Reddit's top user leaves platform after harassment
I am a freshman moderator of &#x2F;r&#x2F;portland.<p>I had thought working as a moderator would be a great way to help grow the subreddit&#x27;s base. Offer more useful real world interaction points and basically have a big impact on Portland.<p>Instead what I&#x27;ve found is that 99% of the time the moderators are dealing with bad actors and that has to be the primary focus to keep the sub from falling apart.<p>It isn&#x27;t just dealing with trolls or stepping into stopping out of control discussions.<p>It is actively performing anti-ban-evasion against people who are targeting the sub for disruption and then going after moderators that get in the way of these attempts.<p>There is at least one active case number with the Portland Police Department of a person that has both attempted to doxx our moderators and has gone to the home of a moderator and vandalized property repeatedly.<p>In this example, the person will not stop and creates new accounts every day.<p>While there are things Reddit can be doing to help, (such as improving tools to counter ban-evasion,) I think this problem is bigger than Reddit and focuses on lack of enforcement for digital actions that would qualify as genuine crimes of harassment if translated into the physical realm.