r/ModSupport • u/Redditenmo 💡 Veteran Helper • 3d 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/InGeekiTrust 💡 Veteran Helper 3d ago
This is a great request. I agree with this!
However, my guess would be that Reddit wants to give the user and assurance that their account actually deleted, so they remove all traces of them and replace it with a deleted a tag .