So, in my class yesterday on automation, I was demonstrating how to automate Reddit content and we came across what was basically a suicide note, posted an hour before we viewed it. Now I know how many suicide notes are posted online and that... (1/x)

many of them are trolling or drama chasers but I feel as though they all need to be taken seriously, especially if you know nothing about the author. I was in the middle of the seminar but had my staff call it in. Have you ever come across this sort of thing? (2/x)

What's the protocol for something like that? You report it to the social network. You call your local police? Suicide hotline? Suicide subreddit? We don't know where the author lives, no history for the account, I wasn't even logged in to try to start a conversation but (3/x)

even if I was, I'm not qualified to talk someone down from a ledge. What would you do if you randomly came across a recently posted suicide note on the internet in a social network where you don't have an account? (4/4)

Addendum: would you have stopped a seminar to call it in? I'm lucky I had a few people around who could do that for me. I don't always.

And I ask this bc what if it's just a troll, or even a known troll who posts that ever day in that forum but you don't know that so you stop everything and... I guess the troll wins bc it's not something to ignore?