Was banned from the sinusitis subreddit for telling (apparently a mod) that a deviated septum absolutely can cause a sinus infection. He got upset and banned me- and even denied my ability to respond to the ban.

Petty? Maybe. But that’s the final straw for me. I just finished deleting all posts and then the account. So sick of arrogant toxic mods.

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    The point is, they can make it happen. It even says so in the ban notification.

    “Any attempt to circumvent this ban by using alt accounts will result in a sitewide ban.”

    Wether they do it themselves, or report you to admins, the end result is the same.

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      Mods don’t have any more ability to do it than any other user. They literally just have to use the “report user” function, same as anyone else on reddit. There’s no secret special back door access to the admins that mods get. This is literally one of the things that mods complain about - they don’t have any way to deal with ban avoidance and alt accounts except to hit “report” and cross their fingers.

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        Bullshit. Mods ban from subreddits, and report circumvention to admins. Regular users don’t have any way of knowing if your using an alt. The point is-

        That shit can’t happen here.

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          Mods don’t have any extra way to report users to admins that all users don’t have access to. It’s literally just the “report user” button.

          Mods certainly don’t have any way to detect alts beyond just knowing their community and manually spotting posts with a similar style to known troll accounts.

          Seriously dude, you can see exactly what tools mods have access to just by creating your own sub and just fucking looking for yourself. The mod tools are shit, they get virtually nothing, certainly nothing like you seem to imagine they have. The fact that the mod tools are shit and have been shit since forever and that the admins have made promises to sort them out but never done anything about it are some of the major contributing factors in the protest and the move here. The API change were really just the last straw.

          You’re obviously butthurt over getting banned but based on your attitude here you probably deserved it.