An update on recent misuse of Reddit Cares Resources

Over the past few hours, we have been made aware of a significant uptick in the amount of Reddit Cares Resources that were incorrectly sent to users. First, we apologize for the upset this has caused. These resources should not be exploited, and we take abuse of this feature very seriously.

Secondly, we want you to know that we have identified the group that was spamming these resources maliciously to users. The team has been working hard over the last few months to reduce this sort of misuse from occurring, but today’s incident signaled that there was still a gap present. We have suspended this particular group’s accounts and are implementing fixes to prevent this from happening again.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1csrh1b/an_update_on_recent_misuse_of_reddit_cares/

via /r/conspiracy/ of all places:

https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1csm1q9/massive_influx_of_reddit_cares_messages/ (see sticky)