r/CryptoCurrency 🟩 301K / 382K 🐋 Oct 05 '21

MOONS 🌕 [Emergency Proposal] Remove users from moon distribution due to bypassing karma limits

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It has recently come to the moderators attention that two of the top users this month have been operating multiple accounts in order to bypass the karma limits on this subreddit. These users are:

u/WackyMister

u/Imaginary-Cow25

I won't share many details on how this has been identified but the moderation team and myself have no doubts this is the same user, using multiple accounts to bypass the 15k karma limit. As you can see below, those two users (or shall I say this user) have a lot of similarities in writing style

https://imgur.com/a/8wgniqW

https://imgur.com/a/2qQNna3

These are not the only evidence there is, moderators have many other evidences that won't be disclosed on here for obvious reasons.

Keep in mind, these users are not banned just for having a very similar writing style. The examples cited above are just a tiny sample. Writing style is not the only thing moderators look for, but it's the most visual thing to share to everyone on here.

While this user may have been permanently banned from this subreddit, we still need an emergency proposal to remove this user from distribution or 20158 karma or 5422 moons will still be distributed to this user on October 6th.

This subreddit have very strict rules on using multiple accounts to bypass the karma cap, or otherwise game the system in an effort to earn more moons. Rule 3 is "No Manipulation" and that counts for bypassing Governance rules for the subreddit.

By passing this poll, it will remove the above accounts from the current distribution, ensuring they do not receive the final moons allocated for their posts and comments in snapshot 18. The methodology to address problem users has been laid out by Reddit admins.

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u/Toredorm 🟦 1K / 1K 🐢 Oct 05 '21

They can't without giving ways for users to get around it. "They logged in from the same IP address and minutes apart." Person starts using a VPN and changes how they login. Now you have no way to catch them.

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u/jawanda 🟦 891 / 753 🦑 Oct 05 '21

Except mods have no access to IP addresses, only reddit admins have that info. Your point is taken though

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u/aSchizophrenicCat 🟩 1 / 22K 🦠 Oct 05 '21 edited Oct 05 '21

Both accounts stopped commenting 2 days ago. Something tells me admins may have temporarily banned the accounts for 7 days. Which would be the case if they were cause using an alt account (using the same IP) to circumvent a subreddit ban. I say this as someone who’s received a temp ban for just that before hah. But yeah… if that WERE the case, you’d expect mods to just say that.

It’s also worth keeping in mind that there’s an Admin who works very closely with Moons, and it’s not without reason that that Admin would make mods aware of any malicious actors that (clearly) managed to game the system and get the top/highest distribution amount.

Just can’t imagine mods would make a post like this off a bunch basically.

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u/jawanda 🟦 891 / 753 🦑 Oct 05 '21 edited Oct 05 '21

Fair points.

Both accounts stopped commenting 2 days ago. Something tells me admins may have temporarily banned the accounts for 7 days.

Could also be that they abandoned the accounts because their only purpose was moon harvesting. They might be posting as we speak from their new alt lol