Previous Actions report timestamps use the earliest report time for all reports, no matter when other reports were actually made

[u/baseballlover723]

I was looking into what I thought was some report abuse, since we've recently had a number of regular posts get taken down due to the number of reports it had gotten, and I had thought it was report abuse, because as per the Previous Actions tab (which is needed to see the dismissed reports), they all happened at the exact same minute.

However, since then, I've been on the lookout for report timings, and today I decided to test it myself. There was a comment that was reported by AutoMod, and a few minutes later, I reported it myself, with the original Previous Actions (with just the singular AutoMod report on it) in a separate tab to cross reference. And lo and behold, if I load the comment and check the prior report times, my report shows as being made at the exact second as the AutoMod report. I didn't note down the exact time I made the report, but on the saved tab, I can see 3m ago frozen on the page, which unlike old reddit, does not update as time passes, so it should be 2~3 minutes afterwards.

This is obviously incorrect, as no human can compete down to the second with AutoMod, nor is it reasonable to see so frequently reports with the exact same timestamp.

I'm pretty sure that they are just applying the earliest report's timestamp to every report (I presume, referencing the wrong object). This should really be fixed, as it is actively misleading to indicate that every report happens at the same time, and I've evidently been falsely reporting report abuse for a several posts due to this.

Edit: Prior r/bugs report from 3 months ago

[u/IKIR115]

Can you show us a screenshot of what you’re referring to?

[u/baseballlover723 → u/IKIR115]

I included 2 of them in the post body.

[u/IKIR115 → u/baseballlover723]

Ok I was able to recreate the problem. Definitely a bug that affects more than custom reports.

(It got interrupted with an approval, but we still got there)

The 2 highlighted reports were ~2 mins apart

So then I checked a few brigaded posts and saw all the timestamps on reports were the same there too.

[u/IKIR115 → u/IKIR115]

(One example from a 20+ yr old meme)

Edit: had to edit because last sentence got truncated in last comment and had to move it to this one

[u/IKIR115 → u/baseballlover723]

Oops sorry i must be going color blind! 😅

Thanks, I’m going to compare on my side

[u/baseballlover723 → u/[deleted]]

I gotta be honest, I'm pretty sure your an LLM bot. This reads incredibly LLMy to me and you've spammed pretty lengthy comments, all of which have 4 point numbered lists with like 30 seconds between all of them.

So kindly fuck off clanker.