the first major reddit drama was '16-17, and who was elected at that time. and when the gop were forcing subs to be shutdown. and then the first sweep of political based bans started which got worst over time, because reddit was developing more and more sensitive ways to detect spam/bots, and even innuendos will catch you a ban. and then starting from the last election to early last year, when they massive purged most user accounts. which led them to now require logins to SCOUR for more AI data.