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View submission: Safety update on Reddit’s follow feature
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 bleeding-paryl at 14/07/2021 at 18:01 UTC
19 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Yeah, I understand. As of now when I report a comment from a user with a slur in their username, often it gets flagged as not violating the code of conduct. This is problematic not only for the issue we're currently running into with transphobic trolls using scripts and new accounts to follow users who post in trans subreddits, but in general it allows those accounts to stay around without us being able to do much about it.
The worst part is that these accounts will sometimes post content that looks "friendly" or "normal" but the account name makes it obvious that they're only making the comment at all so that their username is more highly visible. At the moment there's 0 way to fight against that for the majority of mods.
I thankfully have been able to talk with some RPAN administrators about this, so they can see what's going on, but this has been an issue for a long time now, so much so that some moderators have almost given up on the current reporting system.
Please note that I come at this from a place of love for the work your teams do. If I can do more for you at all, or provide my services in any way that could make this easier for you, I would absolutely do so, especially considering we do this moderation work for free.
If nothing else, thank you for reading and responding to my comment, I'm glad that you're working on it, and I'm glad that you're seeing the feedback.