u/RS_Someone

I tried to use reddit.com/report, and it can't find my "primary" sub. Even if it could, I'm worried I will miss something important. In short, I moderate 7 communities that are essentially the same, and when a scammer gets banned from one, they get banned from all of them, but sometimes I find their new account on sub A and B, other times B and C, and sometimes just A, and so on. I'm not sure selecting just one sub will be enough.

Furthermore, I have some evidence I would like to attach that should help with confirmation that they are indeed the same person. For one scammer in particular, I have a chart/spreadsheet that helps to visualize the overlap in profiles and aliases they use. There are 29 accounts that have been banned from Reddit entirely, and another 14 that are not yet banned, 9 of which are active in other communities. Some communities have absolutely refused to ban them, despite presenting their mods with a mountain of evidence, so I want to try to remove the active accounts for good.

For example, 15 of his accounts link to one particular ArtStation portfolio, and of those, 8 have posted a second ArtStation portfolio. From the accounts using the second portfolio, one can identify at least 7 more accounts, repeating for other portfolios until you can be confident that at least 43 accounts are the same person. Most of these portfolios have artwork stolen from at least half a dozen sources and they claim them as their own, meaning they could also possibly be nabbed for Impersonation or Manipulated Content.

Should I just try reddit.com/report for the second most active sub and hope for the best, or would admins prefer I link to each name in r/ModSupport ModMail with some attached evidence and a list of related communities I moderate? Or something else, perhaps?

I fight scammers. I've picked up 7 art commission communities to help the fight. I've made guidelines, filters, and guides on how to stay safe, and communicate with neighboring mods to help get rid of the **hundreds** of scammer accounts I've found and banned.

But there are a few communities that have been hard to reach, and now that the scammers have recognized that they're not safe in my communities, they have been focused even more on these other communities, and it seems like there's nothing I can do.

So, I've made a wiki page that outlines the differences in various communities that I recommend, as I can vouch for their relative safety over others like it, but... can I warn others that a specific few communities may be more prone to scammer presence? I've identified 15 scammers in one community in particular, which were all active within the last month. (Realistically, it's 3 friends, but 15 of their accounts.)

My goal here is not to harm those communities, or even to suggest that they're bad in any way, but under Rule 3, it says:

>As a moderator, you cannot interfere with or disrupt Reddit communities, nor can you facilitate, encourage, coordinate, or enable members of your community to do this.

My intention is to keep people safe, but if I officially tell users that I do not recommend these communities for their own safety, could I get into trouble for it?

I've seen a few users get bombarded by spam reports, and despite doing the same as most other people in the community, and having their content approved, they had soon become shadowbanned. I've reported the reports for report abuse, but it didn't help. So I'm wondering...

Does being reported affect an account, even before it's actioned? If so, does this apply to AutoMod? I have some extensive "checks" that cause a good number of comments to be flagged, which are normally approved, but I'd hate to cause our community members to be negatively affected because of it.