I'm making this post because manually formatting is broken. From my knowledge, it has been broken ever since the useless formatting tool has been introduced to posts. To anyone who isn't used to manually formatting their texts, I'll explain: posts that can be edited are possible to be fixed by simply editing and removing the "/" that the tool has automatically placed on our format after posting. However, posts that cannot be edited after being posted are impossible to fix. We have to essentially not format an entire wall of text because the formatting tool doesn't let us format – how fucking frustrating and ironic is that?

I have tried to work with the formatting tool rather then against it. Thing is, we are restricted to the very few options available (on mobile) such as making titles, making bold and italic letters. And even then, it sucks at doing that.

First of all, nobody wants to be going over what they have written to format it. It is not convenient. Second of all, anytime I do try and go over my text to format it with the useless – sorry – formatting tool, it glitches and the whole post gets formatted into what I was trying to do with a single sentence.

Now, I understand the intention behind it. It was probably made so that people who don't know (or couldn't bother) to manually format, would have an accessible tool to use.

The problem is, it has completely ruined manually formatting posts AND does not even do a good job as it's buggy as hell. Whoever worked on it should still be working on it before releasing it. I've been seeing a pattern from Reddit with releasing unfinished things. But I digress.

I NEED an option to at least disable this tool and be able to manually format. Why are we making it impossible to manually format posts? You can try and offer a formatting tool that works without ruining it for people who are able and enjoy to manually format posts.

Thank you,

A Very Very Very Frustrated Reddit Moderator

TLDR: Point has been proven. You would have read this wall of text if I could have formatted it.

I wanted to tell someone about this ridiculous harassment that happened to me today.

This one person, not even sure if they were a member, they had very low community activity. They were giving bad advice and blatant misinformation. I commented from my personal account, that the OP should ask in a different sub where there’s more experienced people that could better help them. I didn’t engage with the troll directly, didn’t call them out or anything, but they sought me out anyway. I offered OP direct links to help and tried to stay out of it. The troll wouldn’t stop, I removed the troll’s comments, and gave them a violation because one of their comments broke our no personal attack rule.

I thought the matter was done, I come back to a report in the queue and the troll wouldn’t stop. I had to lock the whole thread. The troll kept editing their deleted comments, trying to dunk on me or something. So I locked and removed the post and told OP to repost or post in the other more appropriate sub, because the people in the comments couldn’t be civil. Mind you 7 hours have passed since I last commented on the thread.

Within seconds of the troll’s last comment and the post removal, I get several notifications. “A concerned redditor reached out to us about you.” With a bunch of resources for crisis help lines, because they were concerned I was a danger to myself.

Seriously, you report me to reddit cares because you couldn’t handle being wrong and having your comments removed. (In case it wasn’t obvious, I’ve never posted anything that would give anyone the idea that I would be a danger to myself.)

I permanently banned the troll almost instantly. I told them why too, using Reddit resources that are actually important to harass a mod would not be tolerated.

It’s just so ridiculous. I’ve gotten the standard death threats and name calling before. But this was a new one for me.

Edit: guess I have to ban the troll from another sub I mod. He went there and is still bad mouthing me.