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On Reddit there’s this thing about suicide prevention. Essentially, if someone thinks that you are suicidal, they can make reddit send you a very official looki
by mrtksn 2y ago
On Reddit there’s this thing about suicide prevention. Essentially, if someone thinks that you are suicidal, they can make reddit send you a very official looking “don’t do it” message.
I found that people are using it to abuse those they hate. I’ve received the message a few times when I had an argument with someone. Apparently it's a thing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/questions/comments/1bp1k9h/why_do_i_keep_getting_these_crisis_text_line/ https://www.reddit.com/r/questions/comments/1bp1k9h/why_do_i...
There’s something profound about someone looking serious(official looking reddit account) giving you the idea of suicide. The first time I remember feeling very bad, because it’s written in a very official and caring way, it was like someone telling me that “I hate you so much that I spent lots of energy to meticulously tell you dat I want you to kill yourself” but also made me question myself.
- euvin 2y agoWow, that's the first time I'm hearing about that tactic. And it's dawning on me how egregious that is because it could be inoculating you against the very messages meant to dissuade you. Though I'm unsure how effective those messages were to begin with.
- mrtksn 2y agoYeah, it's making you look back at yourself. Like when someone tells you that you look tired or sick or something like that, and you are actually not but you still need to check it up because they might have a point. Then more often than not you start feeling that way. It's suggestive.
- futuramaconarma 2y agoMight be worth investing some energy leveling up skills of not lettting random internet jerks have that much power over thy emotions
- mrtksn 2y agoYou build it over time but sometimes they invent brilliant attacks vectors.
- hsbauauvhabzb 2y agoThe message is not necessarily to dissuade you, but to protect Reddit.
- gsibble 2y agoOh, I got a lot of those for hate. The good news is it was easy to report them and I got most people who sent them banned. It's highly against reddit's TOS and something they enforce.