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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 noarchy »

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 know that /r/politics seems to lean heavily towards what might be termed "liberal" politics, but outside of that it really depends. Most of the subs I read aren't political at all. The nice thing about reddit is that you have some control over that.

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

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Post by shard972 »

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?

Is someone suggesting making a SHNS site? What do you mean?

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

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Post by UnoriginalGuy »

EC1 wrote: post #48
zxcvcxz wrote: post #8

I don't know how to feel about this. On one hand I'm against censorship, on the other I'm against internet bullying. /r/FatPeopleHate was engaging in both. In the end reddit is a private site that can do what it wants. Wikipedia removes things all the time and sites like 4chan remove all sorts of extremely offensive material. I'm glad the mods of the hate oriented subreddits have been shadow banned, I actually think…

Internet bullying? What? Just don't visit places like r/fatpeoplehate if you are fat. Just turn it off.

You don't have to visit to get bullied. They were literally posting people's Facebook pages, images posted in other subs, and original photos they took themselves.

There are numerous incidents of harassment against other users on Reddit, and even off of Reddit. The admins said themselves they received numerous complaints.

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

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Post by zobzu »

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…

Admirable goal, wrong execution, not that its easy to get right, but still a classic.

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

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Post by zobzu »

deanstag wrote: post #32
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

this guy with the truck is damn lucky.

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

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Post by sergiotapia »

This marks the beginning of the end of Reddit. It's been a long time coming and Reddit has become a huge promotional platform for pseudo user generated content submitted by shills and celebrities.

A lot of people are migrating to Voat.

http://voat.co

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

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Post by lukeschlather »

fleitz wrote: post #15
Navarr wrote: post #2

Clarification from the Reddit Admins on their announcement post indicate that they're banning subs where moderators either took no action or encouraged organized harassment (as in going to other subs or websites and actively harassing the person in question) as opposed to subs that just post awful things about people.

Why not ban the people organizing these activities rather than the sub? It's a smoke screen for banning ideas.

If the people organizing the activities are the moderators, how do you ban them without banning the sub?

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

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Post by eli »

fleitz wrote: post #57
gkoberger wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit is a venture-funded company with a large staff that needs to monetize. Nobody wants their ad next to a post fat-shaming someone. I don't agree with censorship, however the two sites aren't comparable.

The sites are very comparable, which is why everyone is comparing them. 4chan being profitable, and reddit not being profitable don't make them not comparable. Lots of ads have fat shaming in them, so I'm not sure why you wouldn't want diet pill ads next to fat shaming posts. Have you read any fitness articles recently? It's pretty much fat shaming content, next to ads for things that might make you less fat.

4chan was profitable? I find that very surprising.

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

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Post by emehrkay »

teraflop wrote: post #30

This article dramatically understates the magnitude of the shitstorm that is currently unfolding. Check out http://www.reddit.com/r/all/ if you feel like seeing all the ugliness. (And if anyone has any doubts that this is ultimately about harassment, count how many of the posts on the front page (and their comments) are made up of personal attacks and/or obscenities targeted at CEO Ellen Pao.) I don't fault the Reddi…

This makes me want to leave Reddit alone.

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

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Post by rcfox »

adamnemecek wrote: post #21
zxcvcxz wrote: post #8

I don't know how to feel about this. On one hand I'm against censorship, on the other I'm against internet bullying. /r/FatPeopleHate was engaging in both. In the end reddit is a private site that can do what it wants. Wikipedia removes things all the time and sites like 4chan remove all sorts of extremely offensive material. I'm glad the mods of the hate oriented subreddits have been shadow banned, I actually think…

> On one hand I'm against censorship, I feel like censorship isn't the right word for this but I can't think of a better one.

It's moderation.

"Censorship" implies suppressing free speech, which this is not. It's simply removing undesirable content from a privately-owned website.

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