Reddit monitors your DMs.

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[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

My account was suspended for a comment that I deleted literally immediately after posting it. Even stranger, it was several days later. Reddit is creepy and sad

[–]Brewdabier 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I never use DM, also when someone makes a comment like your a fucking idiot I will kill you. And you reply with any similar reply you will get banned. Now when some shit for brains has something negative to say I don't reply but report, keep mods busy.

[–]sproketboy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

If you connected with the same machine they match on mac address. Use a VPN.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Duh

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I don't think there's a way they can easily read them without a permalink. More likely that an automatic system detected a meanie word and flagged it.

[–]iDontShift 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

literally what monitoring means.

and yes they can easily read them.

what would prevent them? NOTHING

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

They would probably need to know the permalink.

Unless they have an external program I am an admin on this site and I've installed reddit myself, and to my knowledge there is no easy way to access PMs on either of them. You need to have the permalink. And I highly doubt they read through everything even if they did have a way, there's just too much.

[–]fatman 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

You really think a for-profit corporation running a closed source codebase with a fully manned crew of software engineers, data scientists, and infrastructure/monitoring teams can't figure out how to look at the plaintext bytes that they receive+store+send on behalf of a user?

[–]Vulptex 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No, but it's not convenient enough for them to check it all.

[–]fatman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I argue that it is convenient and easy to check them all. Fully automated at this point. Each message automatically goes through classification systems and if it stands out it gets flagged for manual review. Any contextual information from that message also gets saved into the persistent dataset they already have on you. Like giving you a hate score... I bet yours is over 9000!

[–]iDontShift 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

it is possible to create such tools. and it wouldn't be hard.

Unless they have an external program

well there ya go.

multi-billion dollar corp can afford to write a bot that even I can dream up and probably code in an aftenoon

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

If someone hits report on a PM it goes to the most junior of junior reddit admins, and they're reactionary. If you want to use reddit (gross) I'd avoid private messages.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Reddit is super fucked up.

[–]Jatz_Crackers 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

On Reddit you can post NSFW gore / killings but don't say anything or they'll get you for your comments.