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> He was a cancer on Reddit and I’m sure he still exists under different monikers. But now there are 100s of gallowboobs.

Yep, for example: If you mention the name "TurboStrider27" on /r/Games, your comment gets shadowbanned.

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Holy hell!! The fact that this name still rings out to me years later really says something! And at one point /r/Games was the gaming subreddit for more informed people (compared to /r/gaming). And then one day somebody pointed out a guy named “TurboStrider27” was responsible for a large amount of slop posts. Lo-and-behold, a majority of posts did come from him.

I had no idea this was implicitly permitted (and even supported) but it makes sense if it’s been ongoing for so long. It’s no accident.

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