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Same here.
You sound depressed. Do you need help?
STOP
All caps indicates you may be experiencing excessive anger and lack of self-control. We care.
The RedditCareTM bot will disregard your irrational refusal for help and send a RedditCareRapidResponseTeamTM to your last know IP address for an intervention.
Do not be afraid, the RedditCareProbeTM bot will be gentle.
Interesting, I thought this was because of a recent comment I made that someone took great offence to.
This care message thing needs to stop. 99% of cases it's just people "reporting" people they disagree with, anonymously telling them to kill themselves. At the very least, it should be possible to report it as abuse when someone abuses the function.
Absolutely ridiculous, and in actuality it is used as the very opposite as what it was designed to.
Then realize that the the "help" care messages is useles to about 36% of Reddit user base as they only provide support for US, Canada and UK, and it shows how useless the care function is.
Mind you it's possible to report those messages as harrassmente targeted at you.
Reddit even replies back claiming to have taken actions against the sender...
Reddit should just discontinue that stupid reddit cares message. It's basically only ever used to harass.
Seriously. If I was suicidal (I'm not but, I'm sure I'll still get the message anyway), an automated stock message like that from some anonymous person on the internet with zero indication of what comment its avctuall about would definitely not matter to me.
They really just need a way to report someone using the function to harass.
Troubled people talk about suicide but many suicidal people don’t actually talk about it. Not all. But many.
You’re right though not sure a bot message is going to do much….
What a comment about the reddit community, eh?
they would but it would make them look bad
I think there also might be one down voting everything. I'm seeing a shit load of posts lately with negative down votes
Yeah I got a random one yesterday.
same lmfao I was so confused
Me too.
Same. I tried to find a way to report it as spam, but I had no idea what poster reported me based on what so I couldn't fill out the form..... so annoying.
I got that yesterday. I got a warning today for abusing it. I've never reported anyone.
Me too. They crack me up.
yep, it's how the easily offended harass people without breaking reddit rules. If I make an opinionated comment that doesn't violate rules, someone can report that comment for categories covered by Reddit Cares, and regardless of the original content, they will get bot spam in their inbox saying how someone was concerned.
It seems like it stopped for awhile, but is picking back up again, i'm not sure if the ones using the report button forgot about it or if there was a problem with the bot.
Yeah, they have me under suicide watch, thanks to a concerned redditor! W T F
I got one 2 days ago. I don’t get how they meant to harass you though? They’re just random and bizarre.
Maybe whoever sends those messages is trying to anonymously tell people to "go commit die" or something like that?
Yeah because we all base such irreversible decision on what anonymous people say
Same here. I went back and looked through my comments to see if I'd posted anything offensive or controversial. Lol
Same
Pretty sure I blocked that a while ago. 25 years ago I suffered from major depression and extensive treatment and sometimes when it’s relevant I will reference that experience in comments and people were sending me that. And some people abused it lol. Anyway I got tired of it. It was a quarter century ago, I’m well out of those woods tyvm 😅
I got one yesterday.
I've got a few before and it always weirded me out as some weird way to make a threat by implying your life is in danger.
The system is apparently being exploited and there are no current safeguards against that.
Just got my first one today and I honestly don't know what comment was reported.
Everyone is getting in the past 24 hrs, saw dozens of comments edited to say they received care msg
Yea I got mine yesterday and was honestly a bit worried that I said something really bad somewhere
Same. I’m not sure how though
Same. Then stressed about it until I did the research.
Same, good to know.
Lol, I got mine, but I had just been talking shit. So now I'm really confused whether I offended someone or it was a bot.
not me. did I win reddit?
I got 1 other one a month ago, and another 3 months ago. 1 yesterday like the rest. It seemed like a bot account as i reported it.
I literally went through my comments thinking, “hmmm, who was I the biggest bitch to that seems like an ass who would do that.”
Now I see it’s happening to a LOT of people so there’s maybe just a handful of harassers.
I'm pretty sure the consensus right now is that its a bot(s) indiscriminately flagging users. Just because it is so wide spread and seemingly random.
I figured out my comment that was flagged was simply suggesting drinking Ensure/Boost in the morning as a good way to help gain weight and get enough calories for breakfast. So not concerning or controversial at all lol.
lol same hahaha
Literally huh? 🙄🙄🙄
oh babe, do you need to know Reddit Cares? bc it seems like you’re having a DAY to take the time to roll your eyes at me using the word literally (which, btw, I used correctly…)
Honestly it just goes to show that Reddit is taken over by bots and the admins are doing nothing to stop it.
I reponded in an ask reddit thread that i had never heard of some popular youtube guy, and my comment got reported three times to reddit cares.
I can't confirm it was that comment, but I'm 75% sure that's the one.
How dare i not know every streamer's name
Well, the safeguard is presumably to report the message and they take action against who/what ever is exploiting the system, right?
Just block the reddit bot lol.
There is a good discussion here over on r/OutOfTheLoop. Looks like some weirdness going on with how reddit care messages work.
Thank you for sharing!
No worries, I got one too. There is a report button built into the message to report who sent you the message (not sure how well that works)
Got one yesterday. Reddit might care but I don't!
Reddit doesn't care, they just want to appear like they do.
at least for the legal optics
"why didn't reddit do anything after 9Username) was posting concerning comments?"
with this, they can at least say "we can't catch every comment or know which ones to take seriously, but if you see something it will trigger an automated message that reaches out to the individual with resources"
I wish it showed which message they reported it against so i could determine if it's 100 BS or if I accidentally posted something that sounds suicidal (which is possible, I have a dark sense of humor).
Is there some way to see that?
I asked my friend who's been on reddit for years when I got the dm and friend said that they have to go into your profile to report you for that so it's linked to your profile not a specific comment. people mentioning that they got it based on a certain comment are speculating due to the timing of the dm vs when their comment was made
It can be either. You can go via a profile to report that someone needs help, or report a post/comment—"self harm / suicide" is one of the site-wide report categories alongside stuff like harassment, threats, copyright violation, or doxxing.
oh thanks for more info on that!
I see, thanks
it's baked into the regular report button now, you go to where you would normally report a comment, and it's the option near the bottom
I got this message after posting about chatgpt: "I've been using it since (this date), and it solved a lot of my problems, and now I can imagine my life without it". I guess bot just got confused or something
As much as it sucks to say this, I'm actually really relieved I'm not the only one who got that PM.
Hahaha same here, it was my first reddit care
Same! And my anxiety brain was like "oh shit, they're watching" 👀
I got one yesterday after I posted about invisalign. I was very confused why someone reported me. This does make me feel better
I got one for saying I don’t play Fortnite. Seems really random and everyone is getting them on every sub.
Yeah, I got one too. Just replied STOP to block it.
As someone who had a hard week it came as a strange feeling.
It makes me feel like I have friends. A warm hug from the Reddit bot.
🫂
Yeah, I got one too. I thought it was kind weird.
I thought I particularly offended someone. Good to know it isn't just me.
I got one for saying that Trump should be named “Piles Davis” because if it’s cool to shit your pants…
Similar to the time I got a down vote on everything in my post history. I seem to have survived.
Geez it seems like there is some kind of troll army raiding the Reddit community; this is the third post on this issue I’ve seen in less than 10 minutes of being on this subreddit.
I’ve heard maga is doing it because they’re pansies
No, they’re busy buying golden diaper covers.
I got one yesterday
I got one yesterday too
And I can’t report it…it’s very annoying
I just blocked the bot.
I did too
I did too…
Yeah I got one recently, but I have no idea why or what comment. Other people seem to be able to know what comment was reported, but I only have guesses. It didn't tell me.
Because bitches have been particularly salty as of late it seems
What?
People of low moral character have been perturbed as of late
Oh the Salty ass Morton's girl. My favorite!
Cause of trolls
IS there a way to figure out what comment triggered this message?
Just an indication that I pissed some asshat off who doesn’t have the courage to post a comment in reply.
A very puerile, if not juvenile act.
I got one
I got one but how does everyone know what comment it’s for? Mine didn’t say
They just match the time to their recent comment. I don't know either because I made several comments around that time..
I’m got one yesterday saying I should be in a watchlist for having an opinion in the “You” subreddit
I got one first thing this morning and had zero clue why, I haven't posted anything too crazy in a long while.
yeah i got one too after reading all the posts about it
I tried to block that damn bot and it wouldn’t let me.
I got my first one too, thought maybe it's because in the UK it's mental health awareness week.
I got mine yesterday
I got one yesterday, I had assumed it was because I of a comment I had just posted
I got one, but thought someone was using the feature to be…kind of an ass because right before I got it someone didn’t like advice I had offered and went off on me so I chalked it up to misuse of a feature by an irrational user.
I feel left out
I got one today,i don't known why,that someone concerned about me....But i didn't comment anything concerning.
Because a post gained a bunch of traction complaining about the feature, so I think somebody took that as an opportunity to troll and kicked off some bots.
Yeah, and I do occasionally get heated, but yesterday when i got the care msg hadn’t said anything not mundane. No idea which comment it was for
Odd, I just got a reddit don't care. Like it said it doesn't care about me 😐
I kid ofc.
Yeah I've seen a few posts related to this and got one yesterday a couple minutes after disagreeing with a "cannabis strains are useless" post. Weird
Same here
So glad I denied getting those.
I got one for making a joke at Drake's expense.
Bro I got one after bagging on drake too.
I've blocked that message from coming through.
I thought it was only me! I told the bot to fuck off.
I guess it doesn't care about me :(
I almost laughed because I made a wholesome comment on a post about body types saying anyone that hugs me and cares, and suddenly I got one of those and thought it was funny someone thought a man who doesn’t only want one thing wasn’t “ok”
No idea...
Yeah, its like swatting now
I got my first one today idk what it was about
I got one too
Because they haven't blocked that bot yet.
I got one too! I didn't know I wasn't the same
I went through my history posts to see what the hell could have made them think I'm not okay X)
Okay, today it’s my turn to be ignorant. What is a “Reddit care message”?
A message in your inbox from Reddit saying that someone thought you needed help, with links to resources
Because they forgot to reply stop to them a long time ago
I got mine after saying that the Rotten Tomato critic scores are bullshit these days. I thought it was a prolific RT reviewer feeling salty lol
That's for Reddit admins to answer
its mental health awareness week.
i thought some jackass reported me for saying im dead inside but still horny.
I got one yesterday I wish it would tell you what its for
I've been getting a couple within the past 48 hours and I'm basically just leaving normal comments
I got one for this stupid post, and I didn't even write it yet!!!
Yeah its quite annoying.
I got 2 today! I unsubscribed 😂
I got one for no reason too but I'm glad bc I've always been curious what's in them. I see there's a crisis hotline number to text. I'm always curious about how effective crisis hotlines are for people who need them.
Lmao I was wondering the same thing, glad to know it’s not just me
I got one for disparaging the CCP
Yep.
idk but its annoying
Because Reddit MF’n cares!
Thought it was just me ! Was like wtf haven't said anything remotely nearing needing help . Didn't know people used this to disagree . It's an anonymous forum and you still can't just say that you disagree and why . Blows my mind.
SOMEONE FUCKING DISABLE THIS RIPE FOR ABUSE FEATURE OR I SWEAR ILL FICKING KILL MYSELF.
so, now reddit devs have to disable it or it's their fault when I swallow 2 Imodium.
I got one too yesterday. No idea why.
I got my first reddit care message last night after commenting on a post in this subreddit.
I’m happy somebody cares! .“D
This might be a stupid question but why are people getting upset or offended for receiving one? Are there negative consequences for receiving one?
No, it's a way to anonymously annoy someone that upset you, done by people on the wrong end of the Bell Curve.
I've gotten them before twice and appreciate them
Thanks. I thought I said something, but couldn’t figure out what .
I haven’t received one, but I was already saved by Thanos.
OP please tell me if you got a surge of reddit cares messages after this post 🎤
Drake fans are pissed
got one yesterday. so annoying. I replied STOP as suggested. Reddit has a lot of problematic features, such as having to wait 20 days to post on some subs. jesus, its ridiculous
I assumed it was a scam.
It's being botted or something. I just blocked the reddit care user.
I got one recently for presenting objective facts to a conspiracy theorist. Apparently I was the one who needed help.
That's odd. Usually the conspiracy theories are downvoted at alarming rates until the OP is blocked from responding for an arbitrary time period. You probably all received Reddit cares messages. We can't have people debating free and openly.
You will get them all the time if you don’t support the Biden group
I think it's automated. Maybe they have a rule that sends that report to everyone who posts in a certain thread or on a certain sub, or you had a certain keyword.
I got my first Cares email yesterday, within seconds of posting on a somewhat political thread
It's considered a bot for now, see one of the comments here that tagged another link to a more detailed discussion.
Messages meant to help people being used to harass people into needing help. Brilliant feature.
Just a bunch of butt-hurt snow flakes that took offense to something you said. I have had plenty 😉
Had one too. Must have made someone mad.
Snowflakes got butt hurt by comments they don't like. Since they can't "cancel" anyone on reddit effectively, that's the closest thing they can do
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Seems like someone is running a bot to harass people. I've made a few random innocuous comments only for me to get the reddit cares PM instantly.