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Modern spam tools I've encountered accept a second account list to be used for verification purposes for this reason. They can automatically purge shadowbanned accounts by spot checking comments for visibility.



I wondered about that - it seems like an actual spammer would have an easy time checking from other accounts, so it adds at most a minor amount of extra work, while real users who are incorrectly flagged never even think to check.




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