Some people appear to have nothing better to do than to hurl abuse on social media. I run a number of social media pages for a number of organisations and it never surprises me that someone would take the time to formulate a bilious, abusive, rant response to what I always feel are quite innocuous posts. I don't have any political leanings in the posts I do, they don't reflect current affairs, they are just informative or self-deprecating.
The ugliness of some of the comments probably points to some deeply disturbed problem and it's as if they have battery acid for blood.
I don't suppose they'll know that I have a system that deals with these promptly and that's a report for abusive hate speech, blocking and there's a few little features that stop any other iteration of the same account coming back. It's effective and report and block are powerful tools especially when hatred and abuse are posted. Their account will be immediately suspended pending review and I imagine that it wont just be my account that they've abused and so they'll lose their account altogether and any other account they have might be suspended.
I get occasional suspensions and I'm pretty certain that people are reporting my account but, or course, when they investigate, they can see that the account is active, not threatening or in any way outside their Ts&Cs and so I normally get reinstated in 5 minutes from notification.
The other stuff I get is Spam and so you just click and report spam and block in the same action. It's simple.
It makes you wonder why they do this sort of thing but each to his own I suppose.
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