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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 djf1 »

leereeves wrote: post #181
jfuhrman wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn't even removed by Reddit. It was removed by subreddit mods who essentially have full control of a sub. Anyone can create a sub and enforce their own curation or arbitrary rules which is not the same as censorship. From the sub sidebar: >This is a curated space. >The moderators reserve the right to remove posts, users, and comments at their own discretion. If I create a subreddit where I ban all posts start wi…

How do you see who it was removed by?

As a reply to jfuhrman's comment, Reddit has recently updated their rules to include "Keep Everyone Safe: You agree to not intentionally jeopardize the health and safety of others or yourself." (https://www.reddit.com/help/useragreement#section_reddit_rul...)

So, many of the deleted posts could have been deleted by the admins, in theory.

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

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Post by dang »

spodek wrote: post #76

HN users consistently imply this place has better comments than Reddit. "Reddit is a cesspool." "Can we please not bring this to HN as well." etc. I've never had a problem avoiding content I didn't like there. Meanwhile I saw great discussions at various times. Here, on the other hand, I've nearly stopped reading. Besides the unjustified elitism, constantly I'd post on a thread here only to see it disappear with no e…

Moderators haven't touched this post. Upvotes and flags are in the usual tug-of-war that happens with controversial submissions.

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

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Post by mod »

baby wrote: post #123
smegel wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feminism too.

It baffles me that people still have trouble differentiating Feminism as wanting women to be equal to men in the world AND the usual stupid more vocal minority. I think a lot of people here on HN are feminist in the sense that we think women should be treated equally to men in a modern society.

I'm "feminist in that sense," but that's not how I equate the feminist movement, nor how it seems to play out in practice.

That said, I think it's true of lots of other situations. Political parties, for instance, are widely characterized as those "stupid" extremists. If you ask a liberal, Bill O'Reilly is the epitome of a conservative, and if you ask a conservative, Michael Moore is the epitome of a liberal.

In reality, most people on other side are just pretty normal.

I would never identify as a feminist, but certainly I believe in equal rights. I think that typically, people who identify as feminists give the "movement" a bad name.

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

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Post by baby »

txru wrote: post #120
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…

Here's /r/all as of about a half hour ago. Not cool. http://imgur.com/a/5KMCS#0

meh. Mostly from r/punchablefaces which is another hateful subreddit.

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

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Post by nemothekid »

batiudrami wrote: post #108
ChikkaChiChi wrote: post #55

Notch has the right idea. Why not just block the subreddits you find offensive? https://twitter.com/notch/status/608706518972788736 Reddit just put the world on notice that they are willing to become user babysitters, and historically this has never ended well for the company involved.

Because it was spilling out into other subreddits. I had FPH on a filter, but you could go to any other post with a photo of someone who was overweight and there'd be an upvoted comment calling them a "hambeast".

I don't think banning a subreddit will solve the problem os assholes on the internet. People have been saying hurtful things before keyboards were a thing.

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

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Post by feybay »

sehr wrote: post #73
sergiotapia wrote: post #66

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

I genuinely hope they do, it would be nice to browse reddit without them

You'll all be there in a few years if it sticks around.

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

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Post by PopeOfNope »

bramgg wrote: post #151
PopeOfNope wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, he was. When GamerGate happened, that's exactly what he attempted to do. He replaced most of the mods on the site within a very short amount of time and the heavy handed policing started. Most of 4chan left in response. Many alternative chan sites were started, including 8ch.net.

> Most of 4chan left in response. Many alternative chan sites were started, including 8ch.net. A very small fraction of the worst bored on a bad website left to join an even worse website. Don't kid yourself.

I don't hear a refutation buried anywhere in there. Did you have something other than base insults to bring to the table?

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

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Post by 001sky »

jfuhrman wrote: post #192
leereeves wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you see who it was removed by?

Reddit admin staff don't touch any posts in subreddits unless it is something against the site rules like doxxing,personal info or child porn. Some subs leave a flair or a moderator message on removed submission, if not you can modmail them and ask.

What is a shadow ban like on Reddit?

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

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Post by philwelch »

powrtoch wrote: post #104
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…

The front page is pretty worrying. The situation seems almost identical to when Reddit axed r/jailbait: one of their more embarrassing communities started to get too much attention, its users were increasingly behaving in a way that was damaging Reddit, and Reddit decided to kill it (ostensibly for the greater good of the site). But even though that pissed plenty of people off... I don't recall the front page being t…

Previous Reddit CEO's have made lots of statements about wanting the site to allow relatively free expression, aside from things like doxxing and pedophilia. Ellen Pao has instead talked about turning Reddit into a "safe space", which is a common euphemism for eliminating dissenting viewpoints.

FPH in and of itself isn't the most defensible or tasteful subreddit, but they're going to start by banning the least defensible subreddits first. Once the precedent is made, they can start banning political dissent subreddits.

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

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Post by txru »

baby wrote: post #204
txru wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's /r/all as of about a half hour ago. Not cool. http://imgur.com/a/5KMCS#0

meh. Mostly from r/punchablefaces which is another hateful subreddit.

Yep. It's just a nice reminder for me to quietly stay subscribed to r/scala, r/learnprogramming, and r/AskHistorians.
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