SCoC Decision on Appeal: https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/news/en/item/8467/index.do

TL;DR: Admins feathers are getting ruffled. Stop posting links to guns and gun parts, be mindful of edgy jokes, otherwise Reddit Admins man smack you with the ban hammer, and there's nothing us subreddit admins can do if Reddit admins ban you.

Full: Hey, everyone! I'm just writing this post as the mod team has seen a nearly tenfold increase in Reddit Admin actions in this sub in just the last week alone.

First off, you may be asking, "What the hell do you mean by "Reddit Admin actions"?". Well, as it may imply to some, it basically means Reddit Admin gods giving us their blessing condemnation of certain users and sending them straight to hell Reddit jail for prolonged periods of time, or even permanently.

Most of these Admin actions were triggered by users posting links to sites that sell guns and gun parts. Now, that's already against the rules, and we mods remove it under rule 6 when we see it or when it gets flagged/reported, BUT, even though you get the message that "mods have removed your comment", your comment is actually still "live" to Reddit admins if you don't manually delete the comment yourself.

We had an recent bizarre example where even though us subreddit admins took enforcement action against a user for posting links to gun ads 11 days ago, Reddit Admins notified us TODAY that they "removed their comment" and suspended their account, even though it was already removed by me literally 30 mins after the user commented the offending link.

We've also seen other bizarre enforcement actions from admins, targeting obvious jokes within our community, with comments such as:

"You won’t take my tim cards and now you insult me on Reddit, f* k you too and s *k my nUt filled cheeks".

and

"U SHOLD NOT HAVE GUNB BC GUNVS ARE BADD AND IF NOONE HAS A GUNT EVRY1 IS SAFE OVIOUSLY CRIMINALS R GETTING GUBS FROM LEGEL GUT OWNERZ SO U NEED 2 GIV UP UR GUNZ FOR NO $$$ BC IT’S THE RITE THING 2 DO IF U WAN OWN GUDS GO 2 USA!!!!1 COPS R RIGHTWING FASCIST THATS Y THEY DONT WANT 2 HELP W BAN!!!111. ONING GUNBS MAKES TEH CHANCES OF GETING SHOOT BY GUN GO UP 1,000,00000,000%!!!!1111. Y WOLD U WAN 2 OWN A GUM JUS PLAY COD OR SMH LIEK 4 REAL!!!111"

being removed by Reddit Admins days later and having the users' accounts suspended.

So please, be mindful of what you post/comment. If Reddit Admins think it's "edgy," spam or trolling, it's possible Admins may smack you with a ban hammer, and if they do, WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER IT. If your content is removed by us for violating sub rules, please consider deleting your comment so you don't get smacked by Reddit admins days later. These rules are here so that we protect you from having your account nuked.

Thanks, gunnies!

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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Post flaired as Misc, couldn't find something else suitable.

I am creating this post so you can make an informed decision before signing up to this website.

Since it was shared on Monday I have been looking in to the canadianfirearmsexchange website and its creator. Original post

I have found in probing the website that not only is it scattershot with poorly implemented or unfinished features, more concerningly I don't believe he has been upfront about how the site has been created or how he's handling and storing user data.

1) His admin routes are discoverable

The client bundle lists routes including:

• /admin/users
• /admin/listings
• /admin/etransfers <----- THIS**
• /admin/contact
• /admin/reports
• /admin/broadcast
• /admin/members/$userId

**He IS collecting users etransfer information, despite saying around the website that "We never collect or store credit card or banking details."

His Supabase project ID is exposed

• Supabase project ID: [removed] - Shown to CanadaGuns mods privately
• Numerous administrative route names and server-function identifiers are exposed too

2) Analytics runs before consent checks. Opt-out doesn't opt-out

The privacy policy says analytics cookies are used “with your consent,” and the banner offers “Essential only.” However, /~flock.js is inserted unconditionally into every page.

It records:

• Full page URL and path
• Referring page
• Browser user-agent
• Preferred language/locale
• A country estimate derived from your timezone
• Timestamp and session ID
• Tracks navigation
• Exposes window.Tinybird.trackEvent(...), allowing the site’s other code to submit custom analytics events.

The site has a second, consent-aware analytics implementation that checks cfe_cookie_consent_v1, but the separate Flock script does not perform that check. Choosing “Essential only” therefore does not to stop all analytics.

Knowingly, or unknowingly he is tracking his users and they can’t opt out of it,.
I wont attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, but in this case, both are really bad for a guy claiming to have 30 years of IT experience and raises questions about how experienced the site’s creator actually is.

3) The site lacks any anti-clickjacking protections

The sampled responses did not include either:

• Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors none'
• X-Frame-Options

Meaning an attacker could potentially place the site inside an invisible or deceptive iframe and trick a signed-in member into clicking message, listing, or account controls.

4) Finally, and in some ways the most damning of all. The site has been made using Lovable, an AI service.

• The homepage’s Open Graph image contains a Lovable project identifier ending in .lovable.app.
• Image paths use Lovable’s /__l5e/assets-v1/… infrastructure.
• The JavaScript explicitly references:
• window.__lovableEvents
• .lovableproject.com
• .lovable.app
• .lovable.dev

Using Lovable does not itself make the site unsafe. The concern is whether someone competent has reviewed the generated application, backend authorization, privacy model, and operational controls.

I would argue it hasn't been human-reviewed, because of everything I outline above.

People are being asked to submit their real names, providing their location data and addresses (or having it scraped) and a wealth of metadata when they use this.

Not only that, submit an etransfer payment as part of the identification verification process.

And his "geo-protections" are amateurishly done by looking up your IP using IPAPI(dotcom).

For all intents and purposes, barring the actual firearm serial numbers - he is creating alarmingly invasive and private registry of all his users. He is handling their data badly, all while saying he isn't.

TLDR;
This website tracks you even when you opt out.
The site admin is collecting a wealth of information on you, but is saying he isn't (I just cant confirm the extent of the information being collected.)
The site is made with Lovable an AI service, and uses Tinybird(Flock.js), Supabase and a limited application of Cloudflare to handle your data.

This site is a bad actors dream, I would not recommend anyone submit their personal information to it.

-TVS

As per popular request, photo comments and GIFs are now live! Reddit is also rolling out video comments too very shortly. We will make an announcement when that goes live, as well! Enjoy!

Phase 1 of the pilot produced no problems, so we're moving onto the next phase! Have fun!

Hello everyone!

This is just a quick post to let you know that we've recently enabled Approved Users to comment videos within posts. If you are an approved user, you would have received a mod mail from us, so if you didn't receive a mod mail saying you're an approved user at any point in time, well, then you're not an approved user and you won't be able to partake in this pilot.

If you like to be an approved user/take part in this pilot, please send us a mod mail and we will do our checks to make sure you'd be a good fit to have a little more freedom.

We're doing 2 phases. 1st phase we're going to trial it for 2 weeks, until July 17th. If successful and it doesn't cause problems, then we'll move on to phase 2.

Phase 2, we'll roll out the feature to everyone, then closely monitor it for another 2 weeks until July 31st. If the full 4 weeks produce very little to no problems, then we will make this feature permanent for everyone.

Our point of enabling video comments is to just standardize media options with Reddit as a whole, as many subs have it enabled and I think video comments would be helpful for the "fix my gun" type posts.

Thanks everyone!