DA (original anon that brought potential legal issues, and you brought up some solid points in the other comments, so scratch that whole thing anyway lol)
Wow the thread kind of devolved(?) a bit while I was out. Sorry about that o.o"
I think they may have meant they received a hate speech message in response to the festival submission, not the actual submission to DR (because otherwise, the submission may have been removed/not posted?). All assuming American law, as well. Regardless of what it was, it's still a shitty situation all around, and festival submission anon: I'm sorry that happened to you. You didn't deserve to get harassed over a festival submission. I hope that you're managing as well as can be.
In response to your other comment, you do bring up some good points, and I do agree as well. Some things absolutely should be removed, but other things should stay up. I wholeheartedly agree with you about the festival submission anon. I regularly get pings for UMAs that technically fit my preferences (say, occult), but aren't actually my taste due to artistic style. I simply ignore them and move on. Why on earth can't people do the same thing on salt blogs? When it comes to actually affecting other users negatively, like scams, then absolutely. Call them out, but there's no need to harass them. I feel like users don't exactly understand salt blogs well sometimes (and I clearly didn't understand legal stuff either).
Re: DA
Wow the thread kind of devolved(?) a bit while I was out. Sorry about that o.o"
I think they may have meant they received a hate speech message in response to the festival submission, not the actual submission to DR (because otherwise, the submission may have been removed/not posted?). All assuming American law, as well. Regardless of what it was, it's still a shitty situation all around, and festival submission anon: I'm sorry that happened to you. You didn't deserve to get harassed over a festival submission. I hope that you're managing as well as can be.
In response to your other comment, you do bring up some good points, and I do agree as well. Some things absolutely should be removed, but other things should stay up. I wholeheartedly agree with you about the festival submission anon. I regularly get pings for UMAs that technically fit my preferences (say, occult), but aren't actually my taste due to artistic style. I simply ignore them and move on. Why on earth can't people do the same thing on salt blogs? When it comes to actually affecting other users negatively, like scams, then absolutely. Call them out, but there's no need to harass them. I feel like users don't exactly understand salt blogs well sometimes (and I clearly didn't understand legal stuff either).