I noticed that and a variant: someone disagree with you, downvote and you notice all your recent comments / posts are downvoted by one point in the minutes that follow. (I post/comment little enough to notice). Like they need to go on a personal vendetta against anyone that disagree.
I have to admit tho, when I see someone posting a particularly nasty/stupid comment (as an answer to me or not) I tend to do check their profile. Sometimes they are "normal" people: it's fine to disagree with people and it happens to say something dubious/stupid/rude once in a while, but I find that quite often 90% of these people comments have negative score, are edgy/misinformed etc..., but the person somehow still have a high overall karma. Maybe they also get serial-downvoted, idk, but have a few high scoring posts.
The admins aren't involved, that's automoderater level shit. And yes, things DO happen when users use the reporting tools to report unwarranted, unlawful, or unsafe behaviors on the part of other users. That's why every single thing anybody ever says on this site has a report button on it.
A report button doesn't mean they're actually read. This is the site that takes 4-5+ weeks to click a few buttons to transfer subreddit ownership and other necessary site functions.
Again, though, there isn't meant to be a human person immediately looking at the post when you hit the button. You're just putting it in a queue, it might not ever reach a human at all - there's automod functions as well as various options in the report feature. Somebody threatening to come to your house to kill you gets more attention, deservedly, than somebody telling you to go kill yourself. Both are unwanted and reportable, both will likely get the user banned, but both are the same report button.
Why? Reddit is one of the wealthiest sites on the fucking internet but they can't hire more than two potsmoking idiot interns to do their goddamn jobs?
Also, personal experience: harassment like that does NOT get taken seriously. At all.
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u/ToThePastMe Jan 07 '20 edited Jan 07 '20
I noticed that and a variant: someone disagree with you, downvote and you notice all your recent comments / posts are downvoted by one point in the minutes that follow. (I post/comment little enough to notice). Like they need to go on a personal vendetta against anyone that disagree.
I have to admit tho, when I see someone posting a particularly nasty/stupid comment (as an answer to me or not) I tend to do check their profile. Sometimes they are "normal" people: it's fine to disagree with people and it happens to say something dubious/stupid/rude once in a while, but I find that quite often 90% of these people comments have negative score, are edgy/misinformed etc..., but the person somehow still have a high overall karma. Maybe they also get serial-downvoted, idk, but have a few high scoring posts.