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scruffychef33 karma

ITT: fake accounts, people calling out fake accounts, fake accounts responding in progressively nastier ways to those call outs. This is reddit /u/Original_Six we know that you've populated an AMA with a crapload of mouthpieces, getting snarky about it and dodging the questions just makes you look like children covering your ears and screaming "LALALALA." you could have just typed up the planted questions under FAQ and people wouldnt be downvoting the shit out of you for gaming the system. as harsh as this is, if these are the type of strategies you used in the 80's im not surprised you failed to change anything. In future, why not be honest with your legitimate and worthwile cause? Why destroy your credibility with underhanded and dishonest tactics like this?

scruffychef21 karma

Youre nitpicking and looking for a fight. OP has made it more than clear with her various comments that she doesnt have a problem with stripper or "exotic dancers" as she used to be one. Why are you so intent on starting conflict?

scruffychef10 karma

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but putting the onus on the victim to report their harassment doesnt seem unreasonable at all. Short of giving big tech a free pass to read our communications, how else would the harasser be identified? You need to speak up if you face harassment, not reporting it, especially in online forums where a ban or block could work, is frankly self defeating. I'm not asking a rape victim to give a detailed account of their fresh trauma, I'm expecting people to use the tools available to report their harassers. If you cant be bothered to even report the problem how the hell do you expect to see it solved?

scruffychef3 karma

How does one play a wind instrument in an orchestra without spewing potential covid air all over everyone? Are there filtered muffles or something ?

scruffychef1 karma

While I've never experienced cyber harassment, I can say that I would document such things as a matter or course if I was trying to defend myself. If you're going to make claims you need to have evidence, especially if the police get involved. While caretaking for an apartment complex in a bad neighborhood I lost time to the documentation, waiting for resources or services, etc. Its part of defending yourself against garbage people, have evidence of their garbage nature so they cannot try to flip it and play the victim.

Multiple accounts, media etc is still easy to block/report/flag as inappropriate etc built into the UI. Facebook, twitter, reddit and Instagram all allow you to essentially click on a message or profile and immediately see the report and or block buttons. The OP mentions not wanting to block people because it can be played up by the blocked individual, who the hell cares? to block people effectively you're not just blocking the first jerk to brigade you, you block all of them.

Choosing to not block the people who actively harass you is self harm. You're the one choosing to let them have a voice in your life at that point. Block them, block the pop up up followers, and stop dipping your toe in the toxic pool. Get a nasty message/dick pic? Block. Get friend requests from puppet profiles with dead relative's names? BLOCK. The time it takes per message is negligible, and each block means less comes in to deal with.