Removing harassing subreddits

HawkeyeTransfer · 35分前

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

SilvanestitheErudite · 43分前

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

CrackheadControl · 44分前

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

ExplodingJesus · 26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.

tethercat · 45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.

na85 · 40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

youareinthematrix · 37分前

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

[deleted] · 24分前

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

digitalpizza · 37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

nsto · 45分前

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

turroflux · 39分前

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

Right.

Stalked_Like_Corn · 16分前

As a fat person who absolutely detests /r/fatpeoplehate to the core. This is bullshit. I've rarely seen them mentioned out in the wild so to speak and they kept it in their subreddit. The way I avoided being targeted by their subreddit was I stayed the fuck out if which is the whole point of the unsubscribe button. To NOT see things I don't want to see.

This is nothing more than just systematic reduction on edgy subreddits yet again. What i'm shocked about is that it wasn't because of bad media attention like jailbait, creepshots, and thefappening. I hate that subreddit but I stayed the fuck out of it. THat's the POINT of Reddit.

What's funny more is that creepshots is STILL back and NOTHING has been done to them to take it down because, you don't fucking care. Plain and simple, you don't fucking care. I was upset when you took down jailbait and creepshots though I didn't go into them. The fappening I never went into but I didn't like that being taken down either. Now this? Keep on Reddit admins. Keep on keeping on because You can ask Digg and Co. what happens when you push a userbase too far.

Meanwhile /r/shitredditsays keeps chugging along despite openly FLAUNTING the rules of vote briggading. They bite their thumbs at you sir. Yet you continue to let it go on. Why?

frankenmine · 31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?

CrackheadControl · 33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.

Gloman42 · 40分前

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

Endless_Summer · 29分前

Who did fatpeoplehate harass?

dfsac85 · 42分前

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

really_cool_name · 41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 ?

RTE2FM · 24分前

www.voat.co

blottomotto · 19分前

found the fatty

njbrooks · 25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.

My point is, people have opinions that will offend others, but we can control the chaos by letting these people discuss those offensive opinions in a controlled environment.

CommonWhiteGirl666 · 32分前

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

jwshyy · 24分前

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

chocoboat · 28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)!

Robert_T_Pooner · 37分前

This is really a troubling step IMO. 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.

SkullTrumpetDootDoot · 29分前

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

SplodeyDope · 46分前

How about /r/shitredditsays ?

nixonrichard · 36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.

Thezanthex · 33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.

pm_me_things_you_lov · 41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 · 45分前

What are the other 4 banned subreddits?

waterboysh · 44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"

Libertarian-Party · 37分前

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

PM_YOUR_YOUTUBE_VIDs · 37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.

TotesMessenger · 37分前

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Katynrosja · 29分前

Why isn't /r/ShitRedditSays banned?

DyrtyW · 35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

likferd · 29分前

RIP Reddit. The beginning of the end.

Jesus_Faction · 39分前

THIS SLOPE IS GETTING SLIPPERY BOYS

Swissguru · 24分前

Pathetic.

I_love_male_butts · 29分前

Just be upfront that the reason FPH was banned was because it hit too close to home for the vast majority of you.
Can't keep a good shitlord down. They'll get up, unassisted.

UlfricRainCoat · 45分前

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

NotYourLocalCop · 37分前

Wow. Fuck you Reddit.

LuminiferousPen · 29分前

All hail glorious leader Ellen Pao!

whendoesOpTicplay · 24分前

RIP /r/fatpeoplehate. Fuck you admins.

theone899 · 36分前

Hey, how about removing /r/ShitRedditSays?

AspenCanEataDick · 27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

RedSocks157 · 31分前

Here's some feedback for you: I'm going to voat. You can take your SJW, safe-space nonsense and shove it. /u/ekjp has been changing this site for the worse since she got here, and the repeated bannings and deletions of anything talking about her bs attempts at extortion of her former employer only prove that she shouldn't be in charge of anything.

I'll probably be banned or shadowbanned for this. I don't care. I bet the reddit admin who does it will feel real good about themselves, using a tool originally meant to stop spam in order to remove anything they don't like or deem sufficiently "safe".

FPH might not have been nice, and you know what I wouldn't be upset if these rules were being applied equally The continued existence of SRS is a pretty clear indicator of that.

Emazinng · 27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

hastdubutthurt · 33分前

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

brent0935 · 25分前

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

raffastafarian · 29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.

potentialcontender · 35分前

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

Luxray · 37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.

chocoboat · 33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.

ZombieAlpacaLips · 24分前

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

another_f-ing_user · 28分前

VOAT!

blacklight111 · 26分前

What. The. Fuck.

DrPineappleButts · 25分前

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

kindanotrich · 25分前

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

PistolPete23 · 20分前

Welp, Reddit is selling out. Time to move on folks. What alternatives are there? Perhaps we can learn to love Digg again.

Wafflenotblue · 19分前

Fucking fatties

Kolisk · 8分前

This isn't an attempt to stop harrasment, this is Reddit admins paving the way for censoring anything they deem worthy.

This is bullshit, the point of having an avenue for conversation is that you can see the view of all sides of an argument. But now one side of the argument is subject to being completely silenced.

xilog · 25分前

Oh DO fuck off, you raging SJW fuckwads.

HobocoreHero · 27分前

Today the calories won.

ninjapro · 21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.

HomerSimpsonXronize · 37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.

PawnStarRick · 33分前

Fat mods confirmed.

dude2k5 · 40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".

CaptainReginald · 24分前

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

Classy, Reddit.

BlueLinchpin · 27分前

You guys are a joke.

ttifiblog · 24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?

ThrowGoToGo · 35分前

Yeah right, /r/fatpeoplehate didn't break any rules. Just admit you didn't like the subreddit.

muhtriggurs · 27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.

Raysharp · 36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

NateSamsung · 25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.

GatorDontPlayThatSht · 24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.

ShitlordTeen · 24分前

What about /r/coontown? Didn't it brigade /r/blackladies once?

ghastlyactions · 24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 · 23分前

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

Da_Plutonian · 22分前

Are you fucking kidding?

What the fuck is this? Seriously? Fuck this website. Fuck Ellen Pao and her thieving fat husband. Fuck the admins for having 0 transparency about anything. Fuck anybody who has a problem with free speech.

outofband · 18分前

There is absolutely NO WAY this is going to backfire.

As someone who despised FPH, this is a very stupid action, admins.

misquotes_wikipedia · 14分前

Just going on record that this is unacceptable.

TinyEarl · 32分前

> we're banning behavior

> shitredditsays not banned

hmmmmmmmmm

serialstitcher · 30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?

voltism · 40分前

Ban /r/announcements plz, you hurt my precious feelings

asilvermtzion · 27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.

ColdRain · 44分前

This is absolutely ridiculous.

lvmatt702 · 40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

brainandforce · 44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.

TheRiceLord · 42分前

What about /r/coontown?

Tomes2789 · 27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.

vorrishnikov · 42分前

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

What the fuck.

ND3s · 37分前

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

Soli--Noid · 27分前

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

oBBKo · 41分前

This is a pretext for other things, come on.

DOWN WITH CHAIRMAN PAO!!!

aidotato5 · 32分前

r/EllenPaongyang

LoneWords · 30分前

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

skyreset · 29分前

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

RoryMcK · 29分前

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

Jebezeuz · 27分前

It's a fucking joke. Bye.

the_true_swede · 26分前

So, when are you banning shitRedditSays?

beetnemesis · 23分前

This seems kind of silly. By all means, ban any users who are harassing, shut down any specific posts that are encouraging doxxing, brigading, or whatever. But if they want to bitch about overweight people in their walled off area, who cares?

1sttimepleasebgentle · 22分前

This is the beginning of the end of Reddit, ladies and gentlemen.

skinny_b · 8分前

>share ideas and content on an open platform

>open platform

>censors shit daily

Stopped reading there.

Go fucking yourself, reddit. Ellen Pao is an ugly vapid cunt and so are the admins.

Faggots.

RobotsandSpaceships · 8分前

doesn't tell us how they chose the banned subreddits

doesn't give an actual list of all the banned subreddits

This is ridiculous.

PokeyNoes · 7分前

So, I guess the admins are going to ban /r/JustNeckbeardThings any time now for exactly the same reason, right?

Any time now.

Nazzabo · 7分前

Whoever posted this is probably a massive hamplanet

turdovski · 7分前

This is the beginning of the end for reddit. You guys are DIGGing your own graves.

pointmanzero · 6分前

welcome to reddit where the rules are made up and the points don't matter.

Hey remember when we left Digg? It's time to do that again.

MissModel · 6分前

I can't fucking believe this. It's so many horrible subs out there and fatpeoplehate gets banned because of some hurt feelings? We actively discouraged brigading and doxxing. We needed the place as a safe space to vent without the backlash. I swear, if I wasn't a mod at Thinspo I would delete my account

Wraith978 · 6分前

You guys are shooting yourselves in the foot.

EspritFort · 41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?

Vladie · 44分前

Can I blame this on Chairwoman Pao?

imatree · 33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.

hadapurpura · 37分前

What about /r/CandidFashionPolice ?

DeadGamerWalking · 21分前

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

Unoeye · 37分前

What an inconvenience. Someone please let me know what the new /r/fatpeoplehate subreddit is when it's created.

ChiefNugs · 39分前

I have 10 months of Gold remaining. Is there any way I can get my money back?

Trilandian · 37分前

Chairman Pao is on a rampage :O

sethstorm · 24分前

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

vagbuffet · 45分前

Is this tumblr or something?

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