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[–]overallprettyaverage 1302 ポイント1303 ポイント  (542子コメント)

Still waiting on some word on the state of shadow banning

[–]TheCid 202 ポイント203 ポイント  (8子コメント)

Shadowbanning should be reserved solely for spammers. Using it on anyone else is just a hamfisted attempt to silence people, and we all know how well that works.

[–]ImAtWorkBeNice 493 ポイント494 ポイント  (183子コメント)

[–]Oxxide 273 ポイント274 ポイント  (30子コメント)

for the love of god make that a no participation link, you almost got me shadowbanned.

[–]OswaldWasAFag 180 ポイント181 ポイント  (11子コメント)

Glad you can appreciate just how ridiculous that rule is.

[–]NicholasCajun 79 ポイント80 ポイント  (9子コメント)

I still don't know if I'm allowed to follow links to subreddits I already subscribe to and then vote and comment from that link.

[–]Gimli_the_White 62 ポイント63 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Only on days that are a prime number, or during the Andorran Festival of the Mountain Haggis.

[–]nujabesrip 19 ポイント20 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Yeah and they haven't exactly cleared it up, have they?

I'm anti censorship. And anti hypocrisy. Why are subreddits like gamerghazi and shit reddit says not dismantled if this is all they do (harass and brigade).

Frankly I don't trust this site, the admins, and the CEO that this is about harassment, rather than an in crowd an out crowd and protecting a narrative.

[–]Eustace_Savage 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (0子コメント)

There's no mention of it in the rules. Nothing. I want to know what rule that guy broke that resulted in their shadowban.

It's not a fun experience to use this site knowing you could be shadow banned at any time for whatever arbitrary reason they decide at the time that isn't outlined in their site wide rules.

[–]qzapmlwxonskjdhdnejj 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

But you dont see the bigger picture! What is better then a full censored site where we can only talk about cats and funny memes? Thats a beautiful site right?

A nice and tight hugbox.

Which will strangle you if you dont follow the line.

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    [–]meeper88 19 ポイント20 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    And .... shadowbanned!

    edit: when I posted this, there was a certain message there along with a username; when you clicked on the username, you got the usual "page not found" message from shadowbanned accounts. Now, both the message and the account have been deleted.

    [–]greenduch 41 ポイント42 ポイント  (9子コメント)

    /r/announcements does not use np CSS and therefore I'm really unclear how an np link would make any difference for you? Its just a CSS hack made by users, not some magical thing that prevents shadowbans.

    [–]absurdlyobfuscated 13 ポイント14 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    RES and mobile apps have safeguards that prevent voting in np domain pages.

    [–]andytuba 15 ポイント16 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    RES fires warnings at you, but you have to manually turn on more restrictive safeguards. I know I've seen similar warnings on mobile apps but I didn't think any of them actively blocked you from participating without you explicitly turning on that behavior.

    [–]duckvimes_ 81 ポイント82 ポイント  (29子コメント)

    I'm just going to go against the circlejerk for a second and point out that there's no evidence he was shadowbanned for that comment. I see people posting things like that hundreds of times a day without getting shadowbanned.

    Edit to clarify: yes, he was shadowbanned. That does not mean he was shadowbanned because he wrote that comment.

    [–]meeper88 28 ポイント29 ポイント  (6子コメント)

    Guy currently above you in this thread repeated the message and is now also shadowbanned.

    [–]go1dfish 84 ポイント85 ポイント  (13子コメント)

    The whole problem with a shadowban is that it eliminates all evidence.

    We can't go look at his history now.

    [–]notwhereyouare 170 ポイント171 ポイント  (58子コメント)

    promote your ideas! as long as it follows our idea and these rules that we won't actually fully publish

    [–]Patrick_Surtain 84 ポイント85 ポイント  (25子コメント)

    I don't get why they even post these blogs anymore... the only way that it caters to people they want is if they only read the title and move on. The comments are brutal to the admins.

    [–]AltLogin202 74 ポイント75 ポイント  (15子コメント)

    They're pandering to advertisers. reddit is (rightfully) earning a negative reputation for some of its content and users.

    Posting meangingless feel-good drivel like this makes companies feel better about making ad buys.

    edit: when did this sub begin hiding the vote count for submissions? Fairly certain that started after the ridiculous "values" post. But it would not have mattered because that post had positive karma the first few hours. I know it was around +500 when I downvoted it.

    [–]kn0thing[S,A] 554 ポイント555 ポイント  (180子コメント)

    I hear you. This was a product decision we made literally 10 years ago -- it has not been updated and it needs to be. Back when we made it, we had only annoying marketers to deal with and it was easier to 'neuter' them (that's what we called it) and let them think they could keep spamming us so that we could focus on more important things like building the site.

    We've recently hired someone for this task and it will also be more user-friendly.

    [–]hestonkent 190 ポイント191 ポイント  (100子コメント)

    Any insight on when we might hear more about it? Glad one of you guys are finally responding to this issue.

    [–]kn0thing[S] 291 ポイント292 ポイント  (98子コメント)

    Soon as we have something to share. Admittedly, it was an ugly hack 10 years ago that's still being used -- that's a problem.

    [–]hestonkent 108 ポイント109 ポイント  (94子コメント)

    So, if I'm understanding right, the "ugly hack" is the system that is in place today, and you won't have anything to share until the system is updated?

    Well at least that's good news for people who've been interested in seeing it change.

    [–]kn0thing[S] 196 ポイント197 ポイント  (92子コメント)

    Yes, I know it hasn't come soon enough. That's on us.

    [–]matt01ss 40 ポイント41 ポイント  (33子コメント)

    Shadowbans still work well for spammers/advertisers. I suppose a new "type" of ban will be needed.

    [–]ErenBasukezu 64 ポイント65 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    I suppose a new "type" of ban

    Like... a regular ban, with a regular message stating "You have been banned".

    [–]kn0thing[S] 67 ポイント68 ポイント  (29子コメント)

    It's actually still used a vast majority of the time (north of 90%) on spammers/advertisers. I know it's an easy meme to latch on to, but that's the truth of it.

    By my estimate, a significant percentage of the few people who do get banned and aren't spammers/advertisers, could be reformed if we just made it all more explicit -- that's what we're going to do.

    [–]Dramatic_______Pause 25 ポイント26 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    How about adding a retroactive appeal process as well? My original account was shadowbanned after years with no idea why, and any message to admins goes unanswered...

    [–]needless_insults 38 ポイント39 ポイント  (7子コメント)

    And what about those of us who had accounts get shadow banned for unknown reasons and have been ignored by the admin team completely, to the point where we don't even know why we we're banned despite asking multiple times.

    Edit: this direct reply will get ignored too.

    [–]DownvotesAdminPosts 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    And what about those of us who had accounts get shadow banned for unknown reasons and have been ignored by the admin team completely

    I'm one of those, too!

    Edit: this direct reply will get ignored too.

    sadly, yep

    [–]hestonkent 127 ポイント128 ポイント  (55子コメント)

    There's a mass mob mentality in this thread that'll probably end up torching your comments, but serious props for answering the question that's on a lot of people's mind, and admitting that there's a problem.

    Not many websites have that admin-to-end-user connection quite like reddit does.

    [–]kn0thing[S] 124 ポイント125 ポイント  (49子コメント)

    It's all good. I've seen a few of these in my day. Heh.

    I don't blame you for being frustrated with it -- it's a bad user experience and we lose plenty of otherwise great users because they just don't understand how the site works and have a bad user experience (with no explanation or clear reform process).

    [–]Adwinistrator 45 ポイント46 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    they just don't understand how the site works

    I was shadowbanned for voting on posts in a thread that I was linked to from another sub. I received no warning, just poof. I have been using this site for a long time, and did what most users end up doing. Reading discussions, voting, participating, following links, reading, voting, etc.

    The sub I came from was not some meta-sub, where people are directed to posts, it was just an example someone used in a discussion.

    I ended up in this small political sub, and ended up voting on posts based on the normal rules, I was upvoting well thought out posts and good points, and downvoting irrational and sensationalist posts that were diminishing the discussion.

    I was shadowbanned, and was never informed until a bot let me know.

    The admin I spoke with said I was part of a brigade...

    As far as I am concerned, unless the sub in question is some meta-sub, or the post you get linked from is inciting a brigade, simply following a link and participating in a sub you aren't a member of, is NOT a brigade.

    Just because a bunch of people did the same thing as me, does not make me part of some orchestrated group skirting reddit's rules. I was simply one person, perusing through reddit, voting on posts, and for that I was shadowbanned.

    [–]throwawaythedog 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    Yea, if you ever follow a link to a sub you basically have to ban yourself from ever voting there for fear of being shadowbanned across the entire site. All of reddit is links to other things on the internet, but if that link is to another part of reddit you get banned for following it? Seems pretty stupid to me.

    [–]hestonkent 56 ポイント57 ポイント  (11子コメント)

    it's a bad user experience and we lose plenty of otherwise great users because they just don't understand how the site works and have a bad user experience

    So much this, thank you for saying it. According to the current rules, since my other account /u/CationBot is banned from /r/IAmA (due to their no novelty account rule, no other reason) then this account would technically warrant a shadowban because I have since participated in AMAs. I think some people would be upset if either accounts went missing. Maybe it's wishful thinking...

    [–]drocks27 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    yep would be upset. You also do bring up a really interesting gray area . It's not like you were not welcome, but just one of your accounts falls into the not welcome group.

    [–]francis2559 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Can confirm, would be upset.

    [–]Squishumz 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    they just don't understand how the site works

    Because the rules aren't clear.

    [–]two_xjs 71 ポイント72 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    wow an actual response to a shadowban question

    [–]_____FRESH_____ 63 ポイント64 ポイント  (8子コメント)

    New message: "Congratulations...you have been shadow banned!"

    [–]leefna 31 ポイント32 ポイント  (13子コメント)

    Is reddit, the product, a gun-wielding robot that goes around forcing admins to shadowban people?

    [–]TotesMessenger 50 ポイント51 ポイント  (20子コメント)

    [–]overallprettyaverage 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    It's awesome to hear you guys are looking at this critically. It seems that this is an issue that's bothering a very large number of users, and for good reason, now that you're pushing the transparency and freedom of speech thing. Maybe a blog post on this would put a lot of people at ease.

    [–]AndroidL 76 ポイント77 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    Yeah, I don't understand why they're ignoring this issue. According to the post, they 'value' "freedom of expression" and "open discussion". Shadow banning kind of goes against this. I'm not saying I disagree with shadow banning, but there needs to be a warning or some notifications. They also say they value "humanity". Imagine everyone you meet in your life pretends you don't exist and no one responds or talks to you - that isn't humane and is essentially what shadow banning is.

    [–]Batty-Koda 48 ポイント49 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I'm not saying I disagree with shadow banning, but there needs to be a warning or some notifications.

    Then yes, you ARE saying you disagree with it. The "Shadow" part of "shadow ban" means not having those things.

    The reason it doesn't have those things is so spammers don't know to just to make a new account. Same deal for trolls and brigades. Whether or not you're okay with that, I don't know, but if you're going to not be okay with no-notifications, you are by definition not okay with shadow bans.

    [–]Thesemenmaster 25 ポイント26 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    They ignore it because they don't value "freedom of expression" nor "open discussion." They just want it to seem like they do.

    [–]Bardfinn 154 ポイント155 ポイント x4 (42子コメント)

    You're going to wait a very long time.

    I'm not reddit; I don't work for them nor speak for them.

    I'm a retired IT / programmer / sysadmin / computer scientist.

    25 years ago I started running dial-up bulletin board systems, and dealing with what are today called "trolls" — sociopaths and individuals who believe that the rules do not apply to them. This was before the Internet was open to the public, before AOL patched in, before the Eternal September.

    Before CallerID was made a public specification, I learned of it, and built my own electronics to pick up the CallerID signal and pipe it to my bulletin board's software, where I kept a blacklist of phone numbers that were not allowed to log in to my BBS, they'd get hung up on; I wrote and soldered and built — before many of you were even born — the precursor of the shadowban.

    You will never be told exactly what will earn a shadowban, because telling you means telling the sociopaths, and then they will figure out a way to get around it, or worse, they will file shitty, frivolous lawsuits in bad faith for being shadowbanned while "not having done anything wrong". That will cost reddit time and money to respond to those shitty, frivolous lawsuits (I speak from multiple instances of experience with this).

    Shadowbans are intentionally a grey area, an unknown, a nebulous and unrestricted tool that the administrators will use at their sole discretion in order to keep reddit running, to keep hordes of spammers off the site, to keep child porn off the site and out of your face as you read this with your children looking over your shoulder, your boss looking over your shoulder, your family looking over your shoulder, your government looking over your shoulder.

    Running a 50-user bulletin board system, even with a black list to keep the shittiest sociopaths off it, was nearly a full-time job. Running a website with millions of users is a phenomenal undertaking.

    I read a lot of comments from a small group that are upset by shadowbans, are afraid of the bugbear, or perhaps have been touched by it and are yet somehow still here commenting.

    I think the only person that really has any cause to talk about shadowban unfairness is the one guy who was commenting here for three years and suddenly figured it out, and was nothing but smiles and gratefulness to finally be talking to people. I think he has the right attitude.

    Running reddit is hard. If you don't want to be shadowbanned, follow the rules of reddit, and ask nicely for it to be lifted if you suspect you are shadowbanned.

    [–]floor-pi 25 ポイント26 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    one guy who was commenting here for three years and suddenly figured it out

    Holy shit.

    [–]Gimli_the_White 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    with what are today called "trolls" — sociopaths and individuals who believe that the rules do not apply to them.

    Just as an FYI, and giving you a courtesy you don't give others - this attitude is why I stopped listening to you. Based on your perception of what someone does or says, you will delete them from access to your discussion forum. You will not tell them why, nor will you listen to appeals.

    People misunderstand each other, people misunderstand rules, and people get frustrated. Anyone who's not willing to accept the vast diversity of humanity and instead insists that everyone exist on their terms has issues.

    [–]rtechie1 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    25 years ago I started running dial-up bulletin board systems, and dealing with what are today called "trolls"

    They were called trolls back then too. The term "troll" was invented on Usenet and is usually misused. The correct terms are "flames" and "flamers".

    You will never be told exactly what will earn a shadowban, because telling you means telling the sociopaths,

    The sociopaths already know. The problem with the shadowbans is that they don't work.

    [–]Im_a_wet_towel 43 ポイント44 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    If shadowbanning only stopped spammers, or child porn, or whatever, then that would be fine.

    But it doesn't. Shadowbanning is being used as a tool to direct conversations into desired directions. Modding is being used to direct conversation into desired directions.

    I'm not doubting your expertise, I'm just saying that your post is a strawman at best.

    [–]Ric_Adbur 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Also, since when has the "if you don't have anything to hide then you don't have to fear the law" argument ever been legitimate or used in any other context than to make excuses for unjust authoritarian practices?

    [–]NetWWWWWWWWWWWorking 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    They will file shitty, frivolous lawsuits in bad faith for being shadowbanned while "not having done anything wrong". That will cost reddit time and money to respond to those shitty, frivolous lawsuits

    right. Of course...

    The "troll sociopaths" aren't concerned with what earns a shadowban. They can easily check and have a sense of when it happens. It's no secret to them and they get around it by creating a new account. Shadow bans on reddit are completely dissimilar to your blocking of phone numbers and whatever other technology you worked on back in the day.

    How can one be expected to just "follow the rules" if they aren't explicitly stated? There are plenty of shadowbans given out to users to fall afoul to vote manipulation rules. Well, presumably, because shadowbans that people get for "brigrading" aren't actually found under that section of the rules.

    The problem isn't necessarily that shadowbans aren't made clear, but that they're found to be inconsistent. It's something that is often at the whim of the administrator. You might be vote manipulating one day but not the next. One user might but not the other. Was that personal information? One sub would have been nuked but not some other.

    It shouldn't be the responsibility of the userbase to discern rules from administrator actions.

    [–]Sargon16 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    You should take do some research into Riot Games and the League of Legends community. If you're not familiar they were notorious for a horrid, toxic environment. Riot Games put a huge amount of effort into studying how to improve the community, even hiring psychologists to study it.

    To make a long story short, one of the biggest successes they had was actually quite simple. When issuing any type of ban, they very very specifically tell you why you were banned, exactly what you said or did wrong, exactly what the relevant rule is. Doing this showed an immediate improvement in the community.

    This is the dead opposite of a shadowban. A shadowban you don't even know your banned, let alone for what reason, for what post or what rule.

    [–]IAmYourDad_ 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Running reddit is hard. If you don't want to be shadowbanned, follow the rules of reddit[1] , and ask nicely for it to be lifted if you suspect you are shadowbanned.'

    Bullshit. The problem with shadowbanning isn't about killing the legit offenders. The major problem with it is some powertripping admins coughtthatcupcakebitchcought abuse it because they doesn't like what you say. AKA, censorship.

    [–]auxiliary-character 43 ポイント44 ポイント  (16子コメント)

    Security by obscurity, yay!

    [–]Bardfinn 36 ポイント37 ポイント  (8子コメント)

    Security by null routing. It's used to combat email spammers, it's used to combat Denial of Service attempts, it's used to combat password brute force grinder bots. Tricking them into wasting their resources so they don't rework and refocus.

    Real people can be identified, but only if they behave like real people, and participate in the community.

    [–]auxiliary-character 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (7子コメント)

    You will never be told exactly what will earn a shadowban, because telling you means telling the sociopaths, and then they will figure out a way to get around it...

    The thing protecting you here is that the nature of shadowbans is obscured from the sociopaths. If that's not security by obscurity, then I guess I'm not sure what the phrase is intended to be used for.

    [–]christosoday 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (16子コメント)

    I would just like to know what EXACTLY calls for a shawdowbob! I see no exact rules about it, and literally saw someone get banned over saying a few names it seemed like.

    [–]got_milk4 298 ポイント299 ポイント  (233子コメント)

    This is a very abstract blog post - what, exactly, do the admins plan to do when complains of harassment are submitted?

    [–]Furyhunter 58 ポイント59 ポイント  (11子コメント)

    http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/35ym8t/promote_ideas_protect_people/cr917vo

    essentially, reddit administration will investigate harassment reports rather than subreddit mods.

    [–]got_milk4 92 ポイント93 ポイント  (8子コメント)

    Doesn't really answer the question though. What happens if someone is found to be breaking the rules? Do they get banned? Are there lesser offences which would be a warning versus a ban? If they were banned, would they know they were banned or would it be a shadowban?

    This is the problem with these blog posts as of late - they're very abstract with "big ideas" and absolutely zero documentation on how these "big ideas" see implementations.

    [–]Furyhunter 46 ポイント47 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    this is a legitimate complaint and the way I perceive it, they're going to handle it on a case-by-case basis.

    I think that's probably the only correct way to handle harassment reports. How do you classify and group different levels of harassment? How do you determine ban lengths for something like that? The kinds of people actively harassing users are making multiple accounts and doing everything they can to continue harassing. It doesn't make sense to apply traditional internet moderation policy to something so complicated.

    edit: thx for gold I think

    [–]lamaksha77 97 ポイント98 ポイント  (50子コメント)

    It seems to be written as vaguely as possible, so that the admins have the right to scrub any discussions/ subs that are going to affect their going rate with the advertisers.

    /r/fatpeoplehate is just one Anderson Cooper special away from getting the axe. Similarly, I would expect this new rule to be used liberally whenever the circlejerk gets too focused on a celebrity, and their promoter gives a call/cheque to the Reddit admins. Feast your eyes on this Beyonce, motherfuckers, the wild west days of Reddit seems to be truly over.

    [–]tkms 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (9子コメント)

    Well, time to move to Voat?

    [–]lamaksha77 23 ポイント24 ポイント  (6子コメント)

    Voat

    Yup, I think its time to move on to a newer platform. As someone who came here from Digg, this is fucking deja vu. And in retrospect this should have been obvious.

    Once a company becomes this big and this mainstream, it is impossible to truly allow for free expression on one hand, and maximise revenue on the other. Instead its up to the users to move on to the next start-up that is willing to do so.

    [–]Nurgle 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    As someone who came here from Digg

    So wait if all you folks from digg bounce, will reddit get good again?

    [–]tkms 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    I've been on Voat for a while (as well as Hacker News, also a great place), but I'll try to replace more of my activity here with activity there. I already let my reddit gold expire intentionally, and don't plan to purchase any more for an indefinite amount of time.

    [–]SuperConductiveRabbi 132 ポイント133 ポイント  (127子コメント)

    What about when the perceived perpetrator of harassment is an entire subreddit? E.g., is /r/fatpeoplehate (which i use as a barometer for free speech on Reddit) considered to be harassment under this policy, even if it's not directed at specific users?

    [–]Sigerets 195 ポイント196 ポイント  (32子コメント)

    You are making me feel a bit unsafe here. I require a safe space at all times. Safety. Safe. Safeness. Safeteosity.

    admins pls ban thx

    [–]drcross 84 ポイント85 ポイント  (27子コメント)

    Time was, if you didnt like what was written on the intenet you turned off the screen and walked fucking outside. I can't stand this fucking politically correct bullshit. We need to tell people to harden the fuck up, use an anonymous internet name and don't feed the trolls, problem solved.

    [–]lamaksha77 59 ポイント60 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    Actually, I feel the subreddit system adequately deals with this. Don't like a community, or their common interests? Fine, unsubscribe and find something else that doesn't offend you.

    The problem is, having lots of little subreddits for freely discussing anything under the sun - from loving Jesus, to atheism, to hating blackpeople, to loving black cock - while this is all very good for freedom of expression and all that liberal cool-aid, its not going to sit well from a marketing perspective.

    Which is what this gradual shift is about. Scrub up the more unsavoury parts of Reddit under the guise of 'protecting people', and try to improve the brand image of Reddit among people that really matter to the admins (hint: its not the vast majority of users, unless you happen to have an extra 6figure sum and an ad campaign you want to push off)

    [–]pie-oh 21 ポイント22 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    As with every post the last week it's a lot of hot air.

    It's like the TSA, theatre to suggest they are active in trying to create a better community. While also spending their time trying to sell their next product.

    In all honesty, the last posts have felt more disconnected from the community. In terms of voice, and behaviour, than I've ever seen before.

    Edit: Can I also point out what it's like contacting the admins as is? They don't do anything. I only presume because the amount of requests they have. So what good is it adding more work for them?

    [–]70616c616b6b6164616e 287 ポイント288 ポイント  (60子コメント)

    What if it's the mods of a subreddit (like /r/india) doing the harassment?

    [–]SHITTY_GIMMICK_ANUS 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    What did the mods on /r/india do?

    [–]5days[A] 189 ポイント190 ポイント  (28子コメント)

    Moderators are still users and the harassment will still be investigated by us and treated as we would any other user.

    [–]Khiva 33 ポイント34 ポイント  (13子コメント)

    Can we get any sense of what method you plan to apply when investigating accusations of harassment (particularly against mods), by what standards you'd choose which accusations to investigate, and whether you plan to publish openly the results and findings from your investigations?

    It's a tricky needle to thread, particularly since people would clearly try to game the system the more they know about it, but there's something to be said for openly publicizing "this is what got you banned, this is what we won't tolerate."

    [–]slccsoccer28 47 ポイント48 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    What are the appropriate ways to report said harassment?

    EDIT: I'm an idiot and didn't fully read the article.

    If you are being harassed, report the private message, post or comment and user by emailing contact@reddit.com or modmailing us; include external links if they are relevant.

    [–]kn0thing[S] 41 ポイント42 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    from the post:

    If you are being harassed, report the private message, post or comment and user by emailing contact AT reddit.com or modmailing us; include external links if they are relevant.

    [–]slccsoccer28 34 ポイント35 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    I'm really sorry I some how missed that line. I appreciate you posting it here :)

    [–]Kalium 45 ポイント46 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    Looking at the comments, and what's been upvoted, it becomes clear to me that there is a problem. Reflexive cynicism and distrust rule the day.

    /u/kn0thing and /u/5days it seems that Reddit has lost the enthusiastic trust and support of its community. How do you plan to address this?

    [–]K_Lobstah 45 ポイント46 ポイント  (14子コメント)

    So this will be enforced by admin, but how is reporting of it handled? Just modmail to /r/reddit.com? Are there plans to increase the efficiency or response rate for messages sent there? Will moderator reports of other users being harassed be given the same level of attention?

    The vast majority of subscribers aren't even aware they can contact admin. We receive reports of harassment in modmail quite frequently.

    [–]cj_would_lovethis 374 ポイント375 ポイント  (51子コメント)

    [–]Lurlur 94 ポイント95 ポイント  (18子コメント)

    My guess? Being disregarded as moderators have autonomy over their subreddits. People are always gonna whine when they break rules and get caught.

    [–]oBBKo 42 ポイント43 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Lemme guess, you are a mod.

    edit: OF 35 SUBS! /u/Lurlur

    [–]nvolker 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    Moderators are users, and as such they can be reported.

    [–]Outlulz 35 ポイント36 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    You can't report a mod for harassment just because they banned you from their subreddit.

    [–]vehementsquirrel 268 ポイント269 ポイント  (92子コメント)

    When will you clarify what constitutes brigading? Will you continue to ban people in secret for rules that are kept hidden from the users?

    With regard to the new harassment rule, what remedy will Reddit admins employ against users accused of harassment? Will they also be shadowbanned, or will they be told they were banned and given an opportunity to respond to the accusation?

    [–]RobKhonsu 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    "Brigading" is what really really irks me about reddit in the current day. reddit by it's design is a "brigading" machine. It's sole purpose is to share links with other content around the web for people to vote and comment on.

    If I share a link to FoxNews lets say, and FoxNews then get's "Brigaded" with a bunch of users from reddit which floods the comments with remarks that FoxNews may not appreciate. This is perfectly reasonable behavior.

    However if you were to do the same exact thing on a link to /r/FoxNews all of a sudden this is "Brigading" and apparently against the rules (not actually against the rules). "Brigading" being a negative thing is a very un-reddit like concept.

    Now I understand that people may want to use reddit to share opinions and views of a specific click, but banning people for brigading is not the answer. The answer is to give mods softer tools to regulate discussion as appropriate for their own sub.

    Mods need tools to lock posts and threads from more comments.

    Mods need tools to freeze posts and threads from more votes.

    Mods need tools to hide posts and threads by default.

    Further; Mods need the ability to document why these actions were taken to provide transparency for visitors and subscribers of a sub. Also users should be able to vote on these comments to provide feedback to the Mods.

    Additionally mods need softer tools to regulate participating in a sub than simply making the sub private.

    Mods should be able to regulate a minimum subscription period before posting, commenting, and voting.

    Mods should also be able to regulate users from posting, and voting before receiving a minimum number of votes on that sub for their own comments and/or posts (where appropriate)

    For instance, a user needs to be subscribed for 24hrs before commenting, they need 25 positive votes on their comments before they can vote and 50 positive votes before they can post. Alternately you may want a sub where a user may need to post something first and receive a set number of votes before they can comment and/or vote.

    In my opinion these kinds of policies and systems are how you protect niche communities from receiving unwanted influence, NOT by invisibly banning participation for indiscretionary reasons.

    [–]Levy_Wilson 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    The whole concept of being banned for "brigading" needs to die. It would solve the entire problem. Reddit is the only website that I know of where you can be banned for linking to another subset of that website from another subset.

    [–]caboose309 150 ポイント151 ポイント  (86子コメント)

    Considering SRS is a huge subreddit and is continually brigading the shit out of anyone they don't like, I really want to hear what their excuse for letting it happen is.

    [–]robotortoise 76 ポイント77 ポイント  (32子コメント)

    It's not the worst offender anymore.

    /r/bestof and /r/subredditdrama are. Both use NP links, but the mods and NP links can only do so much...

    [–]DrFilbert 30 ポイント31 ポイント  (8子コメント)

    What definition of brigading would apply to SRS but not /r/bestof, /r/worstof, and /r/defaultgems?

    [–]thefran 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    No definition. Worstof is routinely downvote brigading and needs to be shut down. Bestof is routinely brigading in general and np links need to be enforced.

    [–]krautchanner 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    It seems like Reddit is slowly being taken over by Chairman Pao and his goon squad of SJWs & asslickers who are desperately struggling for power and influence on this sinking ship, and in the process, Selling out their userbase and subjecting them to series of authoritarian edicts and deranged threats. They are only doing this because Reddit is so big that they think themselves untouchable, which is of course true to certain extent and allows them to push the census to whatever direction they want.

    The only way we can fight this is to completely ignore everything they are introducing. Do not be frightened by their threats. Do not let them instill fear on your free self-expression. What's the worse you can lose? Worthless karma & modship on some internet rooms? Who cares... Your freedom of speech is worth more than that! Personally I have never censored my opinions on this site, and I'm certainly not gonna start now. I express myself as I see fit, and I don't need the moral compass of some self-righteous delusional "protectors of people" to tell me what I am (not) allowed to say. If you don't mind, I will just proceed to express myself and my opinions, free of filters, and if that gets me banned, then so be it.

    As of today I am re-instating my Adblock on this site. I already swore off buying gold since the last shit you pulled. I urge everyone to do the same.

    [–]2015goodyear 56 ポイント57 ポイント  (35子コメント)

    So no new features or anything, just a new policy? That could be good. Can you elaborate on the policy though?

    What happens if someone is reported for harassment? Reddit staff decides whether or not its harassment and then..... removes the content? Bans the harasser? Shadowbans the harasser? What's the plan?

    [–]itty53 50 ポイント51 ポイント  (14子コメント)

    It's not a new policy, it's the same policy they have had in the past.

    They've (admins) always held a double-standard and held to it that they can enforce 'rules' when they choose to and then let others slide when they choose to. It's always been the unofficial policy.

    Now that's official policy: "We'll ban you for speaking about the wrong ideas, and call it 'harassment' because someone 'felt in danger', and no: We won't tell you what the 'wrong ideas' are. Figure that out on your own".

    I should point out that my wife feels extreme fear and panic at the sight of a spider. Should users who post spider pictures be banned now?

    [–]kvachon 95 ポイント96 ポイント  (11子コメント)

    So is stuff like /r/justneckbeardthings and /r/fatpeoplehate against the rules now? Systematic and continued actions to demean people which would make any reasonable person feel unable to discuss any ideas that might go against the majority opinion? Or is it more for stuff like http://redd.it/35vv1v or http://redd.it/35xc8d which involves stalking a person to see what they post about where and for what purpose, solely to bring it forward to a group of people to judge and demean said person.

    Which of those is now harrasement. If none are, then what is a concrete example of it. Does it need to be reported to you by the person being harrased? Does the admin team have to decide that they consider the treatment harassment? What constitutes feeling "like reddit isnt a safe place" seeing as its website with text comments.

    To be honest, it seems like this rule is going to open a new can of worms, not solve any issues. You should either not allow mean comments, or not moderate legal comments. Trying to find that grey area is going to require you to choose sides on infinite endless battles between groups of people that honestly hate eachother. I know reddit tries its hardest to be a safe and friendly place, but there's a sub-section of this site that wants nothing more than to hate on things. Culture, people, trends, politics, reddit itself. ITs a pretty hate filled site outside of saner places like /r/aww or /r/askscience. ITs one of the prices you need to pay when you dont require anyone to reveal who they are. You cant expect anonymous people to retain their inhibitions and manners.

    [–]trimalchio420 44 ポイント45 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    You won't get a straight answer on this.

    [–]PedroIsWatching 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    The fact they finally gave a response on shadowbans in this very thread is surprising, though.

    [–]trimalchio420 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    The one where kn0thing just says "oh yeah thats a problem"? Or was there one of substance that i missed

    [–]wantingsilence 75 ポイント76 ポイント  (31子コメント)

    The harassed can report their so called harassers, correct? Will the harassers get any notification or chance to defend themselves, or will they just be shadowbanned?

    [–]itty53 139 ポイント140 ポイント  (55子コメント)

    Systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone in a way that would make a reasonable person (1) conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation, or (2) fear for their safety or the safety of those around them.

    What cracks me up is that this will apply to both sides of many arguments, but only one side is bound to get punished for it.

    For instance: Is it safe for a conspiracy theorist to express their ideas and participate in conversation without being ridiculed? What about someone who thinks vaccines are dangerous? Or are those the dangerous ideas that need to be censored?

    What does 'harassment' mean too? If someone calls me a name in a response, once (not-repeated), is that harassment? I've been insulted. I've been put 'in danger' of feeling insulted or harassed. Is this just a big 'be polite' rule? Because I've known plenty of polite trolls.

    I'm not trying to defend harassers or anything - I've been the target of one individual in particular who followed and replied to comments as old as 6 months (and the admins banned him as soon as I reported him) - but the 'rules' that are being written here are vague and thus, flexible: They can apply when the admins choose and not apply when the admins don't. Which is exactly what's been happening, albeit unofficially. Now it seems it's official: Reddit admins will censor you and your ideas if they perceive them as 'scary'.

    By this rule, it sounds to me that all the GamerGate/GamerGhazi infighting is banned: Those groups are both systematically harassing and demeaning each other. /r/fatpeoplehate seems a systematic harassment subreddit towards fat people (most of which are non-redditors).

    And finally, I note that 'reasonable' is left out: All you have to be is afraid in order to claim you're being harassed. You don't have to be reasonably afraid, just afraid. I should note that most fears aren't reasonable at all. Nope, it says reasonable people. I wonder how they'll define 'reasonable'.

    [–]pastofor 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    Or are those the dangerous ideas that need to be censored?

    Their post specifically says you can attack ideas (just not harrass people).

    That's another problem with reddit... the majority through downvotes can simply suppress minority opinions.

    [–]bioemerl 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    People will often take any attack on their ideas as an attack on them.

    [–]MillenniumFalc0n 41 ポイント42 ポイント  (19子コメント)

    I was about to write up something about this. The problem with this rule's wording is that you can't maintain a "safe platform" for both /r/judaism and /r/gasthekikes.

    [–]danheskett 92 ポイント93 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    It's odd to have a post one day from admin's about transparency, and then the next day, have an entire new post which involves new rules that are nearly 100% opaque.

    The definition of harassment is so vague as to be useless, as are the penalties.

    [–]fortified_concept 27 ポイント28 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    It was a preemptive strike to pretend they're transparent before screwing the userbase with completely vague rules that give the admins power to censor whoever they like or whichever group they like.

    [–]Kalium 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    The definition of harassment is so vague as to be useless, as are the penalties.

    Often, that's the point of rules from the perspective of administrations. They give you enforcement ability and space to operate as you see fit while sharply limiting the ability of people to contest.

    Taken to extremes, you get authoritarian nations where the law is whatever the current strongman says it is. In practice, you either wind up setting up pseudo-legal-systems that don't really satisfy users while being very inefficient or you rely on administration internal self-enforcement. Neither works perfectly.

    [–]NeonMan 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    So /r/shitredditsays usets will be banned pretty fast I guess.

    Right?

    [–]backtowriting 30 ポイント31 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    So, how do you distinguish harassment from legitimate criticism? And how can that be done in a transparent way?

    Personally, I'm not sure it's possible to always make the distinction. What may look like legitimate criticism to X may seem like harassment to Y.

    Was e.g. criticism of Adria Richards after the dongle-gate incident harassment? All of it? At what point is the line crossed?

    [–]cjcrashoveride 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Wouldn't the easier solution have just been to make the report button actually, ya know, do something?

    [–]ecafyelims 31 ポイント32 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    Reading over the survey results. I can't see where people were complaining about being harassed. I even went to the survey CSV and did a CTRL-F for "harass" and came up with 0 results.

    I'm not convinced harassment is as big of an issue as you think.

    Instead, like you say, the reason they don't recommend to friends is "they want to avoid exposing friends to hate and offensive content"

    Well, offensive content can mean any range of things. I know a lot of people who are offended by the science behind climate change. I know others who are offended by LGBT in the public. I know a lot of people who are offended by nudity, in general.

    I hope you're not going to start removing content based on reports of it being "offensive," and I'm scared you'll start shadowbanning users under general guideline of "harassment" such as calling out CEO's for misconduct.

    Please tell me this isn't the plan.

    [–]rantelz 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    My guess is that they want to get rid of some of the "problem" subreddits (the openly and viciously racist ones, for example). And for that I really can't blame them, I would probably do the same if it were my site. I don't think they are just using this as a cover to start removing content that they disagree with politically. Although it is their site and they certainly have the right to do that. I suspect their intentions are good here and that people are overreacting.

    [–]scy1192 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Reading over the survey results[1] . I can't see where people were complaining about being harassed. I even went to the survey CSV[2] and did a CTRL-F for "harass" and came up with 0 results.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdata/comments/35ykli/what_we_learned_from_our_march_2015_survey/cr93c8f?context=1

    tl;dr open-ended responses weren't included due to lots of personal information shared in them

    [–]muahaa-the-french 23 ポイント24 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    First they came for /r/CoonTown, and I did not speak out— Because I was not subscribed to /r/CoonTown.

    Then they came for /r/TheRedPill, and I did not speak out— Because I was not subscribed to /r/TheRedPill.

    Then they came for /r/GamerGate, and there was no one left to speak for me

    ;-;

    [–]tacticalbaconX 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    So vague, politically correct "safe zones" and corrupt cronyism for topics that make the Reddit owners look bad.

    Got it.

    [–]Taedirk 28 ポイント29 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone in a way that would make a reasonable person (1) conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation

    Having my account flagged to hide my posts from appearing to others with no warning, no confirmation outside third party checks, and little-to-no remedy makes me conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express ideas. Disagree with the wrong person and my voice is silenced for all.

    [–]neohephaestus 107 ポイント108 ポイント  (18子コメント)

    So you're finally getting rid of ShitRedditSays?

    [–]1wf 280 ポイント281 ポイント  (160子コメント)

    I hope we aren't trying to become Tumblr. The internet isn't a safe space. It never has been and hopefully never will be - safe is boring, heavily regulated and Brave New Worldish.

    I don't like personal attacks either - but this appears to be your grounds to ban subs like /r/fatpeoplehate and /r/fatlogic or /r/CandidFashionPolice .

    You truly didn't clarify what actions you plan to take to stop harassment. Its either a toothless policy OR a policy absent clear standards/transparency. . .

    [–]XPythagoras 91 ポイント92 ポイント  (39子コメント)

    Totally agree. I don't want reddit to become a padded cell like Tumblr or a dirty box in an alleyway like 4chan. I just want reddit to stay as is.

    [–]chugz 35 ポイント36 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Buddy Fletcher, husband of Reddit CEO Ellen Pao, is being described as being the operator of Ponzi scheme after his now bankrupt firm diverted money for their own use and, according to the Chapter 11 trustee, committed fraud against investors. Three Louisiana pension funds lost $144 million.

    shadow bans for everyone.

    [–]moush 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    So does this mean that subs like SRS/SRD are going to be banned considering they promote attacking?

    [–]risingstars 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Have affairs, be a bigot, sue your employers over bullshiy, cover it up from reddit. :)

    [–]AustNerevar 45 ポイント46 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    Protection from harassment...

    Safe space...

    Shadowbans...

    You guys are just trying to run off most of the userbase, aren't you.

    Don't turn Reddit into Tumblr. It isn't want the majority of users want.

    [–]philmoskowitz 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Humans always perceive control as success when it really it's the calm before the storm/collapse/loss. We're tricked by our perspective, ALL the time.

    [–]tacticalbaconX 9 ポイント10 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Don't turn Reddit into Tumblr.

    That's exactly what this is.

    [–]Mcsquizzy 28 ポイント29 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    What is with all of the reddit propaganda lately? Seems very unusual and out-of-the-blue for the random face-saving posts about how great Reddit is

    [–]piitza 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    So when are we utilizing the thought police? Seems like that's next.

    Thing is, the internet is sorta like a public place. You don't have to go to those places if it has things you don't want to see/hear. So there is a subreddit you don't like? DON'T GO THERE.

    If people are posting in a subreddit, and they are reported, the mods can handle that. While some mods are corrupt and use the power of a mod (apparently the only power they can get their hands on in their lives) to do things that aren't cool.

    You are not entitled to a safe place on the internet. It is the goddamn internet. Everyone can get to anything that is on said internet. You're removing the personal accountability and responsibility from users to not be a fucking retard and put their whole lives on the internet.

    With 35% of the user base concerned over censorship what is being done about that?

    As another user noted, if you didn't like something that was on the internet you turned your PC off and went outside. People need to harden up, this politically correct and feels bullshit needs to stop.

    Encourage people to go see a therapist if they get an anxiety attack ranging from being obese and seeing a person skinnier than them, or a female becoming uncomfortable because a guy said hello and smiled on the street or WHATEVER.

    I notice people are getting banned from subreddits where they don't even post or browse there because they browse a specific subreddit or have upvoted, commented, or anything there. All of this under the guise of "protecting their subreddits users". Sounds like thought police to me, if people do go into a sub and post shit that's not liked, you report to the moderators, and if rules are broken they'll handle the comment accordingly per the rules. That is already a system in place. People will come back and it'll happen again until they get bored and stop posting. But banning for not even going to the sub? That is the shit that pisses me off.

    Reddit is not responsible for the protection of their users to a degree. Users are responsible for what they post, share, or read on a forum that almost anyone can see

    This site really pisses me off, and really seems SJW more than anything. I hate saying that, but it is. Its really disturbing to see a bunch of dirty shit the CEO has done with her past, her husband doesn't seem like a stand up guy, and now all this crap is starting? I'm ready to jump ship when you guys are, because I see a huge migration here shortly.

    Sorry for the rant but this legitimately upsets me.

    [–]DeadGamerWalking 66 ポイント67 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    /r/ShitRedditSays makes it unsafe for me to express my ideas. Will you ban that subreddit?

    [–]J-Unleashed 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Seriously. They don't approve of free speech because of some shitty view that feelings are more important than free speech, and it's really shitty that they can brigade and harass other subreddits and users and face no repercussions.

    SRS is essentially a band of people who only wish to police people's thoughts.

    [–]Manadox 25 ポイント26 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    censor free thought, supress dissenting opinions

    FTFY

    [–]dummystupid 30 ポイント31 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    There's a lot of admin blog posts lately.

    Not sure how to feel about all the "announcements".

    [–]I_smell_awesome 53 ポイント54 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    Why do I get the feeling that this is just a first step into removing downvotes?

    [–]heyitsfred 22 ポイント23 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I worry about this as well. Downvotes are what make Reddit work. Without downvotes, you end up with Facebook, a fluffy container of inoffensive, surface-level garbage, where nobody is allowed to point out or demote low-quality content. But it's really advertiser friendly, and has a lot more mainstream appeal, two things that Reddit does not have but likely really wants.

    [–]graffiti81 34 ポイント35 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    So basically you interviewed SRS.

    [–]CttCJim 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    is it harassment if someone bans you from a sub you've never posted in? it feels like it is.

    [–]RaiderInRed505 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Buzzwords. Corporate buzzwords everywhere.

    [–]i_lost_my_password 43 ポイント44 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    On the internet, as in real life, I value liberty over safety.

    [–]intellos 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I'm a bit confused. What actually changed here? Was Harassment not already against the rules?

    [–]Ios7 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    It's digg.com all over again.

    [–]DamnTheseLurkers 4 ポイント5 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I wonder if I'm witnessing the beginning of the downfall for reddit. Safe place? This place got where it is now because it was NOT a "safe place".

    All I see behind this bullshit is that a lot more censorship will come, anyone with dissenting comments will be labeled harassers and removed.

    [–]LeafRunner 3 ポイント4 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Buddy Fletcher, husband of Reddit CEO Ellen Pao, is being described as being the operator of Ponzi scheme

    ~144 million dollars of a pension fund was lost

    Ellen Pao is now accused of frivolous lawsuits to try and stay afloat and some other shit. Seeing as she is a CEO of a large company and has a fraudster for a husband I think it's safe to say we have a textbook ASPD/Sociopath on our hands

    [–]niczar 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Would you care to comment on this occurence, whereby a guy's dick was hosted on your servers without his consent and you did nothing about it? Does it only matter when it happens to wymyn?

    [–]Maverick0325 30 ポイント31 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    In recent years I've noticed more and more companies releasing statements like this. Typically stating that there is something they will not do, then immediately do that thing.

    This change will have no immediately noticeable impact on more than 99.99% of our users. It is specifically designed to prevent attacks against people, not ideas. It is our challenge to balance free expression of ideas with privacy and safety as we seek to maintain and improve the quality and range of discourse on reddit.

    How can we be certain that moderators won't use this new harassment policy as an excuse to censor ideas they disagree with?

    [–]MARsDoesNothing 45 ポイント46 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    Now you can get banned if you say anything bad about a specific person.

    I wonder if Ellen Pao had anything to do with this? I would imagine she's tired of everyone knowing the truth about her.

    [–]Godspiral 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Would this be a good opportunity to bait someone into saying something that could hurt my feelings? Will you then wield your powerful ban hammer to my satisfaction against whoever I choose? Its obvious to me that my gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and race is oppressed by everyone who thinks otherwise, and those fucking worthless assholes will say things that I find mean.

    How can I better ensure that ALL OF THOSE HATEFUL PEOPLE can be pushed to removing themselves from the internet (if not the planet) by appealing to your mod powers?

    Alternatively, if you feel that I may be improperly seeking post-modern tactics in order to bait people into getting banned to my satisfaction, what procedures exist to prevent me from abusing your powers?

    [–]the_federalist 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Not only do I want terms like "safe" and "harass" to be explicitly defined in terms of objective behavior (not feelings), I would like there to be something in the policy allowing for freedom to express differing ideologies based on different world views; for instance, a person denying the existence of trans identities ought to be able to express that point of view even if someone who identifies as trans feels unsafe when that viewpoint is expressed.

    Furthermore, this should be a public, transparent process so that everyone can see what the person was accused of, the evidence against that person, and the action taken by admins.

    [–]Narfhole 31 ポイント32 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    One person's safety is another's closemindedness.

    [–]walkingtheriver 36 ポイント37 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    This harassment policy will not, definitely and totally and absolutely not, under any circumstances, be used to ban people for talking about Ellen Pao. /s

    [–]XPythagoras 130 ポイント131 ポイント  (96子コメント)

    Don't 'keep everyone safe'. This isn't Facebook, reddit is a free speech platform and I don't think that the omniscient mods like /u/kn0thing should be able to dictate to subreddits how they should handle their community. Censorship should be the subreddit's decision. If we feel that some sub's should be silenced then we are no better than they are.

    [–]notdrunkinflorida 29 ポイント30 ポイント  (9子コメント)

    I think you're jumping the shark here Alex. Who's going to decide what's 'safe'? Mods are the last people I trust to do that.

    The internet is inherently toxic, you can't fix that. I get that you want to get rid of /r/fatpeoplehate and /r/coontown and people have said some over-the-top nasty things about Ellen Pao but I'm afraid what this is also going to do is ban dissenting opinions. This sounds awfully despotic to me.

    edit: just realized his name is Alexis, sorry bout that

    [–]the_leif 20 ポイント21 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Well here's something nobody wants or asked for.

    [–]jexton80 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Well we to can help protect freedom of speech, we can vote with our feet and let this become the safe space in the same way that digg is a safespace.

    [–]relic2279 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    I don't really want to beat a dead attack helicopter, but a sizeable portion of these types of attacks & problems could be, or would be directly (and indirectly) solved by better mod tools... If we could IP ban users from our subreddits who are harassing (a hashed IP so mods wouldn't know the actual IP address for privacy reasons), for example, it would cut down on the amount of toxicity those types of users were bringing to the sub.

    Then there's the whole deterrent aspect; if people know they can't just create a sockpuppet to get around an IP ban, or had to hop on a VPN in order to circumvent it, they may think twice, or may not be as hostile in their commenting. Sure, it's not a perfect solution. I don't think a perfect solution exists. But it's a good solution. The benefits of such a feature far outweighs the negatives.

    In the rare cases where someone accidentally bans an IP that was shared by a university or business (or in the case of wikipedia, a country), it could be and would be escalated to the admins who do what they normally do when that happens. Since it would be a rare occurrence, it shouldn't be much of a consideration to take into account.

    [–]elavers 10 ポイント11 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    This blog post has made me fear for my safety on Reddit. I no longer feel that Reddit is a safe platform to express my ideas because of it.

    [–]dudenamedben 81 ポイント82 ポイント  (55子コメント)

    Reddit has officially jumped the shark. What this is is a mea culpa admitting that their history of letting the community police itself hasn't worked (it has) and beginning a crackdown on expression/speech/communities the admins don't like.

    It started with /r/jailbait... but I wasn't a ephebophile so I didn't speak up. Then they came for /r/thefappening, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't into fuzzy pictures of people I don't know. Then they came for /r/gamergate, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a gamer.

    I'm speaking up now. This is a step in a VERY WRONG direction and will be the end of reddit as we know it if it's allowed to continue

    Instead of promoting free expression of ideas, we are seeing our open policies stifling free expression

    No, you're seeing expression you don't like and have decided to stifle that. If you're going to become a curated community of safe spaces and hugboxes, say that. If you're going to be a space for free expression, then you have to understand that some expression will offend your sensibilities. That's a GOOD THING. How else can one find out that they're wrong if not for challenging their own ideas?

    I really hope that the reddit admins reconsider the path they're going down. Shadowbanning those who question Ellen Pao, banning communities that they don't like... digg fell for less than this. Reddit could very well be next.

    Edit: It's really funny how immediately after this post was linked in SRS, the downvotes and shitty comments started. But they don't brigade. Nope. Good work, guys (Yes I said guys like the goddamn cishet white male shitlord I am.)

    [–]DaedalusMinion 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    their history of letting the community police itself hasn't worked (it has)

    Nice meme.

    The community has never policed itself, the moderators have.

    [–]A_LITTLE_OLD_LADY 13 ポイント14 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    Isn't r/gamergate astroturfed by the people who are against gamergate? thats pretty fucked up

    [–]Br00ce 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Because of this, we are changing our practices to prohibit attacks and harassment of individuals through reddit with the goal of preventing them

    What? The goal of harassers to prevent harassing or is it your goal to stop these harassers preemptively? Or is this just another vague rule you can twist to fit any situation like "brigading"?

    [–]MattyB4x4 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    TL;DR: Reddit will start censoring users comments if they are found offensive.

    Hypocritical clowns.

    [–]Tomes2789 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I think you are really going to be going down a slippery slope here.

    I don't harass anyone so for me this won't effect me at all, but any kind of censorship or taking away of the freedom of speech/the internet is something I instantly worry about.

    There will be an issue of viewpoint neutrality here now, and that's a sad thing to have to accept.

    [–]Darr_Syn 13 ポイント14 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    The continued use of the word "safe" in this blogpost seems. . . ominous.

    See, I'm a mod of a number of BDSM subreddits and the term "safe" is one that's used quite a bit and is talked about all the time. But it's also argued about.

    Let me put it this way.

    What about my subreddits? Is discussing my kinks, hobbies, and passions going to be seen as "threatening" or " fear for their safety or the safety of those around them" by the very action of existing?

    Many people have issues with alternative sexual practices and can see what I, an active sexual sadist, do as unsafe and even threatening.

    So should I be worried about being protected against?

    The issue that this brings up is what is considered "safe". In the BDSM world we tend to understand that there's no such thing as being 100% safe. It's a concept that is mythical, and fictional. Sitting there at your computer reading this there is a chance, no matter how small, that you could be hurt, harmed, or even killed.

    That is true throughout the world. Both online and offline. The world is not safe. The internet is not safe.

    At best you can make things safeR, but never safe.

    But given your recent announcement of transparency I also have to ask, what is the process for being deemed "unsafe"? Are people going to be told they are being unsafe? Is there an appeal process? What are the punishments for being unsafe? Are there varying degrees of unsafeness?

    This seems like an ideal that sounds good in political-speak and on paper but can, and should, be questioned quite a bit before being implemented.

    [–]MrRexels 109 ポイント110 ポイント  (34子コメント)

    Great, fortify the hugbox and echo chamber so no dissenting opinions can ''hurt'' others. Also, people being mean to you on the Internet =/= harassment, they are pixels on a monitor.

    EDIT: Apparently people are bringing up the fact that I comment on TRP as a way to invalidate what I say and label me as wrong even through I didn't make a single redpill statement in the, what, 2, 3 sentences I made? Boy, I wonder why someone that participates on the same kind of community that will get unfairly targeted by this new policy will have something to say about it!.

    PS: Speech is an abstract idea. Attributing intrisic values (''Hate'') to something abstract and subjective is the fastest way to say ''I know shit about ethics and morals''.

    [–]thumbyyy 43 ポイント44 ポイント  (8子コメント)

    Exactly. The admins keep spouting off buzz-words: "harrassment" "bullying" "doxing" but have provided no clear definition of what that really means. Seems more like this is all just about setting policies in place to protect corporations who are tired of getting called out on their bullshit, and want to eliminate that problem and set up road blocks to make it much harder for us to do that.

    In any case, none of this is is about protecting free speech and ensuring open dialogue. Come on.

    [–]IShouldNotSayIt 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    I, for one, can't wait for all the "Where have all the good redditors gone?" posts to pop up after the lifeblood of reddit slowly seeps away.

    [–]velvetbunnyrabbit 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    You might as well include the key catchphrase "for the children" in there while you're at it, jerks.

    [–]X019 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Long time reddit user, (ex)default sub mod, blah blah blah. I've seen lots of stuff go through reddit. I've seen a slow shift as well. I see users with accounts under a day old shadowbanned because they're trying to get their blog out there. I've seen repost spammers on the front page repeatedly, I was here when the Digg exodus happened. I fear for changes in reddit.

    Last week, we announced our internal company values, and we were proud to say: We value privacy, freedom of expression, open discussion, and humanity, and we want to make sure that we uphold these principles for all kinds of people. We didn’t announce them because we’d accomplished them, rather because we are striving for them.

    ...

    Today, we’re making another change that we believe will help make reddit a better place for everyone.

    It’s a major overhaul of the site, the kind of radical change that risks alienating longtime users even as it takes advantage of the powerful social tools that have revolutionized the internet’s flow of information. ... He says the excitement of the unknown and the fast pace of development reminds him of the old days.
    “It makes it feel like a startup again,” he says.

    Now, am I saying that your change here is as significant and the Digg 2.0 disaster? Of course not. But, they were sure of their changes would make Digg a better place for everyone too. Is harassment bad? Of course. But I don't know how I feel about you guys making some arbitrary definition of what deems harassment. If someone is harassing a user on a subreddit, let the mods deal with it. If someone links to some page outside of reddit, let the mods deal with it. If a whole subreddit is offensive to someone, tell them to pull of their big-kid pants and either learn to stay away from it or block it. I guess that I'm saying here is I'm worried that whole subreddits will be shut down in the name of "protecting the 'harassed'." and I feel that would fly in the face if your stated company values.

    [–]KindaConfusedIGuess 33 ポイント34 ポイント  (24子コメント)

    So that means you're gonna shut down subs like /r/ShitRedditSays, /r/SubredditDrama, /r/Conspiratard, /r/GamerGhazi and /r/Fatpeoplehate, right?

    You know, subs that actually revolve around harassment.

    Probably not.

    [–]AndThatIsWhyIDrink 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    and humanity

    I'm willing to bet that this is going to be the downfall of reddit.

    Emergent awesome behaviour that results in vast charitable things occurring is a beautiful thing. I understand reddit's desire to change that.

    But the "and humanity" issue is going to be used to slowly censor and negative behaviours on reddit.

    Unfortunately if you censor a community that wants to behave in a specific way - they're just going to go somewhere else to behave that way, you're NOT going to change humans, you can't, if they want to behave a specific way they'll go elsewhere to do it.

    I think what you're going to see if this isn't VERY carefully understood and looked at is that people will dislike the admins censoring people for what I will happily agree is SHITTY behaviour, and that it will inevitably result in the community entirely going somewhere else.

    I will be happy if I'm proven wrong of course.

    [–]tkms 8 ポイント9 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I appreciate the nobility of the idea behind policies like these, but I cannot ever say I support the policies in practice. This is a couple steps past the first on the road to censorship, extremely vague, deeply disturbing, and certainly not the Reddit I fell in love with.

    I guess I'm with everyone else... I'll be around while my communities are kicking, but this site is going the way of Digg. Time for a new exodus to Voat.