When I get messages on social media, I’m not sure if someone’s trying to fake it to trick me, when I get a link sent my way I don’t want to click on it directly, because I don’t know if they’re trying, you know, get my IP. This has been actually a nightmare to deal. GallowBoob, whose real name is Robert Allam, told The Daily Dot that he has received "death threats and hacking attempts against him." As a result, he plans to "step back from the site." After this, I am personally done with supporting the platform when it doesn’t support us back or doesn’t do enough to safeguard our security. We expect our users and moderators to abide by our site-wide rules and will continue to take action against anyone breaking these rules. Regardless of how you feel about certain people on Reddit, it is 100% against our policies to threaten them. However, this situation has gone far past the point of criticism and is now generating targeted harassment of numerous people, some of whom are concerned for their physical safety. Respectful discussion is allowed and will not be removed. While in general, individuals (whether they are mods, admins, or regular people using Reddit) are not above reproach when it comes to criticism. We're seeing an unacceptable amount of large-scale harassment being directed at these people. " These posts have been getting traction across multiple subreddits for the past few days. On May 16th, another subreddit, /r/opposinggallowboob was banned for violating "Reddit's content policy against harassing content" (screenshot below, right).įollowing the /r/therewasanattempt post, Reddit administrator sodypop responded to the post saying that they were seeing "an unacceptable amount of large-scale harassment being directed at. For example, a subreddit calling for the removal of moderator Gallowboob, who is also Reddit's top user (screenshot below, left). The list spurred a backlash against the mods listed. The post received more than 115,000 points (92% upvoted) and 6,200 comments in less than one week. Two days later, Redditor BruhMoment posted the list on the /r/ThereWasAnAttempt subreddit.
On May 12th, Redditor rootin-tootin_putin posted the list in the /r/ThatsInsane, which received more than 13,000 points (99% upvoted) and 600 comments in less than two weeks. On April 1st, Redditor Slimeyzilla shared the list on the /r/ conspiracy subreddit, receiving more than 2,100 points (97% upvoted) and 200 comments in less than two months. Over the next two months, Redditors continued to share the list of moderators.
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