https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csergi/subredditBot/master/banned_souls.txt
I found this today. I'm on it. Curious if it's what I think it is.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csergi/subredditBot/master/banned_souls.txt
I found this today. I'm on it. Curious if it's what I think it is.
This is from five years ago, when /r/ThanosDidNothingWrong successfully lobbied Reddit admins into banning exactly half of their subscribers so that the other half could live in peace and prosperity. There was a whitelisted subreddit for the half of /r/ThanosDidNothingWrong that got banned, called /r/InTheSoulStone, and the list you posted is the latter subreddit's whitelist (called 'banned_souls.txt' for that reason).
Yep, Leftists do this sort of thing all the time, they frequently maintain auto-mod lists so they can ban anyone who looks at them funny. This is also part of the reason there was reddit drama recently because the leftists mods were bitching about having to pay for tools they used to ban everyone in sight.
In this specific case it wasn't leftists being shitheads, it was merely people getting into the spirit of Avengers: Infinity War.
This was the last time I was active on a large subreddit; hard to believe it's a full five years ago now. It was a fun event, probably the last big genuinely non-political event Reddit had.