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View submission: Q4 Safety & Security Report
Issues I've noticed:
1. The auto-escalation of reports involving the word "violence" is a bit disconcerting. Some subreddits will have a pre-canned report option along the lines of, "Unacceptable content: No violence, insults, or corny knock-knock jokes," and choosing it will result in a Reddit administrative reply over whether or not the reported content was deemed to be violent. The first couple times, I was afraid I'd misclicked the report reason.
2. Comment-stealing bots are out of control. I'm seeing way more instances of a bot stealing a lower top-level comment and reposting it to a chain higher in the post threading. Even with the counter-bots pointing out the issue, it's causing a persistent, disruptive influence in certain large subreddits.
3. If your block list gets too long (an problem that's not helped by the influx of spam bots in point #2), old-style Reddit refuses to let you load the blocking page so you can remove entries. The page times out (presumably due to the database query taking too long), and you're stuck with an error page.
Comment by petra303 at 17/02/2022 at 05:02 UTC
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Any counter bots are now being pre-blocked by the nefarious accounts. Making any proactive bots useless. I mean they are basically self reporting as bad actors if anyone on the back end cares to look at the database of who’s blocked who.