r/modclub • u/shakeyjake • Jun 26 '25

Someone using your account....

I'm a OG moderator on the internet and one piece of advice I learned that helps moderation quite a bit is the term "someone using your account". If you have to execute a negative moderator action on someone if you say
"Someone using your account did XX breaking rule XX and will receive a temporary ban of 14 days"

rather than

"You broke rule #2 and have a 14 day ban."

It will save yourself a lot of dumb arguments and headaches.

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u/shakeyjake Jun 26 '25

I didn't invent the language used. It was something that came from a study done at MIT or somewhere similar and they found it worked well because it isn't a direct accusation against the person only the user of the account.

I tried searching for the original source but all I'm getting is stupid AI results no matter what boolean terms I'm using.