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TIFU by complaining about a Lyft incident, and then getting doxxed by their official account after hitting the front page
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You may have read my original post this morning about how I had a Lyft driver pressuring me to give him my personal phone number and email address before my ride. I felt unsafe and canceled. Even after escalating, Lyft refused to refund me. Only after my posts hit 3 million views, did they suddenly try to call me and they offered me my $5 refund.

But get this. Suddenly I'm getting tagged and I discover that their official account has posted for the first time in ages.... and DOXXED me in the thread. Instead of tagging my username, since I posted anonymously, their post reads "Dear [My real name]".

And here is the kicker, that is normally a bannable offense. Instead, the comment is removed by the moderators from the thread, but it has not been removed from their profile nor has their profile been banned as a normal user would be. It's still up!

Not sure what to do to get it removed. Any media I can contact to put pressure on Lyft??

TL;DR: Got myself DOXXED by the official Lyft account, which reddit apparently does not want to ban or even remove the comment.

Edit: After 5 hours, they removed my name. One of their execs just emailed me to inform me that they removed it, and suggested I could delete my Lyft account. I suggested they clean up their PR and CS teams because they're not doing so well today.

For your amusement: she is one of the top execs and she is located in the central time zone, so she was doing this at 11:00 p.m. 😂 Sounds like they are finally awake and paying attention. 👋

Update Tuesday morning: the customer service rep (same one who doxed me) who insisted he wanted to speak to me on the phone did not in fact call me at the appointed time. Of course, it's entirely possible that he woke up no longer employed by Lyft.

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I'm a moderator elsewhere on Reddit. You should know those "doesn't violate" messages are auto-replies; they do not come from humans, and frequently contradict the actual action taken by community mods (and sometimes by Reddit admins themselves). Case in point, that comment is removed now, but you won't have received a message telling you that. I and many other mods have repeatedly and over a number of years asked Reddit to clarify those messages and include avenues to appeal (including messaging community moderators), for precisely this reason, but they have repeatedly ignored our pleas.

Reddit has something they call Anti-Evil Operations, which appears to primarily or exclusively use AI to assess and respond to reports, and it gets it wrong a significant amount of the time. Reports are often rejected this way, evidently without ever being seen or read by a real human. The best way to appeal them is generally by messaging the moderators of the community the content was posted in.

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