I used to be an active mod on a somewhat active subreddit, not going to say which one. I can say that it was rather suspicious to get pinged to an AHS thread made about a post that was less than 7 minutes old. There's a report button under every post, so the idea that this person couldn't have just used that instead of posting a big dramatic post makes me highly suspicious of AHS.

AHS could have the best intentions but karma addicted folks jumping on such a post to get a blitz of upvotes is always going to happen.

I'm amazed that the reddit mobile app pushes notifications about upvote thresholds by default - it is incredibly trashy.

I was pretty surprised because I just looked back at the AHS thread and there are hundreds of upvotes in there. It must've been euphoric

There's no feedback loop on reports. They disappear into the ether, possibly never to be acted upon. It shouldn't be surprising users have zero faith they'll accomplish anything on their own.

Sure, but I think it's fair to wait longer than 10 minutes before doing a big post maligning a subreddit for "letting hate slide". The post being 7 minutes old before it was posted on AHS is not an exaggeration.