Do people report just to get revenge or hurt others?

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On twitter I'm almost on a permanent ban cos someone reported a joke I told.

It was an edgy joke & technically broke the rules.

But it's a common joke on my TL, I have a padlocked account so it must have been one of my followers and my followers wouldn't have found the joke offensive.

Do you think it's possible that someone grassed on me just to get revenge? If so, over what? Because I report bigots?

I only report people who I think are doing something actually immoral or hurting others. There's a boy on my TL who's going through a really rough time & technically his suicidal stuff breaks the rules, but I don't grass him up cos I think it would do more harm than good to his mental health.

When I get into trouble, it affects my mental health and makes me feel like a really bad person.

Of course, it can be some kind of revenge or maybe someone wanted to bully you, but there's also a chance that you don't know your followers as well as you think. Maybe one of them did find the joke offensive.

People do this all the time, half the population is a bunch of insanely evil narcissists. People will literally attack you just because you're having a positive nice time and they aren't.

I always end up having my social media accounts attacked in some way, people are mad jealous of any little thing. The way to combat this is to just try to be as vanilla as possible online, don't get into any fights or anything that can be used against you if someone decides to report you.

I mainly deal with this kind of thing offline, where people literally ring the police on our business because they're so jealous and want to see us fail, we end up having police CID officers stalk the area multiple times to see if we're chopping cars because people are jealous of success to the point they want to wreck your s**t.

Reminds me of little kids building blocks and one kid does a really awesome one and another kid gets jealous and wrecks it, same s**t just in a more complex way.

Revenge?  I cannot speak for others.  However, while I normally have moderate tolerance for BS, I am more likely to report someone's infractions of the rules if they have repeatedly harassed or insulted me than someone who has been nice to me or simply ignored me.

Personally I avoid massive social media like Twitter.

The more massive the medium, the more drama.

That's one of the reasons I prefer to stick with small message boards like WP.

Yes, tattle-tales are known for that exact behaviour...

...and nobody likes a tattle-tale.

People are on edge these days, gotta be really careful about what you say. I am woman of color with a dark sense of humor also and even I have to make sure not to say those kinds of jokes because I know how people are.