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Reddit harassment removal.

Harassment is a pattern. The response is a documented case, not a stack of angry reports.

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This is for you if

Sound familiar?

  • 01

    You are being followed from community to community by the same accounts.

  • 02

    Threats, slurs or repeated personal attacks are aimed at you.

  • 03

    A group is encouraging others to pile on.

  • 04

    The abuse extends to your staff or family.

How Reddit handles this

What actually decides the outcome.

01

Safety before anything else

If you are in immediate danger, contact local emergency services first. Threats of violence and stalking can be police matters as well as platform matters. A Reddit report is not a substitute for that.

02

What the Rules say

Reddit Rule 1 says everyone has a right to use Reddit free of harassment, bullying and threats of violence. Rule 3 prohibits instigating harassment, for example by revealing someone's personal or confidential information. Pew Research found in 2021 that 41% of U.S. adults have experienced online harassment and a quarter have experienced its more severe forms, so the pattern is common and reviewers understand it.

03

Documenting it so it can be actioned

Harassment is a pattern, and patterns are proven with records. A dated list of every abusive post and comment, each with its permalink, username, community and screenshot, is what turns several angry reports into one case a reviewer can act on. We build that record, file it at the right level, and follow up.

How we handle it

Our route, step by step.

  1. 01

    Prioritise safety

    Threats of violence and stalking are handled first and may need police contact alongside platform reports.

  2. 02

    Build the record

    Every link, screenshot, date and account, in order.

  3. 03

    Report on multiple levels

    Content reports, account reports and community-level reports, each with the same evidence file.

  4. 04

    Reduce future exposure

    Guidance on privacy settings, tracking new accounts and what to do if it resumes.

Every step is logged.

Each action on your case is recorded with its date. You can read the log at any time in your client portal, and reply to us there.

The rulebook

Reddit rules that apply.

Harassment is judged on the pattern. These are the two rules we rely on most in harassment cases.

  • Rule 1

    Remember the human

    This is the core rule for targeted abuse: bullying, threats of violence and pile-ons. Dates, usernames and every instance matter, because patterns are what reviewers act on.

  • Rule 3

    Respect the privacy of others

    Posting someone's details so others will harass them is often the most serious form of harassment. We treat the personal details as a separate item in the report, with their own evidence.

Paraphrased from the official Reddit Rules. Moderators also enforce each community's own rules, under Reddit's Moderator Code of Conduct.

By the numbers

What the data shows.

Large surveys show how common online harassment is, and why a pattern of incidents is taken more seriously than one remark.

  • 41%

    of U.S. adults have experienced online harassment

    A quarter report more severe forms such as physical threats, stalking, sexual harassment or sustained harassment. Survey of 10,093 adults.

    Source: Pew Research Center, The State of Online Harassment · Survey of September 2020, published January 2021

Legal background

The law behind it.

Court case · U.S. Supreme Court · 2023

Counterman v. Colorado

600 U.S. 66 (2023)

A man sent a woman a large number of unwanted Facebook messages and was convicted of stalking under an objective "reasonable person" standard. The Court held that to punish "true threats", the state must prove the speaker had some subjective understanding of the threatening nature of the statements. Recklessness is enough.

Why it matters here: Online threats can be pursued without proof of a specific intent to carry them out. A documented pattern of warnings and replies helps show that the speaker was aware of how the messages would be received.

Court case · U.S. Supreme Court · 2015

Elonis v. United States

575 U.S. 723 (2015)

Anthony Elonis posted violent, rap-style messages on Facebook about his estranged wife and others. The Court held that a conviction under the federal threats statute (18 U.S.C. § 875(c)) cannot rest on how a reasonable person would see the words alone, and that a mental state is required. It did not decide whether recklessness suffices.

Why it matters here: Whether a post counts as a criminal threat depends on the speaker's state of mind as well as the words. For a platform report, the rules on threats and harassment are usually the faster tool.

Real public cases

How it has played out.

A public example of Reddit reviewing harassment, and what it did about it.

Public case · 2015 · not a client of ours

2015: Reddit bans five communities under its anti-harassment policy

Type
Community-level enforcement for harassment
Where
r/fatpeoplehate and four smaller subreddits
What happened
Members of r/fatpeoplehate, which had more than 150,000 subscribers, were reported to harass individuals inside and outside the community, including on other subreddits and sites.
What was done
On June 10, 2015, Reddit banned five communities that it said allowed their members to use the subreddit as a platform to harass individuals when moderators did not act. Its stated position: "We're banning behavior, not ideas."
Outcome
The five communities were removed from Reddit.
What it teaches
A whole community can be removed, but the test is behaviour toward specific individuals, not whether people dislike what it says.

Public case · 2013 · not a client of ours

A false name on Reddit: the 2013 Boston Marathon misidentification

Type
False accusation of a private individual
Where
Reddit, April 2013
What happened
After the Boston Marathon bombing, users speculated about suspects online. A popular Reddit post falsely named Sunil Tripathi, a missing Brown University student. His family received abusive messages.
What was done
Reddit's general manager publicly apologised, saying activity on the site had "fueled online witch hunts and dangerous speculation" with "very negative consequences for innocent parties."
Outcome
Reddit itself acknowledged the harm.
What it teaches
Naming a private person as a suspect or wrongdoer, without proof, sits squarely within Reddit Rule 1 (harassment) and Rule 3 (privacy). Speed and evidence matter because false claims spread before they can be corrected.

The outcome

What success looks like.

  • 1

    The posts and comments are removed

    Each item reports as a removal notice, such as "[removed]" or "Removed by moderator", in place of the abusive text.

  • 2

    The account stops

    Where Reddit acts on the account as well, the profile stays online with the username "[deleted]" and is marked as banned.

  • 3

    You have a record

    The evidence we collect, with dates and usernames, stays on your case. If the harassment continues, it is the start of the next report.

Before you do anything

Mistakes that make it harder.

  • Responding in public

    Public replies feed the pile-on and make it harder to show who started it.

  • Losing the evidence

    Posts can vanish when the poster deletes them. Save screenshots with dates while they are live.

  • Reporting without a timeline

    Harassment is judged on pattern. A dated list carries more weight than a single link.

While we work

You see every step.

Sign in with a one-time code sent to your email. Follow the case, reply to us, add links and evidence, and read your invoice there. The invoice is issued only after removal.

How it works

What we need

Send us this.

  • Links to every abusive post and comment
  • Usernames involved
  • Dates and communities
  • Any off-Reddit contact or threats

Case studies

Related case studies.

Questions

About reddit harassment removal.

Is harassment against Reddit's rules?

Yes. Reddit's content policy prohibits harassment and bullying. Whether a specific case meets the standard is assessed by Reddit.

What if it is happening off Reddit as well?

We can still handle the Reddit side. Serious threats should also be reported to the police and to any other platform involved.

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