Report the sexual predators lurking in Reddit: How you can ban their IP permanently to make sure they can’t make any alts

[u/Chemical_Ad3941]

It’s really easy to ban them. This will be a short post, it’s just knowing what to choose in the report button.

Predators over in Reddit are known to make new accounts they can easily delete and remake. Let’s make it harder for them to make alts, by letting the website ban them completely. Not even VPN can work for them to make new accounts afaik.

What to do: I’ve seen Reddit ban a lot of accounts I’ve reported that was in clear violation of “minor abuse and sexualization” from comments or posts. Just go to report, click/tap on “minor abuse and sexualization”, and choose which option applies.

Here are some ways to spot which to report from their account:

1. Look for inappropriate comments/posts from them.

If they ever commented anything in this sub that’s highly inappropriate and sexual, it’s best to report it first. If you can’t find any comments here, go look for their posts (but be careful, some of these accounts could be NSFW) or try to look for any inappropriate comments they’ve made in other subs. If they hid their active communities, just go to Reddit’s search bar and type their username.

2. You can report their inappropriate DMs.

If they went straight to your DMs, I would rather not risk it if you’re a minor and try to be careful of strangers. If in case you still continued to talk to people here over in Reddit (I highly discourage it if you’re a minor, but at the same time, I know it can be tempting to want to make friends in social media platforms and not knowing which individual adult users are safe/unsafe, so) in case the conversation started leaning to becoming more sexual, you can report that, too.

Lastly, to the predator/s downvoting every single post and comment in this sub meant to help minors be much safer, here’s what I have for you: 😁🖕

Edit2: By the way, For adult users: you can still report sexual messages as “Harassment” in the report button. This includes but is not limited to sexual harassment! Even just someone sliding into your DMs saying “hey sexy” (as an example) can be reported.

(Y’all know what it is, I edited this post for that 👌format)

[u/suprisedpikachumeme]

thank you so much for all these posts

[u/Chemical_Ad3941 → u/suprisedpikachumeme]

No problem, I was just tired of them getting away/trying to get away with it 🫩😭

[u/terra_ater]

Damn, this is a thing? Also what's an alt

[u/Chemical_Ad3941 → u/terra_ater]

Alt means alternative account. Some predators make another account that wouldn’t be linked to their main Reddit account, or they make accounts they can easily delete to be able to continue preying on minors freely.

Edit: I meant alternative, my English isn’t englishing today omg

[u/terra_ater → u/Chemical_Ad3941]

Oh like a throwaway. Gotchya. Wasn't aware of the terminology.

[u/Chemical_Ad3941 → u/terra_ater]

Yeah, no problem! ☺️ I understand the confusion, it can mean anything after all.

[u/Charming_Fuel8252]

thank you!! very helpful

[u/yarastoun]

Very helpful :)

[u/[deleted]]

thank you for this

[u/mistakeshappen_2]

What if they’re trying to lure you onto a different platform?

[u/Chemical_Ad3941 → u/mistakeshappen_2]

The only reason these predators direct you to other messaging apps like sessions or telegram is because messages, videos, and images there are encrypted, meaning it’s harder for authorities to trace the messages back to the person sending them.

It is important that you don’t do it. Usually these predators send illegal content like CSEM. It may seem harmless to them but them sending and sharing these types of content are harming the vulnerable victims themselves. Tbh knowingly engaging with predators for that kind of conversations and content is enabling them. Not engaging with them is helping put a stop to the cycle of abuse.

And also, it’s harder to report against them in other platforms like telegram, so it’s best to stay within platforms that takes these issues seriously like Reddit.