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> Check their post history, one "lol" on a cat pic on /r/aww 8 months ago.

And now Reddit has made it possible to hide your post history.

Probably because of this exact issue.

The funny thing about that is it's extremely simple to bypass. On old or new reddit, search 'author:example' to find posts by /u/example. Or to see both comments and posts, on new reddit go to the user profile and do blank search like a single space character.

That's using reddit's own site, of course there are other methods like Google dorks.

Well that and some moderators of large subreddits like to ban people based on participation in other subreddits that “disagree” with whatever flavor echo chamber the moderator happens to live in.

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