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Safety and harassment isn’t handled well at all and is so arbitrary to the point of being useless. 3 exact same comments telling me to end my life all get reported, 2 of them came back with the default BS “we’ve found that the reported content doesn’t violate Reddit’s Content Policy” and only ONE came back with a successful violation and removal.
Clearly the people handling these don’t even know their own site’s rules.
Edit: Ironically someone nice awarded me *and* I got someone one else telling me to off myself[1] at the same time, the universe do be funny in balancing good and bad like that.
1: https://prnt.sc/2At8UdPpARd2
Comment by eleven_eighteen at 02/06/2022 at 20:45 UTC
20 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Remember the human is the first rule on the Reddit Content Policy page[1] but the people that handle reports sure don't seem to know that. So many reports come back with the "doesn't violate Reddit's Content Policy" spiel.
1: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy
I reported some posts recently where someone was calling for a witchhunt. They provided a news story about a crime, then named a person and posted pictures and said they were responsible. This was posted on a bunch of regional subreddits asking for help finding this person. But there was no mention of the person they were looking for in the article and there was no indication that the person had been identified as a suspect by law enforcement. So it was literally just some random internet person trying to enlist other random internet people to find someone.
Reported all the posts but they came back as "doesn't violate Reddit's Content Policy". Stalkers rejoice! You can enlist the help of the internet to find your prey with the full support of Reddit!
Comment by N8CCRG at 02/06/2022 at 20:22 UTC
16 upvotes, 1 direct replies
See also the "someone is worried about you" message being abused as a reddit-endorsed "kill yourself" fill in. I've reported them and gotten a reply that action was taken, but who knows what if anything was done. And from what I can tell many people who get those *don't* report them, and don't even know how.
Comment by Stone_Reign at 02/06/2022 at 22:52 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
None of the many times I've reported transphobic posts in years have ever resulted in action.
Comment by Ok_Detective101 at 02/06/2022 at 22:14 UTC
6 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Fully agree,i’ve reported multiple people for things like blatant racism towards whites and asians and yet I get messages that tell me they haven’t violated any of Reddits rules. I’m not sure if it’s auto moderated or if someone personally looks over those messages but it’s disheartening to see people who send death threats and racist rants get no punishment at all.
Comment by [deleted] at 03/06/2022 at 01:56 UTC*
3 upvotes, 0 direct replies
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Comment by Aggravating-Field887 at 03/06/2022 at 03:14 UTC
-2 upvotes, 2 direct replies
It’s the internet, why are you letting it get to you? If you can’t handle the 0’s and 1’s on here then you should probably spend your time doing something else like picking up a hobby.
If what other people are saying isn’t beneficial to your discussion then just ignore it.