Several months long issues with brigading, harassment, hate, and gore
Hello all.
Please read this fully before suggesting the usual MCOC and Reddit's other report function.
For months, two of my subreddits, along with other subreddits we've been in communication with (due to being in the same niche/category/fandom) have been consistently reporting blatant site wide and MCOC rule-breaking by a singular subreddit.
This includes reports by mods of the subreddits being targeted and regular reddit users in our communities.
Despite all of our efforts to document and report, nothing is being done. They've even recently gone on to create a second subreddit in order to brigade and harass more communities within our niche.
We have installed as much as we can app/bot wise to help mitigate things, but it's coming to a point where we're all burnt out mentally from the neverending brigading and all the other god awful stuff which includes sending harassing personal messages to tell us to end our lives, wishing harm, slurs, and even sending gore via a comment on one of my subreddits.
Addtionally, every day they screencap posts from our communities, often uncensored or leaving icons uncensored so people know which community it is from. They use hateful language, flairs to imply we're subhuman, encouraging one another to harass us (yes, even the mods have done this), and even target the indivuals from our communities whose post they've screencapped to mock.
I should note that our communities are queer spaces.
The subreddit in question that is targeting two of mine, and also others within our niche, is an openly hateful, homophobic and racist space that actively targets "Queens Of ____" subreddits (as per their about section) and other queer or queer friendly spaces.
I'm honestly at a loss here. When my co-mod did finally speak to a human about what was happening, everything was dismissed because the mods of the hateful sub had since deleted things like their own comments calling to action for their members to brigade us, posting fully uncensored subreddit and user names in their hateful posts (mods included in this behaviour) which sent massive harassment and brigading to us and the member whose name was shown, ban showboating for themselves and others which became a game for their members to brigade and post vile things to get banned so they could share and gloat, and the list goes on. But, even if those posts were eventually deleted, the damage is done.
And this keeps happening.
What do we do from here? I had always been led to believe that subreddits created for the purpose to harass others on this platform and post hateful things, was not allowed?
Any advice would be truly appreciated because I'm at the end of my rope here. The things they say and do have been especially distressing-- not just for me and my co-mod, but for our members and also the other mods and their members whose communities are being targeted, too.
Edit: as of typing typing this post up in drafts for my co-mod to check, she reminded me that they have recently, as of a couple of days ago, created a third subreddit for the sole purpose of taking queer couple artwork from our communities in order to run them through AI to "fix them" and make them "straight" while mocking and calling us slurs.