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[–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (4 children)

Yes and no. I've preemptively banned obvious trolls before, and don't regret it. I'll also take a user's post history into consideration when debating whether to remove their comment/post or remove and ban.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

But what if somebody said "faggot" in AskReddit. Would you ban them in AskWomen or Embroidery (Which by the way I did not know was an actual subreddit. I guess I'll be checking that out now)?

[–]Baconated_Kayos 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Depends. If you dont want them posting in your subreddit, then go for it.

If you dont care, or want to wait to see how they behave later, then wait.

Really depends on the person and the moderator. There's no right or wrong answer here.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If I see someone use that sort of language in a sub I don't mod, I'm not gonna run straight to my mod interface and add them to the ban list.

However, if I see someone running around 2X just generally being a misogynist troll, I probably would.

[–]kjoneslolsubreddits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If a person doesn't participate in the subreddit and does shitty stuff in other subs then I don't really understand the reason for banning them. Bans are to stop people from participating in a negative way. If they aren't participating then that user is banning themselves for you.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. In the case of /r/SteamGameSwap, if you act in the sort of way that tickles us moderators in the wrong direction, we'll ban you, no questions asked, just to make sure that you won't be heading our way.

In the case of the circlejerks, well, if you catch my attention, you get a ban.

[–]spunshadowtwoxchromosomes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We ban users for crossposting links from our subreddit into other subreddits, but that's the only one.
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