I didn’t coach it or anything. I asked it what hexbear was then I asked it about controversies internally then I asked this

Something along those lines it was earlier today

  • glans [it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I wasn’t around at the time I just heard about it. My impression was that they wanted to ban TheDonald because of all the overt terrorism or whatever, but they needed to be bothsides so picked the most annoying leftist sub to appear evenhanded.

    Do youse think you’d have been banned if not for theDonald?

    • crime [she/her, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      Yeah we were banned by the CIA (there’s a good effortpost about it).

      TheDonald had moved to their own website months prior and hadn’t been accepting new posts while directing people there.

      Meanwhile Reddit admins spent months toying with CTH and its posters beforehand - individual accounts would get a 3 day temp ban for “upvoting rulebreaking content” issues every 4 days (meaning you’d get 1 day of activity) and they wouldn’t tell you what it was for the most part. They did at first and it was always something stupid, so they stopped trying to justify it bc people would appeal it. You basically needed a rotation of alts to keep posting. After the CTH ban they stopped doing that across the board.