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Why not just block interaction then? Or better yet make it silently ignored, so they don't know they're blocked. That way they won't even think to harass using an alt either, which was another issue mentioned.
Edit: Really disappointed to see even mods using downvotes as an "I disagree" button, we're just having a conversation here.
Comment by Bardfinn at 20/12/2021 at 23:44 UTC
13 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Harassing using an alt must mean that all of that person's accounts get permanently suspended. It's the same behaviour and same TOS violation as ban evasion and suspension evasion.
It won't stop them from making alts and trying, but it will increase the economic cost to them to do so, and take the burden off their targets - who, until now, have had to bear the cost of documenting the harassment, reporting the harassment (including building a case linking every incident), and then escalating those improperly closed as not violating.
Now the dedicated harassers will go directly to sockpuppets - and in the process generate activity that can be detected by automated means.
No one arrives at /r/AgainstHateSubreddits (for example) to make their first comment on the site without being a ban evasion account. Other harasser groups have their own signatures of how they interact with the site before circling around again to continue their harassment. Those all are actionable. When one group is found to consistently be the "support group" for harassment sockpuppets that consistently target specific communities and users, that then returns to be the responsibility of those in the "support group". Those subreddits' moderators then have an incentive to identify and remove anyone using the subreddit to aid / abet harassment, or be positively identified as aiding / abetting the harassment.
Comment by justcool393 at 21/12/2021 at 00:06 UTC
-3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Because that's already how it works essentially and the admin seem to be dead set on a feature that increases harassment