I keep getting recommendations for a sub specifically for teenagers. Am I a overreacting to imagine that having that on adults’ feeds is inviting creepers? How do you contact Reddit with a concern that can’t be expressed with a click?
I keep getting recommendations for a sub specifically for teenagers. Am I a overreacting to imagine that having that on adults’ feeds is inviting creepers? How do you contact Reddit with a concern that can’t be expressed with a click?
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Yeah it’s a well known issue and reddit doesn’t care/can’t really do much. They’re not gonna ban every sub geared towards teens. It’s on the mods to try to keep out creepers and that’s an impossible task.
You can mute the sub for yourself to stop seeing it.
https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
Select “Other report” for your submission!
The algorithm does as it does, there is no one who is going to listen to complaints nor warning unless it blows up in the news. r / teenagers is already widly known as being overrun with adults, and I doubt any youth aimed sub is gonna survive actually being aimed at kids.
Pretty sure creepers find them without having them on their feeds and being on adult’s feeds you have a better chance of adults peeking on what “the fellow kids” are up, so they can find creepers and report them. Teenagers should have their spaces, but they never should be completely closed spaces.
you likely subscribe to a lot of subs that other people in teen specific subs subscribe to so the algorithm is assuming you belong with other like minded redditors. creepers don’t need any help finding subs for teens, they probably also subscribe to the same teen minded subs you do and actual teens do and don’t need an algorithm to tell them where to be a creep.
It’s worth noting that some teenagers are legally adults.
Just mute it and move on. If bad shit starts to happen in there it’ll get shut down like all the other creepy subs that existed.