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localroger

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13. If Twitter thinks he's using multiple accounts, he's using multiple accounts
Thu Apr 15, 2021, 06:25 PM
Apr 2021

The thing the big platforms hate more than anything is having their ranking systems which select content for other users gamed, and they have advanced algorithmic ways to detect this. A friend of mine once had a constellation of 30 Reddit accounts which he used, through separate VPN's so they didn't all come from the same IP address or provider, to upvote each others' contributions. One day they were all shadowbanned. (Reddit doesn't tell you what's going on, they just arrange it so that only you can see what you have done when you are logged in as yourself, and nobody else is bothered by you.) I believe they detected that those accounts formed a group which only ever upvoted one another, and after a period of this pattern being consistent they banned him. I suspect something like this is what happened to poor ole James.

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