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      3 days ago

      A 5y ban is a permaban under another name. By then the user already disengaged the community, or circumvented the ban.

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          2 days ago

          Reddit might have originated as a link aggregator but for all intents and purposes it’s a clusterfuck of forums anyway.

          That said the difference between Reddit and old style forums in this case is that the permaban is never enforced; that place is so corrupt that you’re expected to circumvent the rules and the punishment. A hypothetical 5y ban would be the same.