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[–]got_milk4 874 ポイント875 ポイント  (667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 184 ポイント185 ポイント  (57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 325 ポイント326 ポイント  (40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.

[–]occipudding 50 ポイント51 ポイント  (4子コメント)

Their definition of harassment is kinda hazy too. What is considered tormenting or demeaning comments? How do they measure what might constitute as a threat to a "reasonable person?"

[–]FireandLife 29 ポイント30 ポイント  (3子コメント)

Agreed.

Looking at their definition of prohibited harassment:

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.

How exactly would you define "safe platform?" Safe meaning no significant chance of injury or whatever or safe meaning free from ridicule on Reddit? A lot of people worry that this is an excuse to censor subs the admins don't like (/r/fatpeoplehate being the most obvious), but poking fun at an unidentified individual online on a subreddit does not make reddit as a whole "unsafe" in any way, nor should it make the subject fear for their safety.

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

I was literally just thinking that fatpeoplehate, tumblrinaction and the kotakuinaction will be closed down. The rules are so vague that theyre probably doomed

[–]Sterling-Archer 27 ポイント28 ポイント  (1子コメント)

And SRS will continue to dox and brigade freely

[–]davidd00 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

such is life on reddit

[–]Furyhunter 174 ポイント175 ポイント  (26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

[–]plusminustwo 21 ポイント22 ポイント  (2子コメント)

I agree it should be case by case but it should also involve a defined set of rules and a defined case investigation. If this happens and someone emails us, we will handle it this way. You can apply for a second person's opinion in the matter this way. If I may be so bold too - you can plea to regain status of a shadowbanned account after this time frame.

This type of basic transparency is basically the thing people complain about most around here. They are basically saying, "we're expanding the types of things we'll ban you for, but we're not going to be more transparent about it and what we're looking for is vague".

[–]embretr 83 ポイント84 ポイント  (5子コメント)

Bad news for subreddits dedicated to talking down reddit CEOs, then.

[–]thehollowman84 92 ポイント93 ポイント  (2子コメント)

Oh, an abstract poorly defined rule? I bet this won't be selectively and subjectively enforced to push forward an agenda!

[–]lamaksha77 442 ポイント443 ポイント  (247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 192 ポイント193 ポイント  (79子コメント)

Well, time to move to Voat?

[–]lamaksha77 250 ポイント251 ポイント  (51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.

[–]pie-oh 103 ポイント104 ポイント  (1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?

[–]SuperConductiveRabbi 251 ポイント252 ポイント  (264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?

[–]rwbj 564 ポイント565 ポイント  (60子コメント)

Hi /u/kn0thing /u/audobot

I believe you are intentionally presenting these data in a misleading fashion. I've already posted this on voat, but I'd certainly like to hear what you have to say about it rather than me just calling shenanigans without giving you a chance to clarify or show that my statements are themselves misleading or false.


First, here are the sources:

  • 0 The blog post which references the survey.

  • 1 Admin stating that "about 21 million saw the invite [to take the survey.]"

  • 2 The survey brief mentioning "you gave us 16,817 responses."

  • 3 The survey admin clarifying he truly has no understanding of selection bias. When somebody else brought this up he stated, "We were pretty careful about showing the survey invite in a randomized way. This is pretty standard survey methodology - taking a randomized, representative subset."

  • 4 The "scrubbed" survey data in CSV for anybody that'd like to look at it.

Citing #1 and #2, 99.92% of people chose to not participate in this survey. For anybody here that might not be familiar with selection bias, it's the reason internet sourced anonymous surveys are simply (and literally) not used when seeking actionable data. People who opt-in to surveys without other sorts of incentivization (which itself can also introduce bias depending on which people are attracted to said incentives) disproportionately represent those who are driven to do so for reasons that are generally not representative of the userbase as a whole. For instance upset or unusually enthusiastic users are going to be more likely than not to take surveys on the quality of a site. Randomizing who sees the survey does absolutely nothing to deal with this when only a biased sample opts in to taking it.


Now for the more interesting stuff.

The above all shows a lack of technical competence, but it's nothing particularly surprising and I think we can safely invoke Hanlon's Razor. However, now we're about to enter into the realm of mental gymnastics used by people trying to validate something that is clearly unpopular.

  • "50% of people who wouldn’t recommend reddit cited hateful or offensive content and community as the reason why."
  • "3.25% of respondents cited hateful or offensive content as a reason they would not recommend Reddit."

The first is Reddit's phrasing, the second is the in context figure from the data itself. 93.5% of respondents actually would recommend Reddit. They take the view of a minuscule minority (which works out to 543 users in this case) and rephrase to make it seem vastly larger than it is. But this gets much more interesting very fast.

The words "hate" and "offensive" (or any variations of such) don't even show up on the survey.

The only way people could mention this would be in the free form response category. Unfortunately those responses have all been deleted from the public data, citing privacy concerns so it's absolutely impossible to verify or determine exactly how they're coming up with this figure. We do know that, citing their own report, there were only 111 responses to why people were extremely dissatisfied. So we're left to assume that the vast majority of these responses from people who would not recommend the site and find the content "hateful or offensive" actually aren't extremely dissatisfied with the site........

I'll sum up with quoting the Reddit admins' interpretation of these data that was shared on the blog post

TL;DR: We are unhappy with harassing behavior on reddit; we have survey data that show our users are, too. So we’ve improved our practices to better curb harassment of individuals on reddit.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

[–]muhThrowaway2 128 ポイント129 ポイント  (4子コメント)

This needs more attention.

Reddit's "PR firm" is selectively answering questions in this thread like politicians do.

[–]AnonymousInAtl 23 ポイント24 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Let's try to keep the discussion about Rampart, folks.

[–]runnerrun2 49 ポイント50 ポイント  (1子コメント)

New management please.

[–]srtor 33 ポイント34 ポイント  (0子コメント)

Ellen Pao must go.

[–]ApexRedditr 27 ポイント28 ポイント  (2子コメント)

I think I'm about ready to pack up and leave this place. Been through the great Digg migration. Nearly time for the great Reddit migration. Voat has a long way to go and is in desperate need of a good android client but it has potential.

Anyone want to work on a voat app? I can handle UI design, you handle code (aka all the actual hard stuff haha)

[–]rag3train 42 ポイント43 ポイント  (3子コメント)

I want to gold this but I don't want to give reddit any more money

[–]johnyann 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (0子コメント)

This needs to go to the top.

Would give you gold, but honestly, it really isn't that great.

[–]intellos 203 ポイント204 ポイント  (18子コメント)

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

[–]Booty_Bumping 131 ポイント132 ポイント  (1子コメント)

No, harassment was allowed, and isn't listed yet in the rules list.

Reddiquette, on the other hand, doesn't allow harassment. However, reddiquette is just an informal wiki article intended to drive moderators to set reasonable rules.

[–]mega_trex 41 ポイント42 ポイント  (0子コメント)

It's being handled by the admins now instead of mods I guess.

[–]overallprettyaverage 2798 ポイント2799 ポイント  (1212子コメント)

Still waiting on some word on the state of shadow banning

[–]TheCid 658 ポイント659 ポイント  (34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.

[–]peteyboy100 95 ポイント96 ポイント  (5子コメント)

But even the spamming rules are messed up. People that want to share things that they created get punished even though it is original content and not necessarily spamming. They just want to share it with people they think would enjoy it. The 10 - 1 ratio seems arbitrary and doesn't stop a true spammer (that would use multiple accounts and so forth). It just hurts individual content creators.

[–]nixonrichard 155 ポイント156 ポイント  (15子コメント)

And since it doesn't work on spammers (because they're generally good at what they do), there should be no shadowbans . . . ever.

[–]FireReadyAim 15 ポイント16 ポイント  (0子コメント)

shadowbans only work if people don't know they exist.

Using them on things that aren't bots basically completely invalidated the entire concept.

[–]rtechie1 104 ポイント105 ポイント  (7子コメント)

The whole concept of bans for harassing (or spamming} makes no sense at all. People use throwaways for harassment.

Basically, shadowbans assume the poster is just a "regular poster" and won't be aware. Actual bad actors, like spammers and harassers, will check for this.

[–]ImAtWorkBeNice 1115 ポイント1116 ポイント  (432子コメント)

[–]Oxxide 674 ポイント675 ポイント  (124子コメント)

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

[–]OswaldWasAFag 491 ポイント492 ポイント  (63子コメント)

Glad you can appreciate just how ridiculous that rule is.

[–]NicholasCajun 281 ポイント282 ポイント  (59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 241 ポイント242 ポイント  (7子コメント)

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

[–]nixonrichard 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (3子コメント)

IF YOUR IP IS FROM A LOCATION NORTH OF THE MASON-DIXON LINE!

Everyone always forgets about that.

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

Unless the IP you're using adds up to a prime number that corresponds with any of the fall harvest celebrations in the old Celtic calendar.

[–]nujabesrip 169 ポイント170 ポイント  (39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 89 ポイント90 ポイント  (5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 51 ポイント52 ポイント  (17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.

[–]omenofdread 6 ポイント7 ポイント  (0子コメント)

(astroturfing, vote obfuscation, shadowbaning, powerusers/mods, the AMA nonsense, "brigades", harrassment-by-any-other-term, native advertisements, and the big one, "the shill debate")

Rule #5 violations are only allowed if money is involved.

[–]Caterpiller101 24 ポイント25 ポイント  (2子コメント)

shhhhh I don't want anyone killed. Here

Danger: it's wrong. I..... Tested it. I might be killed

I upvoted a man in Reno just to watch him die. Now, every time I see a vote.... I lay my head down and cry.

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    [–]meeper88 108 ポイント109 ポイント  (42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.

    [–]go1dfish 51 ポイント52 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    /u/kn0thing could we get some transparency into what was removed here:

    http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/35ym8t/promote_ideas_protect_people/cr967kb

    And why the user was shadowbanned?

    I think the user was /u/TypicalTrex or /u/emsis but I'm not sure.

    As you know the shadowbanning process removes most all data, and the comment seems to have been removed separately after the removal since /u/meeper88 was able to see it while the user was banned.

    [–]Mobre 38 ポイント39 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Last time I checked, Pao's husband was a public figure and thus is within the realm of public discussion... regardless, mentioning his name or activities associated with him are classified under 'freedom of speech' and also one of Reddits tenets albiet it's called freedom of expression.

    [–]notdrunkinflorida 30 ポイント31 ポイント  (36子コメント)

    PM me what he said plz I'm dying to know

    edit: Aha, okay this is starting to make more sense. Attention everyone be very careful about how you speak about certain people, this blog post was just a way of informing us that they ain't gonna put up with it any more.

    [–]go1dfish 89 ポイント90 ポイント  (15子コメント)

    I investigated this a bit: http://www.reddit.com/r/undelete/comments/35zzc3/another_user_is_allegedly_shadowbanned_and/cr9fa64

    He said this:

    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

    [–]Luc-Pronounced_Luke 63 ポイント64 ポイント  (10子コメント)

    I've never been shadowbanned before. Should be a new experience.

    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

    [–]tenmp 28 ポイント29 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    NEW COPY PASTA

    I've never been shadowbanned before. Should be a new experience.

    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

    [–]ForestGrumppotato 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (1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

    Was you talking about this.. 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

    [–]WizardHatchet 41 ポイント42 ポイント  (4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

    Probably also affirmative actioned, just to throw it in there. Head of the team in charge of Google+ was a poster girl, put in charge of engineers much smarter than she was. Had her name plastered everywhere. Look how badly that went.

    [–]incaseanyonecared 11 ポイント12 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    That exact paragraph is what gets people shadowboxed.

    [–]piitza 52 ポイント53 ポイント  (9子コメント)

    Attention everyone be very careful about how you speak about certain people, this blog post was just a way of informing us that they ain't gonna put up with it any more.

    So you can't have an opinion on people? I'm confused as to what you can/can't say about people.

    [–]notwhereyouare 388 ポイント389 ポイント  (104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 169 ポイント170 ポイント  (50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 164 ポイント165 ポイント  (31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] 1234 ポイント1235 ポイント  (386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 502 ポイント503 ポイント  (182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] 637 ポイント638 ポイント  (178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 275 ポイント276 ポイント  (173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] 458 ポイント459 ポイント  (171子コメント)

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

    [–]hestonkent 314 ポイント315 ポイント  (102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.

    [–]Mid22 235 ポイント236 ポイント  (49子コメント)

    More user-friendly is always nice to have. This is what I had to deal with when I was shadowbanned.

    [–]RamonaLittle 112 ポイント113 ポイント  (18子コメント)

    I'm fairly certain whoever showed you this page fully intended to incite a vote brigate.

    So you did normal reddit stuff, and got banned for someone else's intent to brigade. WTF? "Every Man Is Responsible For His Own Soul," but we're all responsible for everyone else's brigading attempts?

    [–]tkms 39 ポイント40 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    I hope /u/kn0thing sees this, because WTF really! I hope this was just a bad day and not a regular occurrence. This is ridiculous.

    [–]Lereas 54 ポイント55 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    I dont get this. If someone posts a link to somewhere because it is of interest to that group, of course they will go and participate.

    Just make it so you have to have been a member of a subreddit for at least 48 hours before commenting or voting and you solve most of those problems.

    [–]vintermann 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Just make it so you have to have been a member of a subreddit for at least 48 hours before commenting or voting and you solve most of those problems.

    See, that would be a smart solution to the problem of outside groups overwhelming small subreddits. But by reducing the problem, it would give the admins less excuse to use their personal discretion. They won't give up that.

    [–]Viking83 60 ポイント61 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    Who was the admin? And why on Earth don't they hand out mass shadowbans to the crowd from /r/shitredditsays? There are tons and tons of evidence of outside-of-reddit activity going on to mess with Reddit's systems (like this user was accused of).

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

    What site rules? https://www.reddit.com/rules/ I don't see anything in those rules that constitutes any rules consistent with the reasoning for your banning.

    [–]two_xjs 111 ポイント112 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    wow an actual response to a shadowban question

    [–]TotesMessenger 150 ポイント151 ポイント  (40子コメント)

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    [–]GTS250 84 ポイント85 ポイント  (26子コメント)

    /r/oppression? That's a thing?

    [–]robotortoise 100 ポイント101 ポイント  (16子コメント)

    I think it's ironic.

    Edit: it is....both?

    [–]Vmoney1337 12 ポイント13 ポイント  (11子コメント)

    Trust me, it's definitely ironic. They just do a great job at it.

    [–]robotortoise 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (10子コメント)

    The sidebar says it's both.

    So, I guess it's Poe's Law, but also not?

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

    Admin /u/kn0thing admits that for the last 10 years, they've been treating users like potential spammers and been punishing them with a nasty shadowban.

    Oh good lord

    [–]Kyoraki 26 ポイント27 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    If you know it's a broken feature, then why is it still being used against users?

    In the last blog post you made, someone was banned for asking why there is a dodgy Wall Street investor, currently under investigation for a 100mil+ pension fraud , in charge of this site. That's a legitimate question about the direction this site is headed, and you're knowingly banning him using a broken feature meant for marketing spam? What is going on here?

    [–]leefna 54 ポイント55 ポイント  (29子コメント)

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

    [–]AndroidL 121 ポイント122 ポイント  (6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.

    [–]phyzome 35 ポイント36 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    organic content

    You've been spending too much time with marketing folks. :-P

    [–]70616c616b6b6164616e 457 ポイント458 ポイント  (111子コメント)

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

    [–]5days[A] 306 ポイント307 ポイント  (45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 60 ポイント61 ポイント  (21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."

    [–]ImAtWorkBeNice 254 ポイント255 ポイント  (56子コメント)

    [–]Kalium 412 ポイント413 ポイント  (46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?

    [–]Prescription_pants 93 ポイント94 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    by cleaning up the site and cashing out with an IPO before all the users have left.

    [–]elavers 323 ポイント324 ポイント  (11子コメント)

    With more blog posts! /s

    [–]S4f3f0rw0rk 149 ポイント150 ポイント  (9子コメント)

    Careful you don't want to get banned for harassment.

    This is your final warning. :)

    [–]the_ref_is_a_bum 33 ポイント34 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    please stop harassing /u/elavers with threats to their account, it makes me feel unsafe in this safe immaculate garden that is reddit. this is your first warning.

    [–]joey1405 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    please stop harassing /u/S4f3f0rw0rk with threats to their account, it makes me feel unsafe in this safe immaculate garden that is reddit. this is your first warning.

    [–]yutt0 217 ポイント218 ポイント  (6子コメント)

    I'm actually on-site at Reddit HQ and was able to photograph /u/kn0thing and /u/5days working on a solution to address the loss of community trust in Reddit administration and staff:

    http://i.imgur.com/lqv2Yim.jpg

    [–]Werner__Herzog 26 ポイント27 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    It's been ten years, it was bound to happen. They had a good run.

    [–]fre3k 35 ポイント36 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    I been here damn near 10 years now. It's been a never-ending spiral of older users having less and less faith in what the company reddit is doing to the platform reddit. The first comment of all time talks about how comments are detracting from what reddit was before.

    See https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/17913/reddit_now_supports_comments/?sort=old

    Literally from the first moment users were able to provide feedback to the company it was negative. Perhaps the criticism was unwarranted at that particular moment, but the dissenting voices have only gotten stronger and more numerous.

    Personally, I was with the company until SRS really got into it's SJW mode and wasn't treated the same as anyone else. I actually enjoyed SRS right at the beginning before it became just a crazy person/SJW cesspool with special brigading privileges.

    [–]vehementsquirrel 605 ポイント606 ポイント  (245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 245 ポイント246 ポイント  (16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.

    [–]psdtwk 18 ポイント19 ポイント  (3子コメント)

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

    AutoModerator does this

    Mods need tools to hide posts and threads by default.

    Mods can already do this with their subreddit settings

    Further; Mods need the ability to document why these actions were taken

    Mods can already do this by leaving a note with their removal. Toolbox automates this.

    user may need to post something first

    AutoModerator can do this


    Lots of good ideas.

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

    Toolbox is nice but it aint reddit. And toolbox has limitations. Like the need for wiki access etc...

    [–]Levy_Wilson 89 ポイント90 ポイント  (5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 358 ポイント359 ポイント  (219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 204 ポイント205 ポイント  (141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...

    [–]FauxBoDo 23 ポイント24 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Next blog post - "Announcing our Partnership With Hooli: Making the World a Better Place"

    [–]cj_would_lovethis 1081 ポイント1082 ポイント  (154子コメント)

    [–]Okichah 173 ポイント174 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    Werent you paying attention? Its more censorship.

    If you censor the complaints about censorship you achieve 100% compliance.

    [–]colordrops 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    Notice how all the comments for the parent comment are hidden by default? What are reddit's rules for comment folding? Or is it manually adjusted by admins/mods? Seems pretty convenient that this particular question's responses are not displayed.

    [–]RaiderInRed505 162 ポイント163 ポイント  (6子コメント)

    Buzzwords. Corporate buzzwords everywhere.

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

    You're killing the site. You think you're too big to suffer from the same fate Digg did, but you're not.

    For a while now you've been changing the way the site operates that go against the fundamentals on which this sites majority users rely on to satiate the few and the media.

    I think it's incredibly clear that your users disagree with the direction you're taking and if you continue, you are guaranteed, just like Digg, to lose a significant portion of your user base. You can't sell ad space or reddit gold if there's no one around to see it.

    [–]cjcrashoveride 59 ポイント60 ポイント  (10子コメント)

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

    [–]XniklasX 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (9子コメント)

    Or have 2 buttons. 1 for mods 1 for admins. The choices now do nothing for a mod. Only applicable one for like 99.99% of reports is other.

    [–]danheskett 334 ポイント335 ポイント  (12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 105 ポイント106 ポイント  (1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.

    [–]K_Lobstah 72 ポイント73 ポイント  (18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.

    [–]kvachon 378 ポイント379 ポイント  (61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 194 ポイント195 ポイント  (8子コメント)

    You won't get a straight answer on this.

    [–]Marble_Shell 29 ポイント30 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Of course not, /u/kn0thing or any other admin will only reply to vague questions, nothing serious or real.

    [–]Darr_Syn 108 ポイント109 ポイント  (2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.

    [–]starworks5 29 ポイント30 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I have been down this little rabbit hole.

    it goes "safe from what" , "i dont have to talk about it".

    [–]Mcsquizzy 161 ポイント162 ポイント  (9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

    [–]stealthboy 167 ポイント168 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    I think the new CEO has been "making decisions".

    [–]stevesy17 14 ポイント15 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I reminds me so hard of gavin belson from silicon valley

    "Making the world, a better place"

    That shit-eating pause really gives me the heeby jeebs

    [–]ecafyelims 171 ポイント172 ポイント  (12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.

    [–]Ios7 31 ポイント32 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I think this new policy was made before the so called "survey".

    [–]chugz 273 ポイント274 ポイント  (11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.

    [–]itty53 268 ポイント269 ポイント  (82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'.

    [–]MillenniumFalc0n 99 ポイント100 ポイント  (23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.

    [–]wantingsilence 132 ポイント133 ポイント  (42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?

    [–]Dlgredael 71 ポイント72 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    This is having the exact opposite effect on me. I don't want to use reddit because I'm afraid that by getting in a disagreement with someone, they're going to report me and you're going to ban me. I have spent time debating people, which can be confrontational, and even though I don't take it to an extreme level I still don't feel okay with even participating in a debate anymore when your rules are so poorly defined. If you're going to come up with a blanket rule like this that affects everything, you could at least be clear enough that people can actually tell what it takes to break it.

    [–]velvetbunnyrabbit 61 ポイント62 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.

    [–]tacticalbaconX 110 ポイント111 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.

    [–]X019 35 ポイント36 ポイント  (2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.

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

    Promote censorship, protect profits

    There, I fixed your little motto for today's doublespeak PR session.

    [–]risingstars 124 ポイント125 ポイント  (1子コメント)

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

    [–]dummystupid 86 ポイント87 ポイント  (4子コメント)

    There's a lot of admin blog posts lately.

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

    [–]Davethe3rd 118 ポイント119 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    Welcome to Digg v5.0

    [–]GG_Meow 23 ポイント24 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Digg your own grave.

    [–]Byarlant 20 ポイント21 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    I just can imagine Ellen Pao standing behind them, threatening with a lawsuit if they don't do as she says.

    [–]ttifiblog 85 ポイント86 ポイント  (5子コメント)

    So are you finally going to stop SRS from brigading and harassing?

    [–]FalconGames109 40 ポイント41 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    We value privacy, freedom of expression, open discussion

    No, you don't. Freedom of expression and open discussion mean no censorship, at all. Whenever you say something similar to "I support freedom of speech, but..." you are basically admitting that you don't -- it's exactly the same as "I'm not racist, but...". You might support open discussion of some topics, but that doesn't mean anything about true freedom. If a government chooses to censor only discussion of its politics (I will mention this later) and allows open discussion of everything else, that doesn't mean you have freedom of speech. In fact, it means exactly the opposite.

    We’ve always encouraged freedom of expression by having a mostly hands-off approach

    Keyword being "mostly". Except you don't actually support it half the time. What about all those people who were shadowbanned for all that gamergate non-sense (for clarification, I don't support this gamergate movement but I also don't support the people against it; I am not in any way affiliated in its discussion). Why? Because the reddit admins disagree with them. Which is, let me remind you, how oppressive governments deal with discussion they don't like. Better yet, those same admins have also shadowbanned people contributing to the discussion of whether these bans should be allowed, which is exactly what countries like the DPRK do to deal with citizens who disagree with their ideology: they censor their opinions.

    Instead of promoting free expression of ideas, we are seeing our open policies stifling free expression; people avoid participating for fear of their personal and family safety. Because of this, we are changing our practices to prohibit attacks and harassment of individuals through reddit with the goal of preventing them.

    This isn't reddit's place to deal with these issues. In the real world, if someone says something offensive you have to learn to deal with it. One way to do this is to remove yourself from the situation or ignore them. Blocking a user (requires R.E.S.) who offends you is enough. If you don't feel comfortable putting your opinion out there for the general public, post it on a private subreddit. Censorship will not fix this. It will do the exact opposite. It will be abused so much that it will prevent any meaningful conversation from occurring. You may have your doubts, but we've seen this in the real world before. Countries with strict "anti-defamation" laws (such as Italy) regularly abuse their power and use it to censor what they don't agree with. This is exactly why we need open discussion, which reddit originally served to be a place for. But then the admins changed their minds and ruined it all with changes like this.

    To the admins of the site: Say what you will about how this does not affect the spread of ideas, it still won't change the fact that you are wrong. These changes are undermining the original principles that reddit was founded on. Please remember that what somebody posts will always be an idea, and censoring their thoughts about another person is only censoring "thoughtcrime"; if someone thinks, for example, that all homosexual people need to burn in hell, that doesn't mean that they are going to do it. It is what their religion tells them, and censoring what they say isn't going to change that (even if they tell someone that they deserve to go to hell for their "sins"). For the record, I'm atheist and I don't believe any of that crap, but that doesn't change the fact that you would be taking away their freedom to openly speak their opinion. And doing so will just turn around this issue -- people will only be more scared to say their opinion once opinions that the admins are against get censored.

    As a final note: Honestly, this comment will probably be deleted or I'll probably be shadowbanned based on how the admins have recently reacted to people calling them out on their bullshit. Good for you if you do it, whatever. I don't honestly care. Just remember that by doing so you are putting an end to open discussion on the website. I'll be happy to leave if changes like these continue. voat actually cares about openness. Take a look at their website and learn how to operate an internet community, because censorship is definitely not the answer.

    [–]2015goodyear 71 ポイント72 ポイント  (46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?

    [–]AgrippaDaYounger 32 ポイント33 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    Posts like these make me question whether the reddit administration really understand what reddit is. Reddit is a way to categorize content by subject, and then adjust visibility by vote, thats it. You are not running a social movement, the same abhorrent content found around the net works within this framework because it can be compartmentalized, allowing disparate subjects to exist within the same ecosystem. This has allowed gore and hardcore porn to exist on the same platform as the presidential AMA. I don't understand why you need to change (censor) anything except to allow reddit inc to try to sell a more cleaned up (fake) version of the internet to gain more users, when in the process of beginning down the path of censorship you threaten your very place within the market because reddit at its core is a very simple concept (easy to replicate; see voat shills) executed by users who highly value unrestricted speech and are critical to reddits success.

    Is it really worth alienating your existing loyal base to draw in new users who aren't already interested in the existing model (product)?

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

    I welcome the hateful and offensive comment. It is why I come to reddit. No, seriously. Everywhere else, you get kicked out if you say something vile. I enjoyed this place because I need to hear the worst of the worst for perspective.

    I am all for banning threats. But otherwise, back off. If reddit gets sanitized I will no longer come here. "Good riddance", you might say, but it is your loss. A forum without the full scope of human opinion is worthless.

    [–]backtowriting 77 ポイント78 ポイント  (10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?

    [–]AustNerevar 205 ポイント206 ポイント  (7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 21 ポイント22 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 81 ポイント82 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    Don't turn Reddit into Tumblr.

    That's exactly what this is.

    [–]NeonMan 104 ポイント105 ポイント  (1子コメント)

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

    Right?

    [–]I_smell_awesome 141 ポイント142 ポイント  (15子コメント)

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

    [–]heyitsfred 74 ポイント75 ポイント  (8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.

    [–]rag3train 7 ポイント8 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Keep moving towards that sjw hug box you so desperately want pao.

    [–]DeadGamerWalking 281 ポイント282 ポイント  (17子コメント)

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

    [–]J-Unleashed 98 ポイント99 ポイント  (8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.

    [–]moush 34 ポイント35 ポイント  (2子コメント)

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

    [–]jexton80 33 ポイント34 ポイント  (6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.

    [–]blarg15 5 ポイント6 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Cut to Kevin Rose, quietly laughing to himself in an oversized chair.

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

    Good intentions and vague words pave the way to disaster.

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

    Fuck you, Reddit admins.

    [–]1wf 757 ポイント758 ポイント  (264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. . .

    [–]Ignitionmix 62 ポイント63 ポイント  (3子コメント)

    Here is a list of potentially worthy alternatives I compiled earlier (courtesy of /r/redditalternatives):

    Snapzu - Very visual, lots of great articles and videos. XP and leveling adds fun and sense of progress.

    Empeopled - Gives you more influence based on the amount of up-votes you've received. Use influence to steer future of the site.

    The Needs - Seen this on twitter a lot, content seems a bit off (automated content maybe?).

    Hubski - Old school, had similar attention to voat a few years ago. Decent discussion but few members.

    Spreadit - Dark theme, doesnt seem all that different from reddit. Even the name is similar.

    Hacker News - Lots of business and programming talk but can also find some good misc discussion.

    Linkibl - No comment, seen it posted at /r/redditalternatives. Looks like pinterest for links.

    Voat - Almost direct clone that cropped up just recently.

    Lobsters - Techy invite only link sharing. Similar in look to hacker news.

    [–]neohephaestus 259 ポイント260 ポイント  (23子コメント)

    So you're finally getting rid of ShitRedditSays?

    [–]graffiti81 186 ポイント187 ポイント  (16子コメント)

    I give it about a 0% chance. Reddit is run by a SRS sympathizer.

    [–]TheCyberGlitch 53 ポイント54 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Is that the "reasonable person" who gets to subjectively define harassment?

    [–]LeafRunner 50 ポイント51 ポイント  (1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

    [–]the_leif 67 ポイント68 ポイント  (2子コメント)

    Well here's something nobody wants or asked for.

    [–]i_lost_my_password 107 ポイント108 ポイント  (7子コメント)

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

    [–]CttCJim 47 ポイント48 ポイント  (4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.

    [–]too_long_didnt_read 44 ポイント45 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    It's not harassment if SJW's do it, it is if anyone else does it. See, transparent!

    [–]vexinom 46 ポイント47 ポイント  (25子コメント)

    There are SRS mods that have harassed people talking about committing suicide still on the site. What are you going to do about them?

    [–]Tank_Kassadin 17 ポイント18 ポイント  (0子コメント)

    Thanks Mom. I really wanted more people telling me what I can and can't talk about.

    [–]crash_matrix 36 ポイント37 ポイント  (15子コメント)

    Disclaimer: #GamerGate content.

    I'm a little curious as to the extend of reach. This is pretty vague: "Systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone"

    I mean, /r/GamerGhazi seems to be a systematic, coordinated attack on the character of a specific subset of people based entirely on a political affiliation. Dissent and correction isn't allowed by the rules of the subreddit. Technically, that would fall within the above criteria.

    I'm not calling for its removal - but this blog post raises interesting questions. And an interesting dilemma. It's one thing to say "we're taking a stance on threats and doxxing" - but the stated criteria seem to be wildly subjective. Ghazi considers me responding to their mod comments [which are directed at me] as harassment. On twitter and Tumblr, just a few dissenting responses are considered harassment. Asking for proof of an assertion is considered harassment by some (so-called "sealioning").

    I'd love to see the admins' thoughts on these issues.

    [–]DamnTheseLurkers 27 ポイント28 ポイント  (3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.

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

    Instead of promoting free expression of ideas, we are seeing our open policies stifling free expression; people avoid participating for fear of their personal and family safety

    Does this mean you're finally shutting SRS down?

    [–]MattyB4x4 70 ポイント71 ポイント  (3子コメント)

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

    Hypocritical clowns.

    [–]LURKER_GALORE 16 ポイント17 ポイント  (1子コメント)

    It's impossible to make sense of this new policy without defining "safe." What kind of safety are you concerned about? Is it physical safety? I.e., the mods will only intervene if a reasonable person would conclude that, due to reddit's platform and due to systematic and continued actions, such reasonable person's physical safety would be threatened?

    If it's not physical safety, what are you referring to? Emotional safety? Can reddit please elaborate.

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

    why don't you do yourselves a favor and give us a list of all offensive things that are NOT "harassment".

    because there seems to be a lot of touchy imbeciles who think that a difference in opinion qualifies.

    and reddit itself rolls out the censorship hammer without any transparency on exactly what will trigger that and that capriciousness ends up extending to the mods of subreddits.

    let's have some fucking standards of behavior for the people in power.

    you guys need to do a lot more of self exposure before this reads as anything other than a self serving purging.