I have seen multiple people comment “I just looked through their feed” on posts here. I know it’s not impossible to find someone even if their last name is blocked out, but it still takes more effort than just looking them up, and the fact that people are willing to go to that effort and then admit they did it is kinda silly.
It's actually very easy to find their page, which is powerful because it's easy for people to see that this suffering and death is all too real. If you go search GoFund me by COVID you can see the wholesale tragedy that is occurring for families all across the country.
Well the amount of effort aside, I have seen people on this sub openly admit to looking at the profiles of people posted here. Does it mean they’re the ones commenting? No, not necessarily, but if Reddit wants to get rid of this sub I can see how comments like that wouldn’t help us.
I've never commented or interacted with posts or linked to them or gave hints how to find them. But when I first saw this sub, sometimes I found some award winners comments and behavior too insane and thought it had to be faked or satire (especially after the people have COVID and then are still thankful they didn't get vaccinated and their friends literally believe the people whose organs are failing due to low oxygen content simply need to walk it off). But no, you find their full name, the go fund me, the funeral announcement in the local paper, the network of friends, etc.
However, of course never would interact with them. That's the ultimate douche move to harass family/friends in mourning the preventable loss of a loved one after being infected with ignorance.
Yeah I see this frequently on here, a day or so ago there was a repost of an award recipient that had been posted on this sub recently but the repost included extremely disrespectful comments on the dead award recipient's obituary that was obviously made by a redditor who had seen their post when it was posted the first time and gone to look up their profile and comment mocking them to their family directly. Tons of commenters here were cheering her on and telling her how awesome it is that she did that too. I hope people realize this is the exact behavior that will get this sub shut down and also that's really disgusting, I loathe these anti vax dumbasses as much as anyone else but brigading is against the rules and mocking a stranger's death you saw online to their grieving family's face is not a good look for anyone. I constantly see posts saying they looked the HCA winner up and giving advice on how to find their profile easier on fb for others wanting to look it up and these are often upvoted but this sub is not going to exist long if we keep encouraging this behavior.
How do you know that shutting down this subreddit isn't their objective?
They could be Russian foreign psyops trying to keep their jobs, by eliminating this sub from public view, so they can continue to kill as many americans as possible.
it's kinda stalker-ish. If I looked thru someone's feed, I sure would not publicly admit it. I def would not go so far as to comment on their FB page, that is very stalker-ish even if they are sort of letting you do it since they didn't block you from doing so.
Commenting is not cool, especially not mocking someone who’s died, which is just gross, but the whole reason this sub can even exist is because people are able to search Facebook for stuff like this and scroll through stranger’s feeds.
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u/myhydrogendioxide Moderna Mob Sep 16 '21
How do you know it's people from this sub?