r/canadaguns • u/Rusty_Stahlhelm Mod's Alt. Account • Aug 13 '26

Announcement TOWNHALL Discussion: Proposed Changes to Combat Reddit Admins Banning People Under Sitewide Rule 7

Hey guys:

Over the last few weeks, we've seen a large amount of people banned by Reddit Admins, always citing this same sitewide rule; Rule 7... One of our well known vendors, u/SpectreBallistics, was recently banned, but thankfully their appeal was granted. Unfortunately, one of our mods, u/Cre_AK47 was permanently banned, with their appeal also being denied, so we need to have a Subreddit discussion on how we can mitigate Admin actions because countless people are having their accounts wiped clean because of their comments and posts that are not rule breaking content as per their Reddit's own TOS, are somehow finding themselves being flagged for being in violation of Rule 7...

These are not set in stone, we are open to feedback, but these are the most realistic options the mod team sees as a way to attempt to curve this ban wave. We are also open to any alternative suggestions.

Proposed solutions:

  1. We ramp up Automod aggressively to either warn, or actively remove content that may be picked up by AI Reddit Admins.
  2. We try adding a mandatory experimental disclaimer to comments to posts and comments when people make mention of prices, posting links to gun stores, mentioning vendors. We have no idea if this would work, and frankly, it would be a PITA to code into Automod, but it might be worth trying stating explicitly that "This comment/post is NOT A TRANSACTION, SALE OR AN OFFER" in case it is in fact an AI that looks at these "reports".
  3. All links are banned, except media (YouTube, Reddit, News sites, etc.). Since Reddit admins will literally ban you for linking to a gun safe on a furniture catalogue website, any links are basically not safe if the word "gun" and "link" mix...
  4. We do nothing and people continue to get banned left, right and centre since Reddit admins love operating on ambiguity and outright lies on external links.

We really don't want to have to do any of this, but admins inaction are forcing us to do something because of their inaction and lack of clarity, never mind saying posting links to legal vendors is good to go, while at the same time, people are getting banned, permanently for doing just that... Also, please stay on topic. We know this is very upsetting, but something needs to change, and it seems it isn't going to be Admin enforcement actions that's going to be changing anytime soon.

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u/613mitch Aug 13 '26

I think the only appropriate solution is to either move back to or begin a new forum, or encourage migration to a different social media platform.

Reddit has been circling the drain for quite some time.

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u/DougMacRay617 Aug 13 '26

Yeah the migration to somthing else is the best bet, the real question is where to

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u/some_guy2024 Aug 13 '26

CGN for Canada stuff 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/outline8668 Aug 13 '26

Oh boy you ever try reading the politics or news sections on CGN? I hate the liberals with my soul but that place gets so far off the deep end I feel secondhand embarrassment for all the cringe.

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u/some_guy2024 Aug 14 '26

Honestly, I don’t. Mostly cause I have no interest in reading people’s takes on that crap. I just read the gun specific sub-forums. There used to be tons of great info and posts before the 2020 bans by that sack of shit Trudeau et al. No reason not to migrate back there and just ignore news and politics 🤷🏼‍♂️