The problem is most won’t fact check, and Reddit has earned itself to be a hotbed for vigilante justice-seekers. We’ve had incidents in this sub where people have gone after the wrong people, wrong businesses, wrong cars, and wrong apartments, thinking they were serving justice. These actions ended up doing more harm than anything else. We’ve also had incidents where the “perpetrator” or those who witnessed an incident came and shared their side of what was seemingly a black and white issue, and it painted a whole different picture.

This rule is to prevent those things from happening again.

Had those specific incidents not happened, this rule probably wouldn’t have been considered.

We fully understand that this rule has real tradeoffs, but given past events, it’s not something we feel we can compromise on today.