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View submission: Safety update on Reddit’s follow feature
We’ve also placed new restrictions on username creation, and are looking into other types of restrictions on the backend.
This is good news. Honestly as someone who has seen a lot of users who troll just by creating usernames with slurs in them and posting in the subs, it will hopefully make things easier to moderate.
I also want to point out that reporting accounts should be a thing still. Reporting a user who slipped through the username cracks is impossible as of now, and we can't accurately describe why a "post/comment" is offensive if the reason it's offensive is because of the username.
Comment by --cheese-- at 14/07/2021 at 17:35 UTC
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Reporting accounts absolutely needs to be a thing. With space to give a reason for the report.
I've reported comments which made specific reference to intentionally hateful usernames in the past (like "I know you understand what my username means, I had to misspell it to make the account" levels of specific reference) and gotten responses back from AEO saying that the comment I reported didn't violate the content policy. Being able to report a username (and other elements of an account!) - and give an explanation of *why* it's not appropriate for the site - would help make sure these trolls can easily be dealt with even if they take care not to break the content policy in their posts and comments.
Comment by jkohhey at 14/07/2021 at 17:50 UTC
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Hey, u/jkohhey from the safety product team. This is something that our teams have been thinking about while we’ve been making a number of improvements[1] to reporting[2] over the past months. As we continue to improve reporting (with our next focus being on report abuse), we’ll be keeping this in mind. Most importantly we want to ensure when something is reported by you we can correctly direct the report to the right team to action accordingly.
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/jr4y9n/big_update_to_the_inline_reporting_experience/
Comment by TheAdmiralMoses at 14/07/2021 at 17:30 UTC
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Indeed, there's been a few times I've wanted to report users for their NSFW names, or constant use of slurs/robots spamming advertisements, but couldn't find it, glad to know I'm not dumb and such a feature doesn't really exist (and it definitely should!)