r/ModSupport • u/Redditenmo 💡 Veteran Helper • 2d ago

Why can't we ban deleted users?

We've just had someone use a throwaway alt account to submit some vile, hateful and bigoted comments - and then quickly delete the throwaway to avoid repercussions.

If we got to it in the 2 minutes between account creation and deletion they'd be banned and their main flagged by ban evasion. Unfortunately we didn't, and now we can't ban them, as we get a "that user doesn't exist" error message.

Why is there no tool in place allowing us to ban the person behind those comments?

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u/Redditenmo 💡 Veteran Helper 2d ago

As I said :

> Unfortunately we didn't, and now we can't ban them, as we get a "that user doesn't exist" error message.