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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 baby »

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…

> constantly I'd post on a thread here only to see it disappear with no explanation.

We surely don't have the same experience with reddit then, most big subreddits have a huge amount of rules and posting to them will just cause a bot/moderator to remove your thread and ask you to make changes

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

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Post by philwelch »

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.

Used to; that's what's changing.

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

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Post by jfuhrman »

001sky wrote: post #208
jfuhrman wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

User keeps seeing their comments, but other users cannot see their posts or their user page. Only Admins can shadowban. Mods can use a tool called automoderator to remove posts by certain users but only in their subreddit.

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

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Post by A_COMPUTER »

zxcvcxz wrote: post #89
smegel wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feminism too.

I'm pretty sure the radical feminist movement is being curated by Russian trolls to create social unrest.

Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA, not the KGB ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4H...

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

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Post by rtpg »

nemothekid wrote: post #205
batiudrami wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

sure, but if their homebase is on the same site as your programming community (for example), the chances of it spilling over a lot higher (especially given how reddit works, with a lot of cross polination)

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

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Post by Kalium »

dandelany wrote: post #183
Kalium wrote: post #115

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Pao is attempting to "clean up"... in an environment that cherishes its traditional freewheeling and unrestrained discourse. Even if the stuff getting cleaned up is just the stuff that most people agree deserves it - for some value of deserves - it's a troubling precedent to set. Some people find themselves wondering what opinions will be deemed unsafe next. The policies are not exactly clear-cut, and neither are the…

> what opinions will be deemed unsafe next. I think this is a little dramatic. It's not about censorship of "unsafe opinions" - you are free to hold your opinion and talk about it, just not on Reddit. It's akin to a hotel owner disallowing a Klan meeting in the conference room. I think any business owner deserves that right. > The policies are not exactly clear-cut I dunno, the blog post seems fairly clear cut to me.…

> It's akin to a hotel owner disallowing a Klan meeting in the conference room. I think any business owner deserves that right.

Sure. But if your business derives its customer base from its longstanding support of freewheeling speech, more than a little pushback is to be expected.

> I dunno, the blog post seems fairly clear cut to me. It's not about blocking content, it's about blocking subreddits whose sole purpose was harassment of individuals.

If your only context is the blog post, it seems exceptionally clear. From following some of the discussions, I'm also aware that they came down on exactly five subreddits while ignoring many others. In a few cases, they appear to have tacitly approved of some.

So the result is that it's not clear what they come down on, why, when, or what gets their attention. Except bad PR - that seems to work miracles.

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

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Post by shpx »

batiudrami wrote: post #110
mahouse wrote: post #20

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

Like the Digg HDDVD encryption drama. http://i.imgur.com/0QLFsPo.png

I love the irony of (poorly, see #8) censoring the original image

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/HD_DVD_Night_...

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

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Post by oliyoung »

voltagex_ wrote: post #129
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…

I think that's the end of my Reddit use then, the toxicity in a few fringe subreddits has spread into full blown septicemia. That's really sad - I don't think there's many communities like /r/assistance and even /r/buildapc around.

as another comment said "If you want a good reddit experience do like me: unsubscribe from most subreddits and suscribe to smaller subreddits with active moderators."

r/hiphopheads, r/nba and r/comicbooks are great communities in their own right

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

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Post by djf1 »

mintplant wrote: post #167
Goronmon wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit's userbase seems to feel especially threatened by Ellen Pao, and it's hard for me to believe that the difference is anything rational. Well, she has basically said that she wants to start cleaning up the "objectionable" sides of reddit. Plus, there is a strong sentiment that content that's critical of her (even the less hateful stuff) has been removed often in the past.

I've seen plenty of these claims but far less in the way of actual removed content. My sense is that this is largely a myth used to stir up outrage.

It's a bit harder to link to this type of stuff because by definition its been removed, but for example,

this sub has been banned today: https://np.reddit.com/r/paoiskillingreddit

here's a thread regarding a joke removed about two weeks ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/378smw/a_jo...

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

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Post by Veedrac »

emehrkay wrote: post #69
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.

It's worth noting that reddit is a big place. The majority of subs are largely free of this nonsense - it's the accumulation of it all that makes it look so prevalent.

I only noticed what was up when The Verge wrote an article on it, for example, since I tend to browse subreddits directly.

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