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spamButton module is using a deprecated means of reporting spam, it should instead try to use reddit.com/report

Open import-that opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

This issue is present in RES v5.22.4 and presumably all previous versions.

The spamButton module (report to spam button) is effectively useless now as reddit no longer officially supports reporting spam by sending a private message to /r/reddit.com. As of approximately April 6, 2021, the automated response received after using the spamButton module reads:

Thank you for your report! We appreciate you sending this in, but we no longer use this system to handle these types
of reports. If you have an account and would like to report your issue please use our current report form
[here](http://www.reddit.com/report). If you don’t have an account, don’t worry, you can go [here] (https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new).

For account issues please visit [this article] (https://www.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045734511).

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If you experience difficulty using our current report form, such as not seeing an option for the issue you are trying
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Currently, there are many subjects a post or comment can be reported for with reddits vanilla report option, including spam. available vanilla reddit report options

However, reporting a post or comment via the vanilla report option sends the report to the moderation queue of the subreddit the post or comment is in; there is currently no documentation suggesting that any of these options also send the report to the admins. I'm making the assumption that reports sent via reddit.com/report are sent to the admins, which in the case of reporting spam would be more valuable of a feature than reports being sent to subreddit moderators, or as is presently done by the spamButton module, an unmonitored inbox. Ideally, using the spamButton module should simultaneously report spam to both the subreddit moderators and the admins.

reddit has seen a massive influx of malicious bots and spammers over the last several months (particularly related to cryptocurrencies), so I think it would be a good idea to update this module to support spam reporting forms that are actively monitored by the admins.

import-that avatar Apr 21 '21 07:04 import-that

Resolved in #5399.

ElijahPepe avatar May 01 '22 16:05 ElijahPepe