What in the world?

[u/SquidsArePeople2]

This morning, the mods in my sub received a barage of hateful messages from a person who simply had a comment removed by out automoderator for not meeting karma requirements. Those messages included anti LGBTQ+ language, and clear threats of violence against us and LGBTQ+ people.

We reported those messages for harassment and threatening violence. I just received a message that the comments violated Reddit's content policy (duh). But the user was not banned or suspended. How in the world is that possible when other users get permanently banned for mundane things like reporting legitimately rule breaking content under the nebulous rule 8?

[u/SnausageFest]

Those people weren't permanently banned just for one instance of report abuse.

I don't know if there's anything that leads to an immediate permanent suspension. Maybe doxxing? Generally though, everyone gets a warning.

This is why you don't engage, just mute for 3-7 days, report and archive. If they do come back again, their cool down period is over and they will get another warning which should lead to at least a temp ban.

[u/maybesaydie → u/SnausageFest]

Death threats might lead to an immediate permanent suspension. Crimnal activity of any sort on the site will definitely result in a suspension.

[u/SnausageFest → u/maybesaydie]

Oh, my friend, how I wish that was my experience.

We had Spez on the team for an AAA. He was shocked at how often we were told to kill ourselves or other fairly heinous things, but nothing has really changed in the last ~20ish month since then.

Unless someone is like "I'm going to kill you, Alias McFakeName, at your house on 666 fake avenue!" - that's just now how it plays out.

[u/eatmyasserole → u/SnausageFest]

Super random, but i just read this news article this morning:

https://www.newser.com/story/361264/report-every-former-facebook-moderator-evaluated-had-ptsd.html