Hi mods and hosts,

We noticed a trend where some users were joining a channel, getting banned quickly after 1 or 2 messages, and then repeating with other channels — multiple times. These users are not participating in good faith and causing the majority of bad experiences for you and your members.

Therefore, we launched a new feature that should help minimize bad actors inside your chat channels:

If a user is banned from 2 channels, they’re automatically banned from all channels on Reddit. As you continue to ban users who are being a nuisance or breaking Reddit rules, you should notice fewer problematic users over time as you’re collectively stopping them from joining each other's channels.

This might be a temporary measure until we can ship more robust safety features in the new year, so we’ll monitor its impact after we launch.