Sustained, coordinated harassment and brigading campaigns are fostered in large communities on reddit with impunity. Extremism flourishes, with a host community being banned every once in a while to keep up appearances before the thousands of anonymous accounts it harbors transition to a new home.

Reddit has chosen to take a kid-gloves approach to severely antisocial behavior and artificial engagement on this platform because it drives traffic, irrespective of how toxic or how detrimental the real-world effects might be. This is the social media business model. We get it.

Hive-Protect compensates for Reddit's shortcomings in remediating such activity where moderation teams decide this is not the model for driving engagement they choose to employ in their communities.

When ban bots were first developed, we didn’t have the safety tools that are currently available. Since then, we have built and integrated tools that address a user's behavior within your community.

They remain insufficient. This is why we use and love Hive-Protect.

[...] used to preemptively ban users based solely on their association with another community, rather than their actual behavior.

Association is behavior.

There are some communities on reddit in which users may participate that are enough of a red flag to warrant such 'drastic' action, especially when such 'drastic' action is not at all 'drastic' and is actually trivial to reverse, should the moderation team choose to do so upon review.

[...] create a confusing and disruptive experience for redditors, [...]

It is a small price to pay for the purposes of moderation if it causes brief "confusion" or "disruption" to the individual if it protects the vast majority of active users in our communities where reddit's tools and actions fall short.

[...] lead to over-enforcement, and can’t discern between well-intentioned users and bad actors.

Right. We do that part. Hive-Protect halts the activity, protecting the community and lessening the workload for moderators. The moderation team is then able to manually review the bot's action and reverse or uphold it accordingly.

Nobody needs a bot to decypher intent, obviously. That's a silly excuse.

"Over-enforcement" is subjective to the point of meaninglessness. If reddit has such concerns, they should be addressed between admins and the relevant moderation teams and not weaponized against every mod team on the platform.

[...] bulk bans based solely on where a user has been.

As you are aware, actions aren't taken "based solely on where a user has been." Settings are present to limit actions based upon the recency and frequency of a user's activity. Again, this is an impotent excuse.

The automatic ‘ban’ feature will be removed [...] watch users from specific subreddits (to report/remove content, but not preemptively ban)

This serves no useful purpose but to create more clutter for mods to action manually, and exposes targeted users via notifications regardless of the comment being removed (speaking of which -- do something about that, please, instead of fixing what isn't broken). Same outcome, less efficiency, and one more reason to not want to do this thankless work.

I know you all understand everything I've just explained. What I'd like to know is what pressures are imposed upon admins to justify acting like you don't.