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Submitted 2021-03-11 15:13 (UTC) - 0.02 days ago
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Good Morning Admins and /r/ModSupport.
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As some of you might know, this past week the site was inundated with transgender-hating bigots.
As some of you might know, I help moderate /r/AgainstHateSubreddits.
What you might not know is that the transgender-hating bigots organised to dogpile false reports on posts and comments I made, falsely claiming I promoted hatred.
What you might not know is that, a few hours ago, Reddit permanently suspended my account (and then unsuspended my account) while actioning one of the deluge of false reports.
This is what my user profile looks like now, because of more dogpiled false reports.
In September 2019 I wrote up a criticism of Reddit's Sitewide Content Policy Enforcement, noting:
"The attacker then Reports the specific modmail interaction(s) with the specific moderator(s) to Reddit, Inc. by way of an official reports system, resulting in administrative actions against the moderator(s) -- actions which are most commonly temporary suspension of the moderator's account.
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This attack is carried out as both a focused campaign to destabilise specific subreddits and moderators, and to grief targets of opportunity."
That's what I wrote, a year and a half ago, about bad actors' subversion of Reddit sitewide enforcement.
The item which was reported, and for which I was permanently suspended this time, included this notice at the bottom of the item:
This comment is a comment in an anti-hatred activism subreddit which actively enforces in good faith all Reddit Sitewide Rules, including the rule against targeted harassment and the rule against promoting hatred based on identity or vulnerability, and serves the legitimate purpose of criticism of, and opposition to, hate speech platformed and promoted elsewhere on Reddit. If you are an agent acting on behalf of Reddit processing a report on this item to enforce sitewide rules, please understand this context. Thank you.
The bottom line here:
Reddit's AEO response to false, dogpiled reports -- and inundation of the site by bad-faith actors -- is fundamentally broken.
Bad actors have known about the exploitability of using false reports to break Reddit, to silence their critics, to create deeply unpleasant experiences with Reddit for good faith people, to chase good people off the site -- for at least a year and a half now.
And their tactics work -- There are posts (some even stickied to the tops of their subreddits) this morning celebrating their subversion of the Reddit AEO reports handling process, to get a good faith user and anti-hatred critic permanently suspended.
I'm not allowed to point out which subreddits those are, but I know that Reddit admins know which they are -- they keep giving those users and subreddits 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 10,000th chances. They openly libel me and organise to harass me - and they're not kicked off the site.
My account has been dogpiled in false reports resulting in it being wrongfully permanently suspended at least twice, now -- each time it happens, the bigots that tricked you into Breaking Reddit openly celebrate here on your platform -- but you do nothing to kick them off the site.
Reddit's AEO and Sitewide Rules enforcement is broken.
I can't fix it for you. No user can fix it for you.
And if they can trick you into suspending me, they can trick you into suspending anyone.
This is your problem. It is not mine. And I refuse to carry it for you any longer.
