Raven

It’s complex to answer. Reddit’s permanent ban is too strict.

They look at your IP address, cookies, local storage, your linked IDs if you linked them (phone number, email address, Google account, Apple ID, etc.), browser metadata, your digital fingerprint like WebGL data, WiFi BSSID, the app also keeps a note of the IMEI number of your device.

And I’ve read this somewhere that their AI moderation keeps an eye on your language that you type in, the words you use often and activity timing. I am not sure about this claim but they probably do it. System links all these activities with accounts that have banned in the past and if they find more than 5-7 very obvious links, you get another ban.

The system stays on high alert for first 10 days of suspicious activity on your account. It gradually lowers the flagging by 30 days but its still a risky zone. One mistake and it picks the flag. You have to clean your browser before you use it again on your main browser. Uninstall and reinstall in many cases, clearing any session data, cookies and even %TEMP% files and cache files from your root folder.

I am not sure about the app though, a friend of mine had a secondary phone where he used Reddit, he was able to evade the ban only by factory data resetting the device and then installing the app from a new Google Account. I never really used the app, I am not a phone person, I use my laptop most of the times so don’t know how the app thing works.

Well, it depends on the user. To some, its worth it. And to some it doesn’t. Its about the community size.

This is the biggest “inner battle”, especially when its early morning and you are half asleep and your bladder kicks you to move but the body doesn’t want to move.

The moment you state a fact or something that the folks at Reddit don’t like, you’ll get banned. And it will be a deep ban. You create a new account on same device without sanitizing it , use same network without VPN or join the same subs right after signup, you’ll get another ban.

Best way is to signup on a device, browser and network you never used before, use VPN if you use the same network. Use an email that you’ve never used before. Stay low for 10 days, join random subs here and there and make some subtle comments, maybe a few posts to act genuine. Then for five days, make your 20% activity without VPN, don’t cut VPN entirely because that raises the flag. Keep using the same device and browser for at least 30 days.

Then you can start casually switching to your main devices and network. Stay low for 10 more days when you switch back before joining the same subs where you got banned. This often beats the automated checks and the system doesn’t connect the dots for links between your banned account(s) and new one.

Too much to ask for an “anonymous” social media platform.

Well, that’s not how gaming works. Those 5.7 million games installed in your laptop mean nothing. Gaming is a passion for a specific game and its further additions. For example, if I love a game called “Test Game”, and then they released “Test Game 2”, then “Test Game 3”, I am gonna play all of them. And when “Test Game 4” comes out and I find out that I cannot play it because SONY wanted to be an @$$, all those other games installed in my computer are just useless .exe files because SONY broke my chain of story progressions and experience with a game. We don’t play games to increase the count of games installed in our computer, we play games for the love of gaming and certain games feel like home for that love. Just installing any random .exe file without a meaning to increase the count of games installed and laughing at a steam library makes no sense for a gamer. Digital hording and gaming are different things.

ChipotleGPT 😂

Maybe that’s why the government never makes certain vaccines mandatory, especially those that prevent communicable diseases.

And there’s a talk going around about single-player campaigns won’t come to PC, they’ll be PlayStation only.

I love the idea, maybe bricking the device may take some time but something that blasts weird audio on the phone or opens 100 tabs of weird websites on someone’s phone?

Yea I have seen that happening. 😂

LOL! yea I did it just now. 😆

I once saw someone sending ChatGPT and Gemini Pro in a constant loop by asking “Is seahorse emoji real?”. That responses were in a constant loop. I have heard that the theory of “Mandela Effect” in this case is not true. They say that the emoji existed on Microsoft’s MSN messenger and early stages of Skype. Don’t know how much of it is true. But it was fun seeing artificial intelligence being bamboozled by real intelligence. The guy was proving that AI is just a tool, not a permanent replacement of actual resources.

I would not want the honey from Resident Evil anywhere near my breakfast.

So what’s the point? Its a win-win drivers and passengers both right? Because the male drivers also face problems like threat of a false accusation, vomit in the car, cancelling ride in-between and not getting paid or being robbed.

A friend of mine used drive a cab for a company that took night shift employees from workplace to their homes. He was allowed to use that cab as a taxi in off time, so he did that to make some extra money. A hardworking man with a good character. He got a ride from a nightclub to some hotel or some place (I don’t recall that). He does not drive anymore, he left that job and has started some other work. Not all men are bad, and not all women are good.

The passenger was so drunk that she couldn’t even get into the car by herself. So he helped her into the backseat and then he started driving. She cancelled the ride mid-way and when he asked her to get off, she attacked him from backseat and threatened him with a false accusation. To his good luck, the guy had a two-way recording dashcam in the car, that he used to save himself.

Male drivers probably want that too. Especially the drunk women.