I started seeing more and more users use it to remove the posts that they don’t like.
For users, all they have to do is just report post to the sub mods and the post get removed. Regardless if it was actually against the rules or not.
As far as I know, mods cannot ban users from submitting reports, unless there is an option I don’t know.
Anyway, thought this is an interesting thing to share about the way Reddit works.
Edit: I got info from someone that the number of needed reports is 2.
“Reporting” a post or comment will not remove it. Mods of the group get a notification of what has been reported and then decide whether or not to remove it.
Reddit’s over all auto mod along with a group’s specific auto mod may remove a post or comment. When this happens NO one but the mods of the group will see it, and therefore it cannot be reported.
Mods can NEVER see who is making the “report”. However if the same user is constantly “reporting” stuff the mods will have an option to IGNORE all reports from them for a month.
In the past reddit’s site wide auto mod was not as extensive as it is now. And during that time something could be reported, an Admin would look at it, and then possibly remove it and ban the poster site wide. Admins never ban a user from a specific subreddit. All their bans are site wide.
This is what it looks like when a comment is removed. One by reddit auto mod and one by a group’s auto mod
