Bard spotting thread 03 July 2024

robywar in r/modnews:

And if the banned person, in fact, broke no written rules?

Reply by Bardfinn in r/modnews:

The hypothesis that "Mods of large, high volume subreddits spend their (precious) time maliciously banning users that never broke a subreddit rule or sitewide rule" is far outweighed, in both reason and in historic evidence, by the alternative hypothesis that "Banned user doesn't understand the rules, or does, and won't admit fault".

I did a study on subreddit bans to find out the truth, and mods do make mistakes and accidentally ban people, but almost always reverse it when they see it. And almost all mods (save mods without modmail privileges) see ban appeals.