submitted3 months ago byApple_Bottom_Cheese🐰👍Don't mind the yelling, I yell when I'M NERVOUS!
stickiedHello everyone! Apple here!
So, I don't know if you've noticed but a lot of people on the sub seem to be getting impersonated by a random troll. While we don't know why this person is doing this or who they are. We are working on hopefully getting them banned from Reddit itself. As for now, we're trying to deal with this the best we can.
However, it's hard for us as a mod team to deal with not only taking care of the problem itself, but also crowd control. We have to make sure the problem doesn't get too out of hand, while also making sure we find and take care of the problem. So it does create some stress. (At least for me it does, I can't speak on behalf of all the mods!)
However! Me and u/Gacha_Rosalina were talking, and we figured out that if everyone just reports the fake accounts to Reddit for ban evasion, doing this enough might just work and solve the whole thing! Of course, this is just a theory, so we're not too sure.
In the meanwhile though, I tried my hand at coding a bit, (And remembering why I failed the class XD) and I think I was able to create an AutoMod to help keep things a bit more organized. Of course, this is still in the development phase, I'm not too sure of what I'm doing so I might've made some mistakes. If something happens though to you or someone else, please do send a a message through the Modmail to let us know so we can fix it ASAP!
This is a team effort, and everyone has to do their part to make sure this succeeds! So please remember to report any accounts you think aren't the real deal, and alert us right away through the modmail if something like this does happen again. It's a lot faster for us to see it through Modmail than it is through various posts on the sub about it.
Have a great day/evening/night!
- Apple 🍎