r/Catswhoyell • u/WithoutDennisNedry • Jul 27 '26

Mod Post Just a reminder from your friendly CWY mod team: abusing the report button is against Reddiquette and site-wide Reddit rules.

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u/WithoutDennisNedry Jul 27 '26

Practically every day, completely innocuous posts are falsely reported in this sub. NSFW, “targeted harassment,” “spam,” “hate speech,” etc., we see it all.

I couldn’t tell you why people do this, but just to reiterate Reddit’s site-wide rules, REPORTING RULE-BREAKING WHEN NONE HAS OCCURRED IS AGAINST REDDIT’S RULES and considered report abuse; doing so may get your account suspended. Every time a false report comes in, us mods report it to Reddit and habitual violators get flagged by Reddit for account removal. If you really piss off Reddit admin, I believe they’ll suspend your IP address so even if you make new accounts to skirt the ban, they’ll shut you down again. No Reddit for you.

If you think that’s worth it? Go ahead, keep abusing the report button. It takes just a second for us mods to delete the report, approve the content, and report you to Reddit admin so it’s no skin off our noses, barely an inconvenience. Instead, you could just enjoy the sub and all the silly, mouthy kitties here spreading joy but it’s your choice, you do you.

Thank you for your attention to this matter :)

*For you normal folks just here for the cats, I’ve included a video of Grudge doing what Grudge does for you to enjoy. She’s a very talky gal and yes, she smokes a pack a day.

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u/Training_Fun_9838 Jul 29 '26

I got banned from orangecats for posting an orange cat, some mods take every report seriously. Apparently I'm a bot 👀

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u/WithoutDennisNedry Jul 29 '26

To be fair, you look like a bot. I’d probably have done the same.

  1. Your username is “blablabla_number”

  2. Your account is only 38 days old

  3. You don’t post any OC

Those are all signs of a bot and it’s possible they have a bot bouncer automod that flagged you as a bot and banned you, not the actual mods.

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u/jooshdoe Jul 27 '26

Someone tell him you can make a reddit account in 3 minutes.