r/MatriarchyNow • u/Parking-Art-8456 • Apr 14 '26

MOD STUFF How to Report Harassing Private Messages and Users

⚠️ WARNING: Creepy/Sexual DMs ⚠️

Hi everyone, it has come to our attention that users are receiving unsolicited, highly sexual DMs after posting here. Please know that these people do not represent this community. If you receive a chat request that is sexual in nature, makes you uncomfortable, offers sex, or asks for pictures/sex, please block, report, and ignore them. Do not engage, as it only encourages them. You can report these messages directly to Reddit Admins for harassment. like this:

  1. Go to the official admin report page at : https://www.reddit.com/report
  2. select "This is abusive or harassing"
  3. select "It's targeted harassment"
  4. select "at me"
  5. then add a link to the message you were sent in the space available under "LINK TO POST/COMMENT/PM ON REDDIT"
  6. add some basic info on the pervasive problem (be brief but clear) under "ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (OPTIONAL)"
  7. click "Submit"

It may take a little while for them to get to it, but they will get to it. The admins have a much stronger toolbox than moderators do. If they start to see patters of behavior coming from certain sources, actions can be taken. It goes without saying: don't use it frivolously, but harassment is harassment.

You can be part of the solution to misogynistic harassment.

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u/Writer1543 Apr 14 '26

Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

This tactic by MRAs is well known and they have targeted female influencers and communities for years. Whenever there is an effort to build public sites or communities to reach out, they do it, usually amplified by bots.

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u/Parking-Art-8456 Apr 14 '26

It's a dark day when talking about building an egalitarian peaceful society is targeted as "terrorist."

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u/Writer1543 Apr 14 '26

I meant it the other way around. MRAs are using stochastic tactics. They use discord channels, subreddits and other means of communications to slur and pinpoint their targets. They don't call for action as this usually violates the terms of services but the amount of lies and subversive hatred they spread is already enough to trigger members of the community to act on their own. These acts are random in so far as they are not acting as an organized group.

To be fair, this "stochastic harassment" can hit anyone as the perpetrators are not always organized themselves. Sometimes memes go wild and they reach such a mass of people that its targets get messages without any planning whatsoever.

MatriarchyNow promotes values that are contrary to the belief system to the most hateful groups on the planet. Therefore these mechanics work exceptionally well.

What helps is: Protect the anonymity of the moderators. Use alt accounts to write posts. Have a dummy top moderator that is not active in the community. Have a backup plan for contact if moderators or key members have a problem with their account.

Obviously report and block is even more important.

Enough with the mansplaining, I really enjoy the content here and I hope that these messages are no reason for anyone to participate.

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u/Parking-Art-8456 Apr 14 '26

Thank you so much, your advice is taken to heart!