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From the perspective of a mod, the only thing they end up having is the content, and the current patterns of interference they are familiar with.

So if your opinion happens to be in line with whatever narrative someone is trying to spin up, it will end up getting quashed.

Frankly there isn’t any solution to this, and you either end up losing ground to mechanised speech while having a low ban load for humans, or you end up acting on likely mechanized speech, and have a higher number of humans you ban.

The way Reddit is set up, people will select the first option over the second.



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