Removing harassing subreddits

SilvanestitheErudite · 28分前

Is there going to be transparency as to how subreddits are determined to be harrasing?

CrackheadControl · 30分前

Why is /r/fatpeoplehate banned, but /r/coontown get to exist? That's bullshit.

tethercat · 31分前

Where can we find the five banned subreddits? Can you just tell us here what they are, and link to where the updated page will be?

edit

In case it gets buried, here is the other four subreddits in addition to r/ fatpeoplehate. I won't direct link to them, nor name them. This link contains their identities. Thank you, mods, for your immediate transparency.

brent0935 · 11分前

Hey admins, go suck a dick then eat a Twinkie.

nsto · 31分前

Did /r/fatpeoplehate actually harass people outside of the subreddit?

youareinthematrix · 23分前

I predict this isn't going to go down well.

digitalpizza · 23分前

How us /r/fatpeoplehate any different from /r/cringe or /r/CringeAnarchy/? They ridicule people just as much. Should ban those too if you're gonna ban fatpeoplehate

RTE2FM · 9分前

www.voat.co

turroflux · 25分前

So /r/BeatingCripples - /r/sexyabortions - /r/StruggleFucking continue to exist but a sub that mocks fat people is crossing the line?

Right.

CaptainReginald · 10分前

TIL vicious racism is fine, but hurting fat people's fee fees is banable.

Classy, Reddit.

na85 · 26分前

Our goal is to enable as many people as possible to have authentic conversations and share ideas and content on an open platform.

Look, I've never posted in r/fatpeoplehate and never visited it, but can we drop the charade and everyone just come out and admit that all this is about making reddit's user base more palatable for advertisers?

Coca-cola doesn't want to be associated with r/jailbait or whatever, I get that. Reddit needs to monetize because it's not profitable, I get that too.

But let's stop pretending this is about ivory-tower ideals of community and free speech. Reddit has never been about free speech, and the isolated-island format with moderators having dictatorial control over their potentially-walled gardens hampers an honest exchange of ideas in favour of increased groupthink and radicalized discourse. Free speech and "authentic conversations" (whatever the fuck that means) isn't out there waiting in the wings for r/fatpeoplehate to be banned. Advertisers are. They don't want their ads accidentally popping up on r/ihatejews or something and then a media shitstorm erupting, so the admins need to sanitize.

Ellen Pao is a lawyer and an MBA: you don't bring someone like that on board to create an ideal utopia. You call in the MBA's when you need to turn something that was idealistic into a profit stream. "Authentic conversations" is the most business-school phrase I've heard in quite some time. How about the admins treat us like adults instead of like idiots?

edit: SPELING LOL

Gloman42 · 26分前

but subreddits with pictures of cute dead girls is ok...

HawkeyeTransfer · 21分前

$10 says a new fatpeoplehate subreddit will be up and running within 24 hours.

dfsac85 · 28分前

I am glad you guys didn't delete /r/fuckolly . Because seriously, fuck that kid.

pm_me_things_you_lov · 27分前

List of subreddits on the chopping block:

What about /r/coontown though? It's just straight up racism on /new all day long.

Muppet1616 · 31分前

What are the other 4 banned subreddits?

really_cool_name · 27分前

Today we are removing five subreddits that break our reddit rules based on their harassment of individuals.

Doesn't that mean you have to ban r/shitredditsays ?

SplodeyDope · 31分前

How about /r/shitredditsays ?

CommonWhiteGirl666 · 18分前

What about that one subreddit with pictures of dead fetuses? Or the one where people go to masturbate to dead women?

Swissguru · 10分前

Pathetic.

nixonrichard · 22分前

Does Mitt Romney count as an individual? Because if you're going to go down this dark path, you have a LOT of subreddits to ban.

Mitt Romney got harassed worse than anyone I've ever seen on Reddit, far worse than any fat person being harassed by /r/fatpeoplehate (which they didn't actually do).

What you're doing is setting a precedent which cannot possibly be enforced except by the caprice of Admins . . . and I think that's EXACTLY what you want.

If the subreddit was "/r/WBC_Hate" there's no way you would have banned it. You're making a choice that you care more about fat people as a group than members of the WBC (or any other group that is widely hated) and by Administrators making a personal choice as to what is supported and what is not, you're doing far more risk to Reddit than you could possibly remove by banning /r/fatpeoplehate.

I hope you realize what you're doing. I don't think you do.

likferd · 15分前

RIP Reddit. The beginning of the end.

chocoboat · 14分前

It's OK to shame people and show the negative effects of drug addiction, alcohol addiction, gambling addiction, gaming addiction, painkiller addiction...

But food addiction? That's somehow worse than making fun of people's skin color and propagating racist stereotypes!

/r/coontown gets to stay, but you can't be negative about people ruining their health and harming others (especially their poor children)!

ttifiblog · 10分前

It was just a matter of time, wasn't it? I can't say I liked any of the 5 banned subs, but seems like freedom of expression shouldn't be banned.

What's next? /r/news gets banned for pointing out how the CEO is blackmailing her old company to pay for her husband's ponzi scheme debts?

Thezanthex · 19分前

It's not that I support any of the banned subreddits, but banning them with that justification isn't cool, especially since outwardly they didn't appear to be doxxing anyone.

Censorship, man. I thought there'd be more time before it really hit reddit.

UlfricRainCoat · 31分前

Is there a full list of those banned? Just curious.

DisgustingFatPeople · 15分前

you know what is fucking pathetic about this.

if you had a smokerhate subreddit, no one would care. It's ok to hate smokers.

But are there smoker acceptance people trying to say "health at every cigarette"? NO!

There is no difference between obesity and smoking. Both are horrible for you. Yet only one is ok to "shame"?

Pathetic.

xilog · 11分前

Oh DO fuck off, you raging SJW fuckwads.

Brogelicious · 11分前

Wtf was wrong with /r/fatpeoplehate? It wasnt harassing anyone. It's just an anti heas sub reddit

whendoesOpTicplay · 10分前

RIP /r/fatpeoplehate. Fuck you admins.

jwshyy · 10分前

By the same vein, /r/ShitRedditSays should be banned too

PM_YOUR_YOUTUBE_VIDs · 23分前

Nice to see admin turning Reddit into tumblr. I don't like those subreddits but I don't want to remove them. This won't stop shit and will make it worse.

EspritFort · 27分前

As someone who is usually completely oblivious about the things happening around him, could you explain to me what r/fatpeoplehate was all about? Was is just pictures of obese people with users making fun of them or something?

frankenmine · 17分前

/r/ShitRedditSays has brigaded and harassed subreddits for as long as it's existed.

Its slogan is Bring Reddit Down, for fuck's sake.

Why haven't you banned it yet?

Katynrosja · 15分前

Why isn't /r/ShitRedditSays banned?

DyrtyW · 21分前

And by only sub with more than 5000 members they mean one that hit 151,000 yesterday. But yeah someone getting upset about something they can change about themselves is much more important to sensor than obvious and blatant Racism and White Supremacy, well done mods... well done

LuminiferousPen · 15分前

All hail glorious leader Ellen Pao!

BlueLinchpin · 13分前

You guys are a joke.

ExplodingJesus · 12分前

This is a hole with no bottom. Admins will now be fielding non-stop requests from person "x" because sub "y" offended them somehow and they will try to spin it as harassment.

Example: every person ITT asking what about this or that sub.

ninjapro · 7分前

Woah. /r/fatpeoplehate (FPH) was actually banned. This seems like a crazy knee-jerk reaction.

While FPH may have been relatively circlejerky and superficially vicious, it was a subreddit where people would go expressly to vent. Very rarely would personal information be included or anyone targeted and when that does happen, generally the mods were fantastic at shooing off the post. (as a side note: the mods on FPH were some of the most active and fair mods that I had seen in a subreddit that large). FPH certainly seems far too vicious at first glance, but their bark is far, far worse than their bite.

Larger subreddits, I'll use /r/atheism as an example, have had far more targeted threads and nobody really bats an eye at that. At first glance, the top thread in /r/atheism is about a couple, who are named and pictured in the linked article, threatening to divorce if gay marriage is passed.

This is a direct, identifying piece of information. Yet, nobody's calling witchhunting, though when someone inevidently does, it's generally defended because "/r/athesim is a place where atheists can vent about the religious they run into every day."

FPH, which rarely ever posted personal information, should not be considered more harassing than specific subs which are borderline controversial. /r/funny isn't accused of harassing when there's a joke about Kayne West or Kim Kardashian; /r/pcmasterrace isn't considered harassment towards console gamers; and /r/ShitRedditSays literally targets users' comments in an attempt to brigade them. So why is FPH so specifically vilified?

TLDR: /r/fatpeoplehate is not the the only or worst harassers on the internet or even Reddit. This targeting does not seem justified.

Libertarian-Party · 23分前

I'm glad that the administration are finally removing /r/srs for their harassment of redditors

CrackheadControl · 19分前

The following Subreddits are ok, but /r/fatpeoplehate crosses the line?

/r/watchpeopledie /r/SexWithDogs /r/sexwithhorses /r/CandidFashionPolice /r/GreatApes /r/killallfuckinjews /r/necroporn /r/RapingWomen /r/wincest /r/CuteFemaleCorpses /r/SexyAbortions /r/beatingwomen2 /r/Upskirt
/r/downblouse

Those are ok to you Jessica (/u/5days), Ellen (/u/ekjp), Alexis (/u/kn0thing), but /r/fatpeoplehate is wrong? That's not right.

waterboysh · 30分前

If a subreddit has been banned for harassment, you will see that in the ban notice.

When I go to /r/fatpeoplehate I do not see this. All I see is:

this subreddit has been banned

most likely this was done automatically by our spam filtering program. the program is still learning, and may even have some bugs, so if you feel the ban was a mistake, please submit a link to our request a subreddit listing and be sure to include the exact name of the subreddit.

EDIT: It's already been changed. It now says.

this subreddit has been banned

This subreddit has been banned for violating the reddit rules to keep everyone safe

Which reads like the general news we see all the time where everyone responds "Because terrorists"

TotesMessenger · 23分前

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njbrooks · 11分前

This is a horrible and not very well though out idea, here's why.

Use /r/fatpeoplehate as example. Room full of people, door is locked, door says "Room to discuss distaste for obese people". Obviously nobody who is obese would enter that room, right? Everyone in this room loves to rail and make fun of fat people. This is good, because everyone who is fat on the outside of the room can't hear or see what they're doing. You guys over at reddit HQ say "hm, maybe we shouldn't keep all those people in the same room, talking about negative things". You say "ok!" and unlock the door and tell everyone "sorry you can't hang out in this room anymore, but you can go to any of the other rooms"

People from /r/fatpeoplehate room proceed to harass and project distaste for obese people in other rooms and in an uncontrolled manner since there is no place to talk about this without repercussion. In the end nobody is happy.

ND3s · 23分前

They banned: https://www.reddit.com/r/neofag

AspenCanEataDick · 13分前

And yet you guys have not banned /r/shitredditsays a sub which actively breaks reddit rules as its purpose. Congrats you disgusting totalitarians

kindanotrich · 11分前

Suck a dick Ms. Admin. Fuck you 'cause censorship.

odiin1731 · 11分前

This slope we're on is getting slipperyer and slipperyer.

GatorDontPlayThatSht · 10分前

Reddit is a corporation and this is about money. There is no transparency here, and their decisions are completely hypocritical, ignore them and find a new site, the sjws have won guys.

[deleted] · 10分前

You are fucking hypocrites. Why is /r/coontown still around? FUCK YOU. Bye bye, you have jumped the shark.

theone899 · 22分前

Hey, how about removing /r/ShitRedditSays?

lvmatt702 · 26分前

And you keep coontown up. lol if your going to ban "hateful" subreddits maybe do the ones that dont affect your friends or family too. This was fph targeting and nothing else under the guise of "reform"

Edit for mispell

TinyEarl · 18分前

> we're banning behavior

> shitredditsays not banned

hmmmmmmmmm

asilvermtzion · 13分前

Not happy with you, reddit... /r/fatpeoplehate was pretty vile at times, but it was representative of a large chunk of this community and it's removal is creating a false environment here. We're all pretending to have freedom of speech and freedom of censorship but the reality is that we've only got that freedom if reddit sees fit to let us have it. We spin this place like it's a democracy, voting up and down as we feel posts and comments deserve, but big brother reddit is feeding us only what big brother reddit wants us to be fed and that makes a lie of the democracy we pretend to have here.

Moderation, not censorship.

Robert_T_Pooner · 23分前

This is really a troubling step IMO. Given the fact that only one of the banned subreddits was named and the statement referring to adding people to "manage community issues" I am getting the signal that reddit is going to become much more restrictive in the future. I agree that direct targeting of individuals is not something that reddit should facilitate, but I get the impression that the reddit admins are going to become more and more "hands on" in terms of censorship. I'm afraid that the open internet I grew up with is not going to survive the coming decade. Perhaps I'm just being overly sensitive. I hope so.

hastdubutthurt · 18分前

It's truly unbelievable to me the level to which reddit had bowed to political correctness.

chocoboat · 19分前

Will you also be banning negative comments towards (or images displaying the harmful effects of) drug addiction, alcohol addiction, gambling addiction, gaming addiction, painkiller addiction, and so on?

No? Just food addiction and nothing else? Solid logic there.

huehuelewis · 18分前

What if fph gets replaced with a sub that allows pictures mocking fat people but no comments allowed? Seems like that would be the perfect way to skirt this bullshit rule you just introduced to single out a couple subs

HarvestProject · 15分前

So you guys are going to leave up /r/coontown? Fucking hypocrites.

Endless_Summer · 15分前

Who did fatpeoplehate harass?

czoey11 · 12分前

ham status = triggered

DrPineappleButts · 11分前

/r/conspiracy just came. Could you hear it? All 20 of them?

DeadGamerWalking · 7分前

why isn't /r/ShitRedditSays banned for harassment? They are no different than /r/fatpeoplehate

brainandforce · 30分前

you forgot /r/shitredditsays

[edit] I'm surprised to see /r/theredpill is also still up, but I guess they're not harassing anyone (at least on this site) so there's no reason to ban them.

PawnStarRick · 19分前

Fat mods confirmed.

TheRiceLord · 28分前

What about /r/coontown?

hadapurpura · 23分前

What about /r/CandidFashionPolice ?

Luxray · 23分前

I don't like this. If you don't go to those subs, you wouldn't even know those people are being "harassed", including the very people they're "harassing." That's not harassment. If the individual isn't even affected and would literally never know if they didn't come to reddit, if it's completely ignorable by simply not going on one part of a website, it's not harassment. And to be clear, I think /r/fatpeoplehate is deplorable, but that doesn't mean I think it needs to be shut down.

potentialcontender · 21分前

Quick, everyone throw your hands up and say "Wheee!" as we slide down this slippery slope together.

explodyboompow · 27分前

Oh man, this is going to be a fun couple days.

If anybody needs me, I'll be in the drama-bunker.

Don't call for me unless a new game trailer is released.

saxindustries · 22分前

I dunno how I feel about this. On one hand, I thought /r/fatpeoplehate was a pretty terrible subreddit. Just a bunch of people being giant dickheads to people they don't know, and those people are usually just being. I also don't care for /r/cringe, /r/cringepics, etc - those are also people being giant dickheads, usually laughing at people's own unaware awkwardness.

But some subreddits get into a murky area: at first /r/creepypms seems like it fits in - they're taking screencaptures of direct messages and sharing them with the world, at face value that's a dick move. But /r/creepypms operates as this semi-support group, and I want to say people have learned how to better deal with creepy stalkers because of it.

/r/thathappened is another grey area. It's mostly screenshots of people telling lies on Facebook and tumblr. People are taking those posts, removing the context, and presenting them to a different audience for humor. Is that harassment? I'm honestly asking, I don't really know.

I understand reddit wants to attract a certain audience, and /r/fatpeoplehate was a terrible, mean subreddit. But I always figured, if I don't like a subreddit I just don't need to subscribe to it or participate, there's plenty of other subreddits with quality people making quality content.

ColdRain · 29分前

This is absolutely ridiculous.

Tomes2789 · 13分前

This is DISGUSTING. I am fat and I still think it's dispicible that you are removing /r/fatpeoplehate.

It's extremely sad to see that Reddit is now a conformist and Politically Correct website. I may have to stop coming here.

HobocoreHero · 13分前

Today the calories won.

WalterOzymandias · 23分前

So it begins, everyone take cover and get in the bunker!

Raysharp · 21分前

For everyone who is wondering, these are the banned subreddits.

r/hamplanethatred (3071 subscribers)

r/transfags (149)

r/neofag (1239)

r/shitniggerssay (219)

credit to /u/ekjp

SkullTrumpetDootDoot · 15分前

This is not right. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

skyreset · 15分前

There are so many worse subreddits. Individual users in /r/funny are worse than most of reddit.

Googan · 14分前

Fucking bullshit! Way to sensor a group of people who strongly believe in the same thing. FAT is Disgusting!

another_f-ing_user · 14分前

VOAT!

blacklight111 · 12分前

What. The. Fuck.

the_true_swede · 12分前

So, when are you banning shitRedditSays?

Zaktastic · 12分前

So what about /r/ShitRedditSays?

NateSamsung · 10分前

Shaming fat people and their behavior is more about the anti marketing that reddit sees. McDonald's is a big contributor around reddit. Egg mcmuffin posts and the Usain Bolt chicken mcnugget TIL are just the recent tip of the iceberg.

ghastlyactions · 10分前

Ah I see. So to keep people from "having" yo see optional subreddits that they can only optionally see, you'll ban them.

Hail Emperor Pao!

Guess men's rights is next, followed by the red pill, atheism offends alot of people, but /r/protectandserve offends me with their blatant bias and harassing of victims of police brutality, so....

ultraRightWing · 9分前

Guess it is time for everyone to move to voat.co.

raffastafarian · 15分前

/r/fatpeoplehate was doing the same thing for modern people what the "smoking is gross and smokers are gross" ad campaigns of the 80's and 90's once did.

But you're sad about it this time around, so you call it "harassment". Take a look in the mirror.

HomerSimpsonXronize · 23分前

Alright if you are going to ban /r/fatpeoplehate you might want to ban /r/subredditdrama and a bunch of other subs as well for harassment of users as well as brigading and breaking other site wide rules.

dude2k5 · 26分前

While /r/fatpeoplehate was hateful, it changed my view and made me fit. It was one of the only things that made me realize the other side, most people will lie to you and tell you "it's ok". If you can fix a problem, do it. Obesity is something you can fix. I'm really not sure I agree with this decision at all. I understand people don't like it, but avoid it, don't ban it. Though, I suppose it was leaking outside it's own subreddit a lot. Won't be a popular opinion, but without fatpeoplehate, I would still be fat and have the same mentality of "this is okay since everyone else is overweight".

Trosso · 22分前

You guys are a bunch of fuckwits seriously.

NotYourLocalCop · 23分前

Wow. Fuck you Reddit.

vagbuffet · 31分前

Is this tumblr or something?

Jesus_Faction · 24分前

THIS SLOPE IS GETTING SLIPPERY BOYS

ThrowawayShitlord777 · 22分前

Why would you ban /r/fatpeoplehate and not the rest of the harassing subreddits?

And /r/fatpeoplehate isn't even harassment, it's just making fun of what disgusting pigs we have in our society. It's exactly like /r/tumblr posting pictures of people making fools of themself, but instead they are fat.

Honestly fucking retarded. Back to 4chan or some shit, cause reddit pretty much sucks now. So much for a "pure site". "Pure site" till you do something that pisses the feminist fattys off over at reddit headquarters.

OH and letting gore, dead children, dead animals, racist shit, and sexist shit to women and men is okay.. but not the little fattys? There fee fees hurt that much? LOL stupid reddit

imatree · 18分前

Well, I guess that's one way to turn away 150,000 users of your website with one button click.

Can you stop at least pretending that it's about harassment? /r/FPH had no harassing content and was never used in that way. What happened to "transparency is important to us"? Have the balls to give the real reason.

oBBKo · 27分前

This is a pretext for other things, come on.

DOWN WITH CHAIRMAN PAO!!!

serialstitcher · 16分前

There is a zero percent chance you will ban /r/ShitRedditSays and they are infamous for vote brigading, nasty PMs and various other forms of harassment, up to and including getting people fired from their jobs for perceived transgressions against various minorities.

Fuck this policy. I was not a huge fan of fatpeoplehate, but I had never heard a single thing about them extending their reach outside of their own subreddit to harass people

What does "safe space" even mean? Please define that term so the community can have a real discussion about it instead of using it as a bullshit vague coverall for anything that hurts peoples feelings.

Does it mean that if somebody accidentally clicks on a "mean" subreddit their fee fees are so triggered that they must remain on the page and suffer?

Vladie · 30分前

Can I blame this on Chairwoman Pao?

soulscratch · 32分前

Talk about censorship...

Czechmarks · 24分前

Confirmed, reddit is run by fatasses

kermitdaftfrog · 32分前

Inb4 shit storm over r/fatpeoplehate begins

vorrishnikov · 28分前

So FPH gets b& while the "chimpire" stays up?

What the fuck.

TheeReconciler · 30分前

I would like to see the list of the banned subreddits.

Trilandian · 23分前

Chairman Pao is on a rampage :O

Soli--Noid · 13分前

so /r/theredpill, /r/coontown, /r/gasthekikes, /r/cutefemalecorpses are still allowed, but not FPH? reddit mods are fucking pathetic

Emazinng · 13分前

Yishan Wong, the site's former CEO, has stated that "We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it."

So much for that

muhtriggurs · 12分前

Go fuck yourself Pao.

I've never seen a sub with a mod team more deeply dedicated to containing content to within the sub, preventing brigading and removing identifying information.

SRS pays it lip service, served up with a side dish of tee hee we put that rule on the sidebar so we're covered.

Ban SRS and coontown or your action today is seen as exactly what it is: fuck all to do with harassment and pandering to a specific group.

I ain't holdin' my breath.

sethstorm · 10分前

Reddit, where the SJW's can harass all day long but never get called on it.

ZombieAlpacaLips · 10分前

I'd like to see a list of reddit employees' BMIs, please.

LoneWords · 16分前

Can we just ban reddit then? It gets pretty harass-y most places.

RoryMcK · 15分前

Yeah, /r/coontown and /r/shitredditsays should definitely be banned as well

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