Hey folks, a lot of you don't know me, but you probably have seen a massive amount of the SnooRoar drama going on.

Personally, I think it's great that there's such a great interest in trying to protect Reddit from someone who is known to create alt accounts. But, I think we're going about this the wrong way. By constantly pointing out members who may be SnooRoar, there's a few issues that are coming up

First - we're giving that sweet sweet attention that he craves. We're feeding into his game. We ban an account, he'll happily join with a new one. If he didn't want people to keep catching him, he'd change the subs he particaptes in, he'd change how he interacts - we wouldn't notice it was him.

Second - We're taking attention away from genuine members here who need support or want to submit genuine content. Comments are part of what sends content to the 'Hot' page, which means we're missing out of genuine content there.

Third - This community has 39,000 members, and only 6 mods, possibly not all active at this moment. Bringing constant negative attention to one post is dragging so much time away from volunteers who already have to handle personal lives and normal mod actions.

Can we please, as a community, try to find another way to address this issue? I don't think banning the account is the solution. If he's banned, he'll be back. There's no way to stop it. I don't think it's reasonable to ask the mods to ban this account. Either it's not him and we're risking someone's mental health by taking away a support system, or we're giving him attention to make a new account. We can ask the admins to look into it -- if his account was suspended, they can track the account back and ban him from the site. Just saying "Hey, they type the same, and participate in some similar subreddits" just isn't enough. Even the subreddit that was tracking him admitted they had false flags. On other communities, that may be fine, but this is a peer support one for mental health.

I'm not a mod here, I'm just an outsider looking in. But I think we can work to find a productive way to move along from this.