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Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

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Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

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Post by girvo »

ejcx wrote: post #26

The idea is to make people who are being harassed on reddit feel safe[0]. This goal is something I think everyone agrees is a good goal. As a policy decision, I think it is pretty weird they started banning communities instead of people. There are a lot of people on reddit and policing individual users would be a challenge. Would something like a "flag harassment" button have the same desired affect? 0 - http://www.r…

> This goal is something I think everyone agrees is a good goal

Depends. As it stands, making something a "safe space" is a super broad goal that has some very fuzzy edges. But then, I enjoy dissent and viewpoints at odds with my own, and it's a private company that needs to make money, so I can understand it.

Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

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Post by deanstag »

mahouse wrote: post #20

This is pretty interesting. The top posts on all of reddit as of now: https://www.reddit.com/r/all

it is quite funny to see another innocuous post amidst all the vile and hateful posts. "How do people even do this shit? (X-Post from /r/gtagifs) " (https://i.imgur.com/po4V0QW.gifv )

Edit : added quotes for clarity

Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

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Post by teraflop »

mynameishere wrote: post #25
elinchrome wrote: post #10

Reddit has become a real cesspool over the past few years. You'll always find misogyny front and center and you don't have to dig to find racism.

I've been on reddit for 8 years, and lurked before that. The top submissions and comments have always, and consistently, been standard-issue PC/liberal in their overall view.

I've been on Reddit approximately that long, and I disagree. It's always been made up of people who like to think of themselves as liberal, in a group-solidarity, shared-identity sort of sense. But the conservative/reactionary undercurrents have been around for quite a while and have been growing with every passing year.

Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

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Post by girvo »

kzhahou wrote: post #28

A few weeks ago, /r/fatpeoplehate started showing up at the top of /r/all, every day. This was pretty lame, since I prefer /r/all versus home page. Anyone know how /r/fph suddenly jumped so high?

> Anyone know how /r/fph suddenly jumped so high?

It was the fastest growing subreddit outside of the defaults, and by far the most active. Turns out there's a large contingent of people who seem to hate fat people, at least that's how it seems anyway

Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

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Post by eli »

mynameishere wrote: post #25
elinchrome wrote: post #10

Reddit has become a real cesspool over the past few years. You'll always find misogyny front and center and you don't have to dig to find racism.

I've been on reddit for 8 years, and lurked before that. The top submissions and comments have always, and consistently, been standard-issue PC/liberal in their overall view.

I don't think this has anything to do with liberal vs conservative. Nor does outright bullying really have anything to do with "political correctness".

Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

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Post by ejcx »

girvo wrote: post #31
ejcx wrote: post #26

The idea is to make people who are being harassed on reddit feel safe[0]. This goal is something I think everyone agrees is a good goal. As a policy decision, I think it is pretty weird they started banning communities instead of people. There are a lot of people on reddit and policing individual users would be a challenge. Would something like a "flag harassment" button have the same desired affect? 0 - http://www.r…

> This goal is something I think everyone agrees is a good goal Depends. As it stands, making something a "safe space" is a super broad goal that has some very fuzzy edges. But then, I enjoy dissent and viewpoints at odds with my own, and it's a private company that needs to make money, so I can understand it.

Yes I agree. Everyone attaches their own meaning to that. I only mean it to be, a website where using it isn't going to get you needlessly harassed, doxed, threatened, etc. and when that kind of stuff happens, people don't find it acceptable.

This is clearly a growing pain for reddit. Something like "reddiquitte" only scales so much.

Re: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign

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Post by a89anqm2ovn »

mintplant wrote: post #7
a89anqm2ovn wrote: post #3

> We’re banning behavior, not ideas. SRS has always had atrocious behavior that's been forgiven because of their ideas....

Can we please not bring this to HN as well?

Can we not bring this to HN as well?

When you declare certain points of view to be out-of-bounds you deprive yourself of the opportunity to have your own views challenged.

edit: I admit my comment above was a knee-jerk reaction and that in itself is a problem. One of the best parts of HN is the higher quality of comments and I would be sad if all the comments here had as little effort put into them.

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