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Hi, when I was a reddit faker (I haven't relapsed, I've stayed out of reddit and never posted another fake story, im cured) I wondered if someone the mods would figure out the tens of accounts that came from my computer and noticed I was the writer of many fake stories.

It seems like that never happened, but come on, the only thing I used at the time was Firefox Containers to be able to sign up with a different account. Not even a VPN or any of that.

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[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Reddit Admins absolutely track IP addresses and browser ID numbers.

When Reddit got pissed that we were deleting our posted content and locking down the site they mass banned hundreds of the moderators including myself. They hit accounts I had not logged into since 2013 so they absolutely are tracking account connections.

[-] HamSwagwich@showeq.com 7 points 1 year ago

He's asking about moderators, not admins. Of course admins can see that information.

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Moderators can't see anything.

[-] inasaba@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Actually, moderators have access to a new tool that flags accounts suspected of ban evasion. The cannot see IPs or which other accounts were related, but they can see if an account is suspected and with what level of confidence. Many subreddits have a policy to ban all such flagged accounts.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, subreddit moderators can't, but the people who run the servers certainly can. Same goes on Lemmy, by the way: the operators of an instance can access that information via web server logs. In general, if you operate a web server, you absolutely can track the IP address information of any browser that connects to that web server. This is a fundamental requirement of TCP/IP; the server needs to see the client's IP address in order to be able to serve the page.

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

If you were banned from a community and re-join with a new account, the new one will be flagged for ban-evasion and it's up to the mods to allow the posts or not. Admins can definitely see your IP and can ban you site-wide, but subreddit moderators cannot.

[-] YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Reddit changed their code, if your ip address or browser ID pop-up the account is instantly banned. They track your phone ID too so you'll have to get a new sim card to use the site again.

[-] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Or you could just send them fake data, or, better yet, you could just not use reddit lol

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but that only counts for site-wide bans, not subreddit bans.

[-] Atemu@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Mods cannot access that kind of information, only admins.

[-] Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

There is way better way than IP to identify/track an user.

To my understanding,mods can't see IP or any personal info, but admin can and data broker get a nice package oh data from your reddit

[-] simple@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

Pretty much any server nowadays logs IPs, so they probably know who you are. It's unlikely they're going to do anything about it though.

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