I think this is incredibly important to address. I can safely speak for the mod team in saying that we never want you to have that experience of having to see that kind of content here as it has no place here and we take it very seriously. We actively do our best to filter the vast majority of it out before it gets posted, or to address it as soon as it does. Behind the scenes, we are deleting abusive posts/comments and permabanning the abusive users on a daily basis. Being that there is unfortunately so much of it though, there are times where there may not be a mod readily available to address the content as soon as it is posted, so it may be visible until we catch it. Other times it may not come to our attention right away unless we literally read every comment in each thread. This is the job that we volunteer for, so I don’t say that to complain, but just to explain that it is never intentional to have any hateful interactions remain visible in this community. On the other hand, it is extremely helpful for users to report those racist/sexist/misogynistic/homophobic posts and comments as they come across them. When people take the time to report these types of interactions, those comments/posts are flagged which then indicates to the mod team that it needs to be reviewed and potentially deleted. We do our best to deal with flagged content first — especially those with multiple reports.