I don't think their regex was really thought out. They were probably looking at "chapo(X)" instead of "(Chapo)" [or whatever, I'm not a regex engineer].
Point is, the "moretankie" probably saved MTC than anything.
Nah, ChapoDogHouse is still around. I'm guessing it was based on user activity and/or reported posts; I dunno, I have no idea what the admins' tool kit is like over there. But yeah, it should have been easy enough for them to do a quick search query against the subreddits database table and identify anything with "chapo" in the name.
The few times I have seen the site admins explain themselves, this is exactly how they operated. They just get a database jockey to run the query, and the person who does the job is not involved with the site community in any way. A few of the founding admins were still competent enough to do bans themselves, but kn0thing was the last of that breed that I knew of and he just resigned.
I don't think their regex was really thought out. They were probably looking at "chapo(X)" instead of "(Chapo)" [or whatever, I'm not a regex engineer].
Point is, the "moretankie" probably saved MTC than anything.
Nah, ChapoDogHouse is still around. I'm guessing it was based on user activity and/or reported posts; I dunno, I have no idea what the admins' tool kit is like over there. But yeah, it should have been easy enough for them to do a quick search query against the subreddits database table and identify anything with "chapo" in the name.
The few times I have seen the site admins explain themselves, this is exactly how they operated. They just get a database jockey to run the query, and the person who does the job is not involved with the site community in any way. A few of the founding admins were still competent enough to do bans themselves, but kn0thing was the last of that breed that I knew of and he just resigned.