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View submission: Safety update on Reddit’s follow feature
I’m glad this is being prioritized, but I have to echo concerns that the short term solutions presented are…not great. There’s a coordinated harassment campaign going on against a vulnerable population, and turning off notifications and blocking is both not simple to do (afaik, you can’t even see your follower list on desktop at all, requiring the Reddit mobile app) and doesn’t do anything to prevent the people behind these accounts from stalking profiles at will for further harassment. I hope the timeframe for more permanent solutions is relatively quick.
Thanks for commenting on this, these followers have been consistent and disgusting.
Comment by EmeraldPen at 15/07/2021 at 03:23 UTC
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I’d also add that the blocking option **is specifically not a solution at all** to this particular harassment campaign, which doesn’t require interaction between the harasser and their target since the abusive message is carried in the username.
By the time you’re blocking abusive followers, they’ve already forced you to see/read their username. The fact that it’s even suggested as a patchwork solution is ridiculous.