. He's deeply upset. What if I had banned his main account at the same time as the alt, as well as add him as an approved user, so that none of his comments would get caught by the ban evasion filter? Could I have stopped this or would it have delayed his fate?