Technology

I say fuck Reddit and Lemmy too for not providing the tools to audit modderators. Like we need a removed post/comment/account graveyard where anyone can review and inspect what is being removed with the reasons as to why so that we can have assurance mods are not abusing. Like it is such a simple problem to solve , yet no one wants to implement and thus, here we are.

I imagine the site’s bot-detectors had a false positive (imagine that!). McCartney’s account had only posted once before and then remained dormant for a number of years. Suddenly, the account woke up again and surely must have gained an unusually rapid number of upvotes due to the celebrity status and the fandom subreddit. Looking at this data without any context, white-listing of accounts, or human eyes, this could potentially trigger their automated ban system. Additionally/alternatively, sharing Dropbox links seems to be an unspoken no-no on the site?

Nobody knows yet what triggered the ban. It could have been an automatic system, a moderator decision, or even some glitch with account verification. Reddit has not said a word about it.