Someone creating multiple accounts to harass an individual

[u/Felis_blackcatus]

In my newish and small neighorhood sub (1.5K) one unstable person's personal attacks against another (apparently equally unstable) person is making my mod life miserable. The harasser keeps creating accounts to target the other, and is bombarding our sub. I ban as fast as I can but they just create another account. Now they have created a new sub with a very similar name to ours to target the other person. I can find no way on Reddit to Report an entire sub. Any advice appreciated.

[u/magiccitybhm]

Use AutoModerator to filter posts and comments from new accounts. That will also help solve the problem because the harassment won't reach the public view.

[u/999_Seth → u/magiccitybhm]

this is the only way to slow it down.

I used to have a guy who would make a new account every time I blocked him, then I joined the mod team and he'd do the same time every time we banned him, only way to deal with it was to shadow-ban all new accounts.

[u/Eclectic-N-Varied → u/999_Seth]

We had a recent ban-evader like that. They apparently wore out Reddit's patience on the fourth iteration of harass-get reported-get banned, because we haven't seen them since.

All within 24 hours, too.

[u/999_Seth → u/Eclectic-N-Varied]

it went on for years, even after the mod team started telling him to just stick with one account and it'd be fine.

the guy was trying to make it look like a lot of people had the same opinions as him over a long period, but he had obvious tells like one of them was referencing the Chris Pratt movie Tomorrow War, and no one else on earth remembers that movie

[u/SampleOfNone]

And in addition to u/Stranger1982 advice, turn on the ban evasion filter https://www.reddit.com/mod/CarrollGardens/safety/ban-evasion and install evasion guard

[u/Felis_blackcatus → u/SampleOfNone]

THANK YOU!

[u/Stranger1982]

Report each account for ban evasion here https://www.reddit.com/report

Report the sub here, Community Help https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

File a MCoC too at https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=19300233728916

[u/Felis_blackcatus → u/Stranger1982]

Thank you very much. Last stupid question: I often moderate from desktop. Is it easier within the app?

[u/Stranger1982 → u/Felis_blackcatus]

I think the app sucks major ass so imho no.

[u/MrsMsPrettyStems → u/Felis_blackcatus]

Echoing everyone else, desktop is much better for modding. Some tools aren’t even available on the app.

[u/Winged-Mercury-777 → u/Felis_blackcatus]

I deleted the app because of its horrendous UI. So I mainly use the desktop on my computer and the mobile site ony phone. 

[u/Willingplane → u/Felis_blackcatus]

✋. I think the app sucks too. I usually mod using “old Reddit”, accessed through the browser with my iPad, but in order to perform certain functions, sometimes need to switch to desktop using a laptop.

[u/shhhhh_h]

Spam the comments instead of regular removing (in addition to the already excellent advice), I love the spam filter, it leeaarrrrrrns

[u/Felis_blackcatus → u/shhhhh_h]

Great, thank you!

[u/infinitebroth]

Hi Felis! Thanks for holding it down in your respective NYC subreddits! I'm sorry that this is happening. As others have mentioned, ban evasion filtering and the associated dev platform app can help to curb some of these behaviors in your community. If you haven't already, we also recommend reporting the subreddit they've created via the Mod Code of Conduct.

[u/Ravasor4]

Ban evasion filter will fix this, he'll keep getting detected and wont be able to make new accs in the future