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Today we are announcing a change in community management on reddit. Our goal is to enable as many people as possible to have authentic conversations and share ideas and content on an open platform. We want as little involvement as possible in managing these interactions but will be involved when needed to protect privacy and free expression, and to prevent harassment.
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Today we are removing five subreddits that break our reddit rules based on their harassment of individuals. If a subreddit has been banned for harassment, you will see that in the ban notice. The only banned subreddit with more than 5,000 subscribers is r/fatpeoplehate.
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[–]tethercat 155 points156 points157 points  (53 children)
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?
[–]ekjp[A] 85 points86 points87 points  (46 children)
r/hamplanethatred (3071 subscribers), r/transfags (149), r/neofag (1239) and r/shitniggerssay (219)
[–]TheGreatPastaWars 16 points17 points18 points  (7 children)
Whoa. Do you not need to add the first backslash anymore? r/announcements.
Edit: Huh, yes. Does it also work for usernames?
Edit 2: yes.
Edit 3: but it appears that the hover thing from RES doesn't work on them.
Edit 4: reports from the street are telling me that the hover thing works for them. We are working to confirm with others until we can confirm for certain as we do not wish to mislead anyone following this broadcast.
[–]large_butt 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
Yeah, that got added a few days ago. I guess it makes sense and all, but eh
I hate it.
[–]Fletch71011 138 points139 points140 points  (14 children)
Why isn't /r/coontown gone?
[–]SquishSquash81 14 points15 points16 points  (0 children)
"We have no idea where to draw the line, but surely this random flailing will instill confidence in our userbase"
[–]ShainRules 22 points23 points24 points  (1 child)
Seriously that place is more offensive and rooted in hatred than /r/spacedicks.
[–]crazybob1306 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Stumbled on that one before and it's the one I was hoping was removed when reading this.
[–]DLove82 4 points5 points6 points  (1 child)
Because read the announcement.
[–]Brimshae 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
Wait a minute, isn't that the anti-NeoGaf subreddit?
[–]ubuntu_for_dogs 17 points18 points19 points  (1 child)
The transparency is appreciated.
[–]GTS250 25 points26 points27 points  (3 children)
I'm not seeing anything of value lost.
[–]eatyourbrain 12 points13 points14 points  (1 child)
First they came for the speech I didn't like...
[–]huehuelewis 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
I can see why you didn't want to say the n word in your main post
[–]Mutt1223 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
Why are /r/ShitRedditSays and /r/CoonTown allowed to stay?
[–]HomerSimpsonXronize 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
So basically two FPH subs and a few subs that have no activity so you can say you are "doing something."
[–]Libertarian-Party 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
Why wasn't /r/srs banned? This sub harasses users and vote brigades regularly
[–]shittyredditsayers12 4 points5 points6 points  (1 child)
How were those subreddits about harassment? How do you define harassment?
[–]wqzu -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
Are you dumb
[–]im_always_fapping -4 points-3 points-2 points  (1 child)
Thank you for removing those hateful subs!
[–]ImReallyHighBut 11 points12 points13 points  (0 children)
Your name is offensive to me. I've reported you.
[–]Doctorphate -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
Thanks. when is /r/imgoingtohellforthis going? its basically fatpeoplehate on steroids.
[–]jonahandthewhales 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
So .. r/rapingwomen r/watchpeopledie r/coontown and the likes are not as offensive as fatpeoplehate?
fuck you and your feefees.
[–]DorsalAxe 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Heh, no surprise there. A lot of content in those subs were mindless shitposts with little actual discussion, as well as clear cut harassment targeted at specific individuals.
Not that I support censorship, but these subs did have it coming.
[–]Bones_IV 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Do you plan to ban the super racist subs? The two I'm thinking of have 4700 and 10600 subscribers, respectively.
[–]ImReallyHighBut 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Suck My dick you greedy cunt
Is what someone might say
But then again
They don't hire for ethics, do they?
[–]WARNING_SHARP_EDGE 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Thanks general.
[–]glitterwrists 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
I think it's important the admins share the other four in respect of transparency. If these other subreddits go against the values of the mods, it would be helpful for Redditors to know where lines are being drawn to avoid future issues.
[–]The_Wizard_Of_Wang 3 points4 points5 points  (1 child)
Chairman Pao forgot to mention /r/fatpeoplehate.
[–]Advacar 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
It's in the OP text...
[–]SilvanestitheErudite 68 points69 points70 points  (4 children)
Is there going to be transparency as to how subreddits are determined to be harrasing?
[–]virtous_relious 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
That would require honest open info based on a reason other than some peiole with hurt fee fees, so most likely no.
[–]CrackheadControl 330 points331 points332 points  (66 children)
Why is /r/fatpeoplehate banned, but /r/coontown get to exist? That's bullshit.
[–]Mista_Phista 15 points16 points17 points  (0 children)
I laughed at first, then clicked the subreddit and I agree. The subreddit has more harassment geared towards wrong doing than /fatpeoplehate
[–]ThealcoholicGoat 43 points44 points45 points  (9 children)
Holy shit I haven't even heard of /r/coontown before. How is that not banned? Looks worse than FTP from those 5 minutes I browsed it.
[–]CrackheadControl 34 points35 points36 points  (7 children)
There are tons of racist and misogynistic out there worse than FPH. Ever hear of /r/RapingWomen?
[–]laiki 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
Aren't there like hundreds of racist, disturbingly sexist (like pro-rape) or neo-nazi subs on reddit? I think reddit should ban all of them if only to save themselves the embarrassment of being associated with them.
[–]jonahandthewhales 3 points4 points5 points  (1 child)
fuck raping women, the fees of the fat are more important.
[–]LexLugerChantSample 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
hah lol I don't like those subs either but don't call the admins hypocrites. That sub wasn't harassing people like FPH was.
[–]matike 1 point2 points3 points  (2 children)
Yeah, /r/beatingwomen got banned, why the fuck is /r/rapingwomen still up? I'm not about censorship at all, but come on.
[–]matike 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Oh, great.
[–]UlfricRainCoat 2 points3 points4 points  (1 child)
What the fuck? I think everyone in /r/fatpeoplehate is/was scum, but how isn't that banned first?
[–]nixonrichard 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Are they harassing anyone?
[–]Bones_IV 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
And it's more than twice as huge. 10.6k subs.
[–]tichondrius 147 points148 points149 points  (12 children)
Because making fun of fat people is worse than racism, I guess.
[–]thezooman123 32 points33 points34 points  (2 children)
A lot of redditors are fat racists that only care about white people.
Makes sense that they would care more about FPH than coontown.
There are plenty of coontown posters that even have been trying to get FPH banned for a while
[–]tichondrius 2 points3 points4 points  (1 child)
Yeah, I'm not surprised that it's finally happening like this. I'd just be embarrassed to be basically saying that fat hate subreddits are worse than the racist subreddits, "sexy fetus" subreddits, etc.
[–]MrDeckard 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
If I understand correctly, the idea is that Fat People Hate would leak more than /r/coontown, and /r/coontown brigade comments were generally less successful, minimizing the harm they can do.
[–]Exemus 20 points21 points22 points  (1 child)
I guess the admins are fat and white.
[–]go_sens 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Is that really a revelation?
[–]nukedorbit 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
Think about it this way. Earlier this week, an image made it to the frontpage of both Imgur and /r/all, from FPH. It was a picture of the admins of Imgur, calling them Hammy Hams or something. Within a few hours, FPH was banned on Imgur. This raised their hackles all up about being 'censored'.
Imgur is Reddit's primary content provider, outside of redditors self posting; We upload all of our cat pictures on their website, then link them here, where it's viewed by millions of people.
Also, if you were an admin/owner of Imgur, and saw a picture of your employees, calling them Hammy Ham's or lard asses or whatever the fuck it was, basically harrassing them for having a double chin, wouldn't that piss you smooth the fuck off? Wouldn't you want to put a foot down against that?
[–]LexLugerChantSample 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Perhaps because FPH was harassing more and had a bigger influence?
[–]FrankFeTched 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Well I mean it makes sense because those stupid black people that choose their race are just not hardworking nor motivated enough to change it for the better.
Some people are just born fat, how are they supposed to help it?
[–]turdbuttpoop 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Size-ism is a more serious issue. Health at every size! You wouldn't understand, what with your thin privilege.
/s
[–]siccoblue -2 points-1 points0 points  (2 children)
If we're being honest, taking part in either makes you a fairly shitty individual
[–]tichondrius 5 points6 points7 points  (1 child)
If we're being honest, taking priority in deleting a sub about fat people being "annoying" instead of deleting a sub that focuses on hating an entire racial group is stupid.
[–]siccoblue -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
Being fat goes across all racial groups, doesn't that make it much more widespread?
[–]heefledger 178 points179 points180 points  (4 children)
Fat admins?
[–]HannibalK 11 points12 points13 points  (0 children)
Admins confirmed as fat racists.
[–]mar10wright 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Fatmins
[–]go_sens -1 points0 points1 point  (2 children)
Exactly this. FPH doesn't harass people on reddit outside of FPH, why is it gone
[–]sterffff 0 points1 point2 points  (1 child)
Are you genuinely this stupid? The entire fucking sub was creepshots of fat people that had done literally nothing wrong. Half of them were in a gym, for fucks sake.
[–]Shark_Fucker 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Found the fatty!
[–]The_Wizard_Of_Wang 37 points38 points39 points  (0 children)
Because the admins are fat, not black.
[–]my_name_is_not_robin 107 points108 points109 points  (7 children)
Same reason why gore, porn, racism, sexism, domestic abuse, etc. are okay on imgur but pictures of fat people are suddenly not. Look at pictures of the imgur admins and you'll find the answer. Tbh I would have rather seen theredpill go loooong before FPH.
At this rate they'll be banning /r/tumblrinaction soon, too. Woop woop go the fee fees police.
[–]Magus10112 12 points13 points14 points  (0 children)
See, this is the problem. Using the guise of "harrassment", admins can ban and wipe selective subreddits and leave others. There are no clear guidelines for what "harrassment" is. This is why this type of censorship is a problem, because it doesn't stop here.
[–]Cptfailboat104 24 points25 points26 points  (1 child)
maybe they just haven't gotten to it yet. They emphasized that this is ongoing.
[–]CrackheadControl 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
Bullshit.
[–]DyrtyW 31 points32 points33 points  (0 children)
Fee fees
[–]FPHThrowaway1234 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
Because the admins and executives at reddit are fat fucks or SJW fanatics. Except if you're black. They dont give a shit about black people.
[–]hyperfat 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Yeah, pics of cute dead girls and the other one i think pics of dead kids are still up.
Oh and I am pretty sure painal is still up too. Do not click random pages.
[–]GtSaysWhat 6 points7 points8 points  (6 children)
Wow they just deleted a community that was in the top 250. Fuck the reddit fatties. Welp i'm off to voat to get my daily intake of fatpeoplehate.
Boo hoo a subreddit that hurts people's feeling is banned yet disgusting subs like coontown and sexyfemalecorpses is still here.
[–]DancingPurpleCat 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Can you DM me the voat link? I wish that I had saved for when this happened.
[–]OfficerTwix -2 points-1 points0 points  (0 children)
Have fun with Voats terrible UI
[–]Siderian -2 points-1 points0 points  (0 children)
We won't miss you.
[–]NotKateBush -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
It would be awesome if you and all your outraged friends move over to that neckbeardy site.
[–]MrDeckard -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
The fact that FPH was in the top 250 is fucking shameful.
[–]mathgod -4 points-3 points-2 points  (0 children)
You won't be missed.
[–]Mike9797 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
Give it time and I'm sure all that are offensive will suffer the same fate.
[–]turroflux 40 points41 points42 points  (2 children)
So /r/BeatingCripples - /r/sexyabortions - /r/StruggleFucking continue to exist but a sub that mocks fat people is crossing the line?
Right.
[–]shinydragonite 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
It's true, those are awful subreddits, but atn they don't seem to be actively harassing other people on the site, which is what this announcement is about.
[–]HawkeyeTransfer 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
How can you harass fetuses? They're dead.
[–]dfsac85 15 points16 points17 points  (2 children)
I am glad you guys didn't delete /r/fuckolly . Because seriously, fuck that kid.
[–]fivemanship 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Can anybody explain why nobody likes olly? I'm not saying I like olly, per se, but the only reason I can see people not liking him is because he shot Jon Snow's gf with an arrow, but he really didn't know any better -- he's just a kid stuck in a crazy war. Why fuckolly and not fuckramsay or fuckcersei??
[–]Muppet1616 60 points61 points62 points  (1 child)
What are the other 4 banned subreddits?
[–]TheTreelo 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
r/hamplanethatred (3071 subscribers), r/transfags (149), r/neofag (1239) and r/shitniggerssay (219)
[–]Gloman42 13 points14 points15 points  (1 child)
but subreddits with pictures of cute dead girls is ok...
[–]fazzah -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
well, they're dead already, so you can't harm them.
fucking double standards.
[–]UlfricRainCoat 50 points51 points52 points  (3 children)
Is there a full list of those banned? Just curious.
[–]brainandforce 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
Dammit you had me there.
[–]nsto 168 points169 points170 points  (54 children)
Did /r/fatpeoplehate actually harass people outside of the subreddit?
[–]HarpoC 71 points72 points73 points  (6 children)
Nope.
Interesting how /r/coontown still exists.
Being fat is a choice and I will hate them all I want. Apparently that's "harrasment", but hating black people is totally ok? Thanks reddit.
[–]NicknameUnavailable 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
/r/coontown has over 10,000 subscribers - looks like they would have had to stop feigning only 1 subreddit was impacted. It will probably get banned in this round of purges, just not in the announcement.
If there's anything Reddit admins love, it's helping kill free speech.
[–]Oderdigg -26 points-25 points-24 points  (4 children)
Being fat is a choice and I will hate them all I want. Apparently that's "harrasment", but hating black people is totally ok? Thanks reddit.
So much wrong with this statement, no idea where to start.
[–]Rithe 10 points11 points12 points  (0 children)
Such as?
[–]Novaliqu 10 points11 points12 points  (1 child)
Please tell us what is wrong with it and I will tear your argument apart.
[–]sdneidich 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Well for one: Hatred is not harassment, it is a feeling. One which you are free to have. Only actions can be considered harassment.
[–]Trosso 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
Being fat is 99.99% a choice, there's really no argument.
Can't really help being black though.
So yeah their argument is accurate.
[–]Werner__Herzog 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
You just need to go through the comments here, there's already at least one.
[–]BarbatisCollum 36 points37 points38 points  (20 children)
Their sidebar image was pictures of the employees of imgur.com and some snide comments about their weight, so I would say they were.
[–]sgtmas2006 67 points68 points69 points  (13 children)
It's not outside of the subreddit. Reddit hasn't been a place for freedom of speech for a long time.
[–]lakelly99 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
you don't have the right of freedom of speech on a privately owned website. get the fuck over it
[–]sgtmas2006 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
That's why I don't use the site for freedom of speech. There are many better ways and I am working on one of my own.
[–]unicorninabottle -9 points-8 points-7 points  (3 children)
Yes they would do that to others outside the sub. They brigaded a hell of a lot too. There were a few subreddits that would ban people from FPH on sight, not even considering the content of their post and/or comments, which sparked heavy brigades as this news came back to the sub itself.
[–]The_Wizard_Of_Wang 8 points9 points10 points  (2 children)
No we didn't. Automod removed all reddit links.
[–]unicorninabottle -3 points-2 points-1 points  (1 child)
The vote patterns within these subs clearly showed that you did. If you disagree that's your thing. I understand you're mad and taking it out here, that's cool, but fact is your sub did.
[–]The_Wizard_Of_Wang 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
You're making shit up. If we brigaded, we would have been banned a long time ago. We didn't allow links, usernames, or anything that could be used to find the source.
[–]Excitable_Poet -10 points-9 points-8 points  (5 children)
there's a difference between freedom of speech, and being a giant jerk for no real good reason
[–]brikdik 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
That's the thing about free speech. It means people can say stuff you don't agree with.
[–]DrewpyDog 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Well, see, there isn't.
Freedom of speech isn't only things you enjoy. It's why the ACLU has defended the KKK many times thought the past.
[–]ImReallyHighBut 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Said no intelligent person ever.
[–]IEatYourFruitLoops 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Really? Cause last I checked being a giant jerk for no real good reason was protected by the constitution...
[–]ImReallyHighBut 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
It's for marketing doritos and clintons
[–]nsto 18 points19 points20 points  (0 children)
Okay but if they're keeping it in the sub and the people in question are unaware that doesn't really fit the definition of harassment.
[–]DyrtyW -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
Boo fucking hoo
[–]ThrowawayShitlord777 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
It wasn't outside of the subreddit, plus if they didn't want their pictures posted, why would they post their pictures up in the first place? No one was harassing them. They are just butt hurt fattys.
[–]go_sens 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
That's only because many imgur admins are lardbuckets. Imgur doesn't give two flying fucks about pictures that are horribly racist, but make fun of a fat person? Well that picture's going down!
[–]Endless_Summer 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Snide comments is not harassment.
[–]III000III 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Posting a cruel picture on a site that the individual doesn't have to look at isn't harassment.
[–]docbloodmoney 17 points18 points19 points  (0 children)
No
[–]CUNexTuesday 31 points32 points33 points  (4 children)
Of course not, but you know SJW's gotta SJW
[–]jkbpttrsn -4 points-3 points-2 points  (2 children)
Um, their sidebar before getting banned had images of imgur employees because imgur deleted images linked to their sub. So yeah it wasn't the horrible ESJAYDUBAYOUS!
[–]Dananddog 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
because Imgur had started removing their links.
[–]auronvi -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
After imgur.com started removing fph images. I think they started that fight.
[–]sp0ck06 -2 points-1 points0 points  (0 children)
Lol the only sjws i see here are bunch of redditors outraged that they can't be assholes.
[–]PoopsieDoodles 12 points13 points14 points  (3 children)
I think there were a few cases where members of /r/fatpeoplehate harassed people in /r/loseit and similar weight-loss subreddits where overweight people posted pictures.
[–]FuzzyBacon 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
So ban those people, not the entire subreddit.
[–]Admiralfox 14 points15 points16 points  (0 children)
no
[–]drtig 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
no, their rules specifically stated not to brigade.
[–]peaceshot 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Nope.
[–]digital_mysticz 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
A lot of the submissions were screengrabs of fatshaming comments they made on Facebook, tumbler, the likes . They insulted real people on social media just to be able to screengrab it and submit it proudly to fph.
[–]ThrowawayShitlord777 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
No one was doing harassing out side of the subreddit. All /r/fatpeoplehate did was post pictures of planets. Then the planets feefees got hurt.
[–]merk444 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
They invaded other subs on multiple occasions.
[–]missmisfit -1 points0 points1 point  (1 child)
as it was a lot of photos taken secretly out in public with the express purpose being to make fun of them I think that counts as "outside Reddit" enough.
[–]Admiralfox 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
But it was only contributed to the subreddit itself. Nothing was linked to other parts of reddit.
[–]Whitellama -1 points0 points1 point  (2 children)
Is it not harassment if it only happens inside the sub?
[–]nsto 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
Harassment means to upset, disturb, or intimidate someone. If it's being kept in the sub and the people being ridiculed don't even know about it, it doesn't fit the definition of harassment.
[–]peaceshot 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
It is not.
I can yell "I hate niggers!" inside my own house with my doors and windows closed and nobody will care one bit. It's the same thing.
[–]sdneidich -18 points-17 points-16 points  (3 children)
Can't say for sure. But they did have some shady practices, like prohibiting voting and commenting unless you were subscribed.
[–]slothkat 9 points10 points11 points  (1 child)
I don't think that's shady at all...
[–]sdneidich 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
It's a pro-hivemind move. If you have to be subscribed to a subreddit to comment or vote, then only a certain set of like-minded individuals will actually be there. That's fine for a tiny subreddit, but one with 50,000+ subscribers means that content is more likely to hit the front page because of the sheer number of upvotes and low number of downvotes content that an overwhelming majority of people would find... distasteful. FPH considers obese people to be less than human-- it went beyond pointing out hypocrisy of SJW or "fativists" or the "big is beautiful" campaign, it would post a lot of barely anonymized facebook shots from nonpublic figures-- many people were no more dumb than you or I. It crossed a line.
[–]factorV 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
how is that shady?
[–]SplodeyDope 379 points380 points381 points  (95 children)
How about /r/shitredditsays ?
[–]hestonkent 149 points150 points151 points  (18 children)
[–]drift1122 49 points50 points51 points  (7 children)
Ban fph but not this!? Wow reddit, just wow...
[–]DietsAreForHitler 3 points4 points5 points  (1 child)
It's ridiculous. You can't change your race. You can change your weight.
[–]drift1122 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
I don't know why your being downvoted??
[–]Captainobvvious 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
There are a lot of subreddits.
FPH was a bigger target than some tiny subreddit they may not even have been aware of.
[–]drift1122 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
It's still ridiculous.
[–]nope_nic_tesla -1 points0 points1 point  (1 child)
It's because /r/CoonTown does not help organize brigading and raiding of other subreddits where users get harassed
[–]lasershurt[🍰] -1 points0 points1 point  (1 child)
It's based on actions, not ideas. Apparently they don't go out and harass people.
[–]drift1122 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Who was harassing people?
[–]Cialis_In_Wonderland 20 points21 points22 points  (2 children)
They didn't do nuffin.
[–]conspiracy_thug -3 points-2 points-1 points  (1 child)
Dey good boys finna get Der degrez in cooniology.
[–]TehAlpacalypse 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
You guys are so edgy
[–]Daisy_DukeNukem 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
To be fair, all subs which are self contained should be free
[–]sleepsholymountain 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Interesting how SRS was the first thing that jumped to people's minds and not this. I guess mocking people for being ignorant douche bags is way worse than actual fucking bigotry to most redditors.
[–]nixonrichard -12 points-11 points-10 points  (4 children)
They actually aren't as bad as you might think. I mean, the content is offensive, but in terms of the behavior . . . it's not so bad.
[–]i_like_frootloops 7 points8 points9 points  (1 child)
Yeah, racism is not bad, right? For fucks sake...
[–]nixonrichard 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Racism is not behavior.
I specifically said their content is offensive.
[–]Kelsig 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
They've brigaded several subreddits shut the fuck up
[–]Poached_Polyps 114 points115 points116 points  (11 children)
Oh I'm sure that one gets to stay.
[–]HannibalK 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
Those fuckers are the most blantant vote manipulators out there.
At least subreddits like /r/bestof and /r/subredditdrama use the np. no participation links so their fans probably won't engage in vote manipulation.
But not shit reddit says lol. They know they have an admin shield.
[–]Sysiphuslove 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
I've never understood the particular hate for that sub. What do they do that /r/SubredditDrama doesn't?
[–]freak_step 84 points85 points86 points  (21 children)
Seriously. Why is this subreddit not banned?
[–]NicknameUnavailable 32 points33 points34 points  (0 children)
Because it is hate that aligns with political beliefs held by the admins.
[–]RamssesSeba 34 points35 points36 points  (1 child)
The admins give SRS and all its sister subreddits carte blanche to do whatever they want because it's what a good feminist would do. You want to be a good feminist, don't you?
[–]Mutt1223 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Not really.
[–]sp0ck06 6 points7 points8 points  (16 children)
Who are they harassing?
[–]Danzerello 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
One time I made a joke about a dad not finding his daughter attractive and about 100-200 people insisted I was a homophobic bigot, for one.
[–]GameDay98 19 points20 points21 points  (8 children)
They brigade any subreddit that posts something they think is offensive.
[–]Vkmies 9 points10 points11 points  (0 children)
something they think is offensive
Which is about 70% of all things that have ever existed.
[–]lasershurt[🍰] 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Then report it, so they can be judged under this rule.
[–]Schemes011 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Examples of brigades? They've got like 60k subs how can they perform any brigades
[–]BreakfastIsComing 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
or problematic
[–]sp0ck06 0 points1 point2 points  (1 child)
Oh i see. Got some specific examples?
[–]GameDay98 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Look on their subreddit.
[–]notevilcraze 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
If so they're bad at it. All the supposedly "brigaded" posts have risen in score, on their front page...
[–]HannibalK 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Literally bridgae, they don't use no participation links. It's pathetically obvious.
[–]gargoyle_mayonnaise 8 points9 points10 points  (2 children)
Literally every thread on SRS targets an individual reddit user and encourages brigading.
I did not see /r/fatpeoplehate organize brigading of any kind. SRS copies user posts with usernames and all that. It's true harassment (whether the targets of harassment deserve it or not is irrelevant) whereas /r/fatpeoplehate was a sub for people to vent and complain about fat people, fat acceptance, etc.
[–]nope_nic_tesla 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
/r/fatpeoplehate organized a brigade of one of the subreddits I moderate on. Their moderators were even encouraging people to do it. I'd link you to the posts that were made there but obviously they are unavailable now
[–]modest-proposal 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
That's total bullshit. FPH brigaded every thread it was mentioned in. It was by far the most egregious vote brigading subreddit. Fuck, they posted threads encouraging to brigade.
[–]PmButtPics4ADrawing 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Nobody. A lot of redditors seem to be under the impression that calling someone out on making a bigoted comment is on the same level as taking photographs of people without their permission and posting them publicly on the internet for the sole purpose of mocking them.
[–]iheartjbiebs -2 points-1 points0 points  (0 children)
How can she slap?
[–]nacholicious -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
According to the admins, SRS are not brigading any more than other meta subs. I would trust them over random redditors with an axe to grind
[–]MarshallBanana -1 points0 points1 point  (1 child)
Probably because it doesn't harass people.
Just guessing wildly here.
[–]freak_step 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Except nearly every post is them taking a single user's comment and attacking the user. Often times brigading the comment and I'm sure sending various harrassing PMs.
[–]locke_door 44 points45 points46 points  (0 children)
Unbanned. What a shock. Love that consistent stance.
[–]LexLugerChantSample 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
Where is evidence it harasses people?
[–]SweetDaddysOnHisWay 11 points12 points13 points  (0 children)
Please
[–]ImMufasa 13 points14 points15 points  (0 children)
They're a protected class.
[–]TotesMessenger 4 points5 points6 points  (1 child)
I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:
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[–]Ihavenocomments 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Damn, that was quick.
[–]CitizenPremier 4 points5 points6 points  (3 children)
Report it. They aren't able to act unless users report.
[–]prince_of_tacoma 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
You can't report an entire subreddit and reporting posts on that subreddit only alerts the mods.
[–]CitizenPremier 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
You can report anything by messaging the admins at the bottom.
Remember, reddit's rules are ultimately about people and their actions. If you can see harassment but can't report it easily, just explain it. They have better investigation tools as well.
[–]mapguy 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Start a report brigade to ban them.
[–]derridad 10 points11 points12 points  (11 children)
Oh man, this shit again. Can someone give me an example of how SRS actually harrases people? Other than baseless claims of brigading, like that's even a big deal. Making fun of people for making "edgy" jokes on Reddit isn't an attempt to come for yer freeze peaches. Criticism of speech isn't abridgement.
[–]GTS250 3 points4 points5 points  (2 children)
You're kinda undermining your point, if you say that the claims are baseless but immediately double back and say "oh they don't do it much"
[–]derridad 0 points1 point2 points  (1 child)
I mean additionally, if the claims were indeed valid. Look at subreddit drama and its various similar incarnations.
[–]GTS250 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Yeah, /srs itself isn't that big (as far as I know, and I don't exactly keep a close eye on them, most of the activity has moved to the myriad sister subs), but it's still a really shitty arguing tactic, to concede before anyone responds to call you out.
[–]lakelly99 7 points8 points9 points  (2 children)
Calling people out on racism, sexism, homophobia = literally harassment
SRS doesn't harass. Or brigade. Hell, they've only got 65k subs, that's not even enough to brigade effectively.
[–]Sureiyaa 4 points5 points6 points  (1 child)
And I'd say at least half of those subscribers aren't even members of the "SRS community". They're just other redditors who want to bitch about it.
[–]lakelly99 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Yep. Visit literally any upvoted post there and you'll see it's somewhere between 60% and 75% upvoted because a ton of people stay there to take away SRS' PRECIOUS KARMA
[–]BarbatisCollum 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
Don't hold your breath waiting on actual examples, although you will probably get plenty of "i heard they doxxed someone" claims.
[–]LastArg 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
They're entirely devoted to mocking and attacking other users. I don't know if there's any direct action but that feels like harassment....
[–]prince_of_tacoma 1 point2 points3 points  (1 child)
Can you give us an actual example of how fph harasses people? I find fph as gross as anyone but their hatred was confined.
[–]derridad 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Being racist /= being overweight
[–]beelzeflub -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
People making argument against SRS are butthurt because they are offended that people think sexist/racist/distasteful content is unacceptable.
[–]shittyredditsayers12 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
That's admin approved harassment silly.
[–]DOWNVOTES_SYNDROME 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
that's not the hate they're eliminating.
[–]radicldreamer 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
I think it absolutely needs to go, but for some reason the powers that be at reddit are either part of the group, or afraid of them.
They are a completely out of control hate group.
[–]Daisy_DukeNukem 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
I'm glad the mods are looking to remove the ONLY active subreddit that brigades and harassed users!!!!! I HAVE HAD THEIR MODS HARASS ME AS WELL
[–]Guillaume_Langis 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
A subreddit 100% devoted to brigading.
[–]nlofe 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Ahahahahahaha
Good one
[–]AssuredlyAThrowAway 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Silence...
Cowards.
[–]vexinom 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Why would that subreddit be banned? There are only articles about the mods harassing suicidal people in other subreddits, brigading while doing it of course.
The admins don't give a shit because it's the type of harassment they support. If it caused someone they don't like to kill themselves, even better in their opinion.
[–]dietotaku 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
It sounds like they are only banning subs that link to other social media profiles. Complaining on Reddit about and linking to things said on Reddit is fair game.
[–]sterffff 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
SRS doesn't harass people..
[–]sleepsholymountain -3 points-2 points-1 points  (2 children)
They said "harassment" not "making fun of you for being an asshole."
[–]Raidicus 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Listen, I don't agree with ANY group being censored on Reddit...but if one sub dedicated to hateful comments, doxing, and brigading is removed from the site then certainly they all should be.
[–]Sysiphuslove -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
Mocking behavior is a lot different from mocking appearance. Especially when the behavior in question is mostly glass-house stone-throwing anyway.
[–]mainvolume -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
Uh, at least put a trigger warning before you post. Stop raping my screen.
[–]stopscopiesme 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
if the admins take ANY comminity-management action, there is always a highly upvoted comment asking "what about SRS?!?!"
jesus christ reddit, you unoriginal fucks. I get tired of reading the exact same circlejerk in these threads, over and over, spanning literal years. I suppose I'm the minority in this, or it wouldn't always get upvoted to the top. It derails the conversation uselessly, because it's produced nothing of value the last 5000 times the circlejerk was had
[–]SlashTwelve -9 points-8 points-7 points  (0 children)
Please, SRS has never participated in any hate towards any individual or group of individuals. Haven't you been keeping up with Chairman Pao's required reading?
[–]conspiracy_thug -6 points-5 points-4 points  (0 children)
Yeah how about those disgusting excuses from human beings.
Ban them. That's a fucking hate group.
[–]rwoc -18 points-17 points-16 points  (2 children)
SRS is just joking around. Sheesh, take a joke once in a while, reddit.
edit: Wow, this place is offended easily.
[–]chocolateboomslang -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
Unfortunately for the human race, not all of them are.
[–]pm_me_things_you_lov 42 points43 points44 points  (1 child)
List of subreddits on the chopping block:
What about /r/coontown though? It's just straight up racism on /new all day long.
[–]28DansLater 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
As far as I know, coontown doesn't harass anyone. It's just honest, American racism.
[–]TheRiceLord 22 points23 points24 points  (0 children)
What about /r/coontown?
[–]TheeReconciler 32 points33 points34 points  (2 children)
I would like to see the list of the banned subreddits.
[–]The_R4ke 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
It's posted above you, in this thread.
[–]EspritFort 6 points7 points8 points  (6 children)
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?
[–]siccoblue 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Pretty much, by far one of the most toxic places on reddit
[–]CherryDaBomb 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Some subscribers also went into other subreddits and took part in downvote brigades and sent harassing messages to posters there. R/loseit, r/gwbbw, r/bhmgonewild and others all felt it. Additionally FPH liked to troll Facebook and Instagram looking for pictures to copy and post and ridicule. Yeah, nothing's safe on the internet, but that's still pretty shitty.
Also, if you want to see proof, just check the number of downvotes on comments in this thread supporting the move.
[–]BetaState 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Yeah, pretty much. I would compare it to "people of walmart." Banning it was a mistake.
[–]ChaosBadgers 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Stories of fat people hatred, pictures of fat people doing 'fat things' etc.
[–]NonnagLava 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Often times it was posts from tumblr/facebook/etc (think like Black people twitter or something), but about overweight people posting "fat-logic" as they called it. Occasionally other posts were made that were a bit more "post pictures of fat people and comment".
[–]raffastafarian 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
FPH was analogous to the "eww smokers are gross and smoking is unhealthy" ad campaigns of the 80's and 90's.
But it's not OK to make fun of the morbidly obese like it is to make fun of smokers. Because reasons.
[–]na85 42 points43 points44 points  (2 children)
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 MBAs 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?
[–]really_cool_name 29 points30 points31 points  (2 children)
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 ?
[–]KRosen333 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Doesn't that mean you have to ban
No why would it mean they have to be consistent?
Besides /r/AgainstMensRights is far far worse than SRS is anyways.
[–]virtous_relious 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Of course not, how does one destroy a protected class?
[–]lvmatt702 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
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 tageting and nothing else under the guise of "reform"
[–]theone899 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
Hey, how about removing /r/ShitRedditSays?
[–]brainandforce 108 points109 points110 points  (1 child)
[edit] I'm also surprised to see /r/theredpill is also still up
[–]bradamantium92 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
Maybe one of these days, someone who links SRS will click through their own link and see it's not a fraction the bogeyman they think it is.
[–]darth_noob 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
This is amazing, fatpeoplehate is banned yet picsofdeadkids isn't (among a fuckton of others). Brafuckingvo admins.
[–]NotYourLocalCop 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
Wow. Fuck you Reddit.
[–]nohamzone 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
So is /r/coontown next? What about /r/shitredditsays???
[–]PM_YOUR_YOUTUBE_VIDs 4 points5 points6 points  (3 children)
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.
[–]HawkeyeTransfer 0 points1 point2 points  (2 children)
$10 says a new fatpeople hate subreddit will be up and running within 24 hours.
[–]PM_YOUR_YOUTUBE_VIDs 0 points1 point2 points  (1 child)
I'll raise you and bet that all the others will too
[–]HawkeyeTransfer 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
I'm really curious if Reddit admin will just reban it?
[–]nixonrichard 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
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.
[–]digitalpizza 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
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
[–]ColdRain 88 points89 points90 points  (1 child)
This is absolutely ridiculous.
[–]cat_with_giant_boobs 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Is it though? They are banning subreddits with which their sole purpose was only to perpetuate hate.
Reddit can't just be unmoderated.
[–]willywag 19 points20 points21 points  (3 children)
If a subreddit has been banned for harassment, you will see that in the ban notice.
This does not appear to be the case on r/fatpeoplehate at the moment. It says that it was "most likely" the automated spam filtering.
EDIT: And now it's fixed. Never mind!
[–]rasputine 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
That's not what it says.
This subreddit has been banned for violating the reddit rules to keep everyone safe
[–]Burial4TetThomYorke 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Now it says "This subreddit has been banned for violating the reddit rules to keep everyone safe"
[–]explodyboompow 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
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.
[–]pomosexuality 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
I'm looking forward to seeing how reddit will change from this. This is a good change but I'm skeptical on how it will be enforced. I imagine subreddits people are complaining about right now in the thread will be dealt with as reports come in.
[–]AndyWarwheels 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
POPCORN! GET YOUR POPCORN HERE!
[–]kermitdaftfrog 55 points56 points57 points  (7 children)
Inb4 shit storm over r/fatpeoplehate begins
[–]dustinyo_ 41 points42 points43 points  (4 children)
inb4 they accuse all the admins of being fat
[–]ClicheResponses 40 points41 points42 points  (1 child)
Wait, they aren't?
[–]Ivanbulls 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
They are fatties of the fattest caliber
[–]HannibalK 20 points21 points22 points  (1 child)
> Implying they're not
[–]Groomper 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Clever /s
[–]NotKateBush 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Ugh, school's out and /r/fatpeoplehate reactionaries are going to swarm the rest of the site now. Hopefully they'll move to another site for their "free speech".
[–]ShouldBe_Working -6 points-5 points-4 points  (0 children)
Boom goes the dynamite
[–]unreconstructedM 20 points21 points22 points  (1 child)
I have a feeling that this relevant XKCD will be popping up quite a bit today.
[–]xkcd_transcriber 8 points9 points10 points  (0 children)
Title: Free Speech
Title-text: I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.
Stats: This comic has been referenced 1522 times, representing 2.2673% of referenced xkcds.

[–]vagbuffet 111 points112 points113 points  (11 children)
Is this tumblr or something?
[–]prince_of_tacoma 19 points20 points21 points  (0 children)
No because tumblr doesn't ban shit. You could post proof of you murdering a person and your intentions to murder more people and there is nothing tumblr would do.
[–]sleepsholymountain 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
Do you actually know anything about tumblr? They pretty much never ban people for harassment over there, it's actually kind of a problem.
[–]NotKateBush 22 points23 points24 points  (1 child)
Have you ever even been to tumblr? Reddit is pretty tame compared to some of the shit on tumblr.
[–]nacholicious 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Reddit basically gets offended and screams oppression at every turn (source: this thread). Tumblr is mostly just porn
[–]sp0ck06 17 points18 points19 points  (1 child)
Tumblr... the place full of pronogrqphic content?
[–]unkz 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Reddit is full of porn too.
[–]Whitellama 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
This is something.
[–]conspiracy_thug 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Yes.
Thanks, Ellen pao
[–]ImReallyHighBut 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Your name is offensive. I have reported you to the fcc
[–]LexLugerChantSample -29 points-28 points-27 points  (1 child)
lol at that
How is this anything like tumblr?
[–]GTS250 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Damn, that instant karma nuke.
[–]waterboysh 19 points20 points21 points  (2 children)
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"
[–]NotKateBush 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Not anymore
this subreddit has been banned
This subreddit has been banned for violating the reddit rules to keep everyone safe about
[–]vorrishnikov 15 points16 points17 points  (0 children)
So FPH gets b& while the "chimpire" stays up?
What the fuck.
[–]PrettyLilHodor 8 points9 points10 points  (2 children)
Okay, can you get rid of The Red Pill?
[–]CherryDaBomb 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
I'm sure they're being watched. I hope.
[–]ParaspriteHugger 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
If you really want to report it, send an AdminMail.
But wait a few days until they shoveled out the trash FPH fanboys sends them.
[–]Vladie 39 points40 points41 points  (2 children)
Can I blame this on Chairwoman Pao?
[–]peaceshot 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
We need to pay her $2.7 million to have the subreddits unbanned.
[–]conspiracy_thug 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Her SS uniform is nicely pressed today
[–]KRosen333 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
Oh boy. This won't be drama at all.
[–]ZombieHeyHeyHeyHeyOh 2 points3 points4 points  (1 child)
Where am I going to find motivation to lose weight now?
[–]Robert_T_Pooner 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
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.
[–]youareinthematrix 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
I predict this isn't going to go down well.
[–]Luxray 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
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.
[–]Libertarian-Party 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
I'm glad that the administration are finally removing /r/srs for their harassment of redditors
[–]saxindustries 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
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.
[–]cscottaxp 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
Why do people keep bringing up "free speech"? Are we talking about the US right? Or are we just talking about it in general? Because reddit banning subs has nothing to do with US federal laws.
[–]MarshallBanana 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
Well done. Very, very well done.
I do hope the people complaining in here make good on their threats to leave the site. It will be much better for it.
[–]imatree 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
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.
[–]hastdubutthurt 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
It's truly unbelievable to me the level to which reddit had bowed to political correctness.
[–]HomerSimpsonXronize 6 points7 points8 points  (0 children)
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.
[–]DrIcePhD 29 points30 points31 points  (1 child)
Which news report is forcing you to act this time?
[–]Cptfailboat104 -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
THBBBBBT.
[–]soulscratch 83 points84 points85 points  (11 children)
Talk about censorship...
[–]Crutypus 10 points11 points12 points  (1 child)
Exactly, the only thing wrong about /r/fatpeoplehate was that it was against reddit's goal to look like an intelligent website. This is a sad day for reddit.
[–]Darko33 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
I think when shit started going down like them swiping a photo from a first-time poster at /r/sewing and slapping it on their sidebar for ridicule, for example, a ban became inevitable. All they had to do was keep it in FPH, but they couldn't.
[–]zedoriah 65 points66 points67 points  (12 children)
Oh well, Reddit was a nice experiment while it lasted. Now it'll be tumblr style sjws and a lack of any actual meaningful discussions because anything else is "harassment". Enjoy the echo chamber.
[–]Magus10112 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
What's that, disagree with a popular opinion? You're harrassing the minority. Enjoy the ban.
If anyone thinks this won't be used to heavy-handedly construct the site to better fit the admins opinions they are down-right blind.
[–]Visualice 18 points19 points20 points  (0 children)
Someone hurt my feelings, better take down that subreddit.
[–]MarshallBanana 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
actual meaningful discussions
Yeah, that sounds like a perfectly accurate description of /r/fatpeoplehate, and not at all like massive butthurt.
[–]Admiralfox 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
Yup, everyone's feefees got hurt :(
[–]Cptfailboat104 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
You don't think places like FPH are echo chambers?
[–]cincyfan04 0 points1 point2 points  (1 child)
Oh well, Reddit was a nice experiment while it lasted.
I feel like this comment gets made every time an announcement is made. I'm not worried about it.
[–]zedoriah 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
And digg used to be a very important site too, but too many bad decisions can cause a mass exodus.
[–]sp0ck06 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Yeah there sure were a lot of meaningful discussions on fph.
[–]oBBKo 1 point2 points3 points  (2 children)
Well said. What now?
[–]CaptainXorro 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Voat.co
[–]zedoriah 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
http://voat.co isn't bad.
[–]Burial4TetThomYorke -1 points0 points1 point  (0 children)
Implying it wasn't an echo chamber before
[–]stctippr 52 points53 points54 points  (1 child)
Found the fatmin
[–]MeltedUFO 12 points13 points14 points  (0 children)
This thread is gonna be a shitshow.
[–]crylicylon 4 points5 points6 points  (1 child)
What were the other four?
[–]Visualice 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
They had to make up a number in order to make it look better.
[–]fatpeoplehatin 24 points25 points26 points  (4 children)
First imgur and now reddit? Talk about being butthurt...
[–]oBBKo 18 points19 points20 points  (3 children)
This is a pretext for other things, come on.
DOWN WITH CHAIRMAN PAO!!!
[–]I_LIKE_YOU_ 7 points8 points9 points  (0 children)
The popcorn gods smile upon us today.
[–]Dismantlement 10 points11 points12 points  (0 children)
Shit just hit the fan
[–]noeatnosleep 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
How about /r/coontown? Is that one OK?
[–]danielintheden 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
Thank you very much.
[–]Jesus_Faction 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
THIS SLOPE IS GETTING SLIPPERY BOYS
[–]splintersmaster 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
Fatpeoplehate.com is a thing, fyi.
[–]Lord_Purple_ 11 points12 points13 points  (2 children)
This is the begginning of the end, I feel. Hope I'm wrong.
[–]Jesusthrowaway123 19 points20 points21 points  (2 children)
Reddit hates free speech and will go through great lengths to censor. Is this what the internet will become?
[–]KevZero 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Nobody is taking away freedom of speech, just their own soapbox .
[–]Yiapparel 15 points16 points17 points  (0 children)
goodbye reddit.
[–]the_beard_guy 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
This is going to go over so well.
[–]skinnychick 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Bye reddit.
[–]Unoeye 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
What an inconvenience. Someone please let me know what the new /r/fatpeoplehate subreddit is when it's created.
[–]blocke92 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Fatties gonna fat I guess. It's okay, when they lose their feet due to the beetus, maybe then we will get the only non-racist, non-antifeminist, non-anti-Semitic sub back.
[–]Meezi 2 points3 points4 points  (0 children)
Un-fucking-believable, this is the most selective SJW bullshit I've ever seen.
[–]Trosso 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
You guys are a bunch of fuckwits seriously.
[–]Raysharp 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
For everyone who is wondering, these are the banned subreddits.
r/hamplanethatred (3071 subscribers)
r/neofag (1239)
credit to /u/ekjp
[–]MichaelPraetorius 0 points1 point2 points  (0 children)
Thank god. I'm super happy about this. What about /r/redpill
[–]Ganeshaha 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
ALL ABOARD THE VOAT BOAT CHOO CHOO
[–]AssuredlyAThrowAway 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
How long until /r/chairmanpao is banned?
This is bullshit.
[–]PawnStarRick 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Fat mods confirmed.
[–]siccoblue 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
ITT:A whole lot of complete assholes having a downvote party and crying their eyes out
[–]CommonWhiteGirl666 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
What about that one subreddit with pictures of dead fetuses? Or the one where people go to masturbate to dead women?
[–]TinyEarl 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
> we're banning behavior
> shitredditsays not banned
hmmmmmmmmm
[–]HawkeyeTransfer 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
I say we brigade SRS and SRD in protest until they get removed as well.
[–]conspiracy_thug 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)

REDDIT IS OPENLY PRACTICING CENSORSHIP.

ITS THE BEGINNING OF THE END, FOLKS.

[–]splintersmaster 5 points6 points7 points  (1 child)
This is ridiculous. There are subs that are much worse than fph. You've let me down reddit.
[–]Visualice 1 point2 points3 points  (0 children)
Yeah, everyone seems to be okay with FPH being taken down, but they're all for coontown, picsofdeadkids, picsofdeadfemales, etc. There's many more.
[–]ItsComrade 9 points10 points11 points  (0 children)
Ohhhhh shit. RIP admins
[–]ParaspriteHugger 5 points6 points7 points  (1 child)
I guess you're not publishing the list to avoid Streisand effect, right?
I understand that.
[–]ShowsAboutBees 11 points12 points13 points  (3 children)
Reddit's dead to me now.
[–]this____is_bananas 9 points10 points11 points  (0 children)
I guess this fits into Ellen's "we don't believe in free speech" motto.
[–]Czechmarks 4 points5 points6 points  (0 children)
Confirmed, reddit is run by fatasses
[–]ThrowawayShitlord777 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
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
[–]Deezbeet-u-z 5 points6 points7 points  (1 child)
Voat.co it is
[–]PrincessBuzzkill 3 points4 points5 points  (0 children)
grabs popcorn
[–]LuminiferousPen 5 points6 points7 points  (0 children)
Guess it's easier for you to ban FPH than lose some weight, eh?
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