Proposal to help improve the tone of the sub and better spot bad actors

In keeping with rules about keeping the conversation civil and also with not accusing random users of being bots and bad actors, I think there’s a method we could employ that helps the sub’s tone and also helps create identifiable evidence of bad actors:

• Step 1 - user suspects the person they’re engaging with is uncivil to provoke a spat/engaging in talking points that don’t have to do with the topic at hand/being passive aggressive and insulting the user’s intelligence/gullibility/ability to argue etc
• Step 2 - user edits their top-level comment in the exchange with the user with some neutral but distinctive code e.g. "ptfft2025/[username]” (Potential Troll Flagged For Tracking 2025).
• Step 3 - smash that block button and stop engaging

I’m not knowledgeable about advanced tools and methods but presumably this type of tag isn’t antagonistic- it’s opinion and there’s no interaction- but provides a paper trail to build a case about bad actor accounts.

And if these accounts delete their comments to evade being noticed, the user names have been recorded.

Sure we might get false positives, but since it’s non-antagonistic then there’s really no downside. Suspend or ban people who use the tag without blocking/stopping engagement with the account. There’s limited abuse potential bc this only triggers a review (assuming tools can make use of this info).

Might help unclog mod queues and modmail.

Thoughts?