• CarolinaBlues@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    They gave my twelve-year account a three week ban for reporting bots.

    “Report abuse” for reporting comment stealing bots, as we were told to do! Insane… unless you want plenty of active bots.

    • Chetzemoka@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I got the exact same treatment for “report abuse” for reporting a comment copying bot. Like, ok. If you want Reddit to be nothing but spam bots parroting each other, have at it

    • Sparking
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      1 year ago

      I couldn’t even start reporting all the only fans bots that started following me. That’s got to be a sign of a failing platform when you can’t report people.

      The backend of reports is that they try to automate handling them, and then staff people to respond to the o es that can’t be automated. So I guess the logic is that you can cut staffing costs if people can’t report things. Of course, you had reports for a reason.