I don’t know what “brigading” entails in the rules of this subreddit so I’ll only link to the issue in the comments if I have permission, but for the past week, I’ve had to deal what appears to be a single ban evading harasser with multiple accounts, though they tell me it’s multiple people.

At the beginning, the reports seemed to work, though I had to file many, many, many reports. They would harass me. I would report them. The spam detectors would see them as spam. They’d come back thirty minutes later. This cycle continued ten times. They ban evaded ten times over the course of four hours. Finally, they said that they would change tactics, where instead of going on me directly, they would both make posts slandering me as well as replying to my own posts telling people to slander me “when I least expect it”.

However, it was at this point sending reports stopped working.

However many people there have been involved, every time I made a post, they’d reply to it saying “this person is a pedo blah blah blah check out these links whose interpretations I shall spoonfeed to you to ‘prove’ it”. If I reported them, it wouldn’t work. If I blocked them, they’d block evade, and even if I reported them for block evading, it wouldn’t work. Their accounts at any given time would have to be 1) reported by an onlooker and 2) reported for breaking that subreddit’s rules, as shown by the fact their successfully reported comments wouldn’t look like they were reported but instead treated as spam.

In one such instance, they signed up with my real name as their username. I don’t know the protocol for impersonation, I wouldn’t know for example if you had to be famous or not in order to be able to say “that’s my name”.

At one point, this morning, I got my very first ever violation warning. Reddit said it was because I revealed someone else’s account without their permission. I am accepting of my report but had many questions, so I asked about it in r/help with such questions as what the criteria is to see where the boundaries were with the rule so I could avoid breaking the rule again. The only person who would reply to the question told me Reddit purposefully makes that vague in order to keep people from exploiting loopholes (my very first WTF moment with Reddit). Lo and behold, the harasser/slanderer (or one of them) then shows up in what I would assume is in plain view of all the Reddit mods. And this person who told me about the vagueness, who calls themself a pioneer helper in a subreddit where there is one rule against callouts, one rule against uncivility, and one rule against post hijacking (all three of which which would’ve been broken by the act of simply barging in to make claims about me) was all like “thanks for the tip” without even questioning it. It’s a subreddit run by Reddit admins, and I’m almost positive they must’ve seen the replies on the post because the post is currently removed (I’m split on whether it was automod as it was so belated). Yet this person who keeps spreading stuff about me remained unscratched.

This has continued a little more since then. I’m also worried in a sense because I accidentally phrased a then-future comment in a way that seemed like I was breaking the same rule that got me the Reddit violation warning this morning when referring to a post of one of the harassing accounts while talking about the other. I edited it three hours later, but the concern of the aforementioned vagueness looms. Feel free to answer those concerns below too.

I’ve sent reports days ago that never lead to anything, and other setbacks include…

• If I block them, they either block evade or talk behind my back, and I know for a fact Reddit disabled the ability for anyone to report people you’ve blocked and people who have blocked you.

• If I ignore them, they continue doing their thing.

• If I argue, it just makes the discussion grow.

So on and so forth.

They want to do this on a number of sites they know I’m on and even offline. There is NO containment here. Yet all I’d really need to solve this is working reports. What are the possibilities of what could be going on here?