I got perma banned from Reddit for this comment lol...
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Well I guess this is a good opportunity to do this!
We're allowing no-effort posting, but this is not no-effort, and it does violate other rules. Please do not do this again. And yes, this is a serious mod response!
now let's, uh, see how I can distinguish this comment and all that stuff
I hadn't read your full comment when I posted it. Then saw the low/no effort thing after. Oh well, lol. Test out your mod tools.
Don't worry about it, as long as you aren't doing it intentionally and it doesn't take over the dev site I'm not going to crack down on it too much :)
Mod tools are . . . awkward, but functional, at least!
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I guess Reddit must consider all drag queens to be pedophiles, otherwise the comment isn't promoting hate. Unless promoting hate against pedos is what they are concerned about (which reminds me of my previous ban for sexualizing children, which I think was from calling the film with a young, nude Brooke Shields to be akin to 'child porn'.)
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