r/StopBeingEvil

A Redditor who frequents ChapoTrapHouse has been discovered to have some sort of suspension-immunity, despite proof delivered to Reddit admins that the user has a lengthy history of violent comments, both in ChapoTrapHouse and around Reddit.

One of the most blatant examples was the comment, "vote for Bernie or go die in a fire," which was published on Reddit over a month ago.

The admin Redtaboo was questioned about this and provided with numerous examples here:

The text of the inquiry is as follows:

It seems that reports of ChapoTrapHouse users promoting violence get lost in the void, as well.

Here is a comment from one particular user who repeatedly makes violent rule-breaking comments and wishes death on people: This user has been reported to you many times for violent comments. Here they are a month ago saying "vote for Bernie or die in a fire." - This was reported to you, and you said "thanks for reporting bla bla bla" and then you did literally nothing. This user is still active on Reddit. One can see they make violent comments wishing death on people almost every day, often in ChapoTrapHouse. You are receiving the reports and choosing to allow them to continue.

Here they are talking about "shoving white people into the ocean if necessary" They are still active on Reddit to this day.

Here they are threatening arson if Bernie doesn't win again And yet you won't suspend this person for repeatedly making violent comments, even after months of reports. Why is that? Is violence OK for left-wing Bernie suporters on this website? It seems to be. Here they are advocating for throwing Democrats into camps: - Would this comment be permitted if it was on the_Donald instead of far-left ChapoTrapHouse?

Here they are implying that they want to kill Democrats: Obviously this one is in a grey-area, because they say "why kill myself when there are so many Democrats still alive," but the implication here to any normal person is that they want to kill democrats. This is a person who Reddit admin have reviewed reports against them, and have decided they have not violated Reddit's policy. These are objectively violent comments, and there is a pattern of cavalier disregard for any civility or site-wide rules. Why is this OK on Reddit? You have literally received reports on many of this user's comments and acknowledged that you received them, and this user is still active today, with no intention of changing their behavior.

Here they are, talking about shooting cops: Keep in mind, this is a user you have explicitly declined to take action against. Here they are suggesting that we launch trump supporters "into the fucking sun":

Here they are saying we should put "capitalists" in concentration camps: The mods removed it, but you admins can see it. Funny how the mods didn't ban this user, either. Shouldn't you hold mods accountable for repeat-offenders that they don't ban?

Here they are advocating for killing people with guillotines:

These are all examples of comments this person has made after Reddit admins decided that this person was not breaking Reddit's rules. They were talking about killing non-Bernie voters in a fire a whole month ago, and my examples are just from the last 2 weeks.

I'd love an explanation as to why you've let this person continue to be so extremely violent almost every day, despite many reports. Can you comment on this?

Redtaboo's response was archived here:

As you can see, this admin acknowledges specifically that they have seen the rule-breaking comments. The user asking about the inconsistent policy-enforcement (or lack thereof) goes on to ask why their questions were not addressed, and why the user had still not been banned even after a Reddit administrator had admitted to seeing several examples. At this point, the admin Redtaboo becomes silent and refuses to discuss anything further.

You can see the admin begins to remove all further comments here without any acknowledgment or reply:

A follow-up question from the same user is quoted as follows:

You're telling me this comment - - wasn't reported to admins? This was over a month ago and the user is still making comments today. Why wasn't this user's account permanently suspended? Reddit users deserve to know why these same ChapoTrapHouse types frequently seem to be un-suspendable when their comment history is full of violent rhetoric. Please address this with me.

The comment was, of course, immediately removed and ignored by an administrator, despite raising very legitimate concerns about why admins are turning a blind-eye to certain individual users even after seeing their violent and hateful comments.

It is clear that Reddit admins such as Redtaboo are absolutely unwilling to enforce their "rules" evenly or consistently, and it becomes suspicious when the individuals they refuse to suspend or intervene with always seem to fit a particular political profile, such as this case here.

Navigating from the archived examples by clicking the rule-breaking Redditor's username, one can see that the user has stil not been suspended for any length of time, and is still commenting around the site unrestricted in any way. Many of the violent comments shown in these archived links have still not even been taken down.

A compilation of screenshots of the offender's comments can be seen here for quicker reference:

It is conclusive that Reddit admins use an arbitrary, subjective approach to enforcing the website's "rules," and that all their attempts to appear neutral and comitted to creating a website that promotes kindness and civility are simply a facade that serves to obscure their actual motives and biases when pushing the views they want to be seen on their website instead of a diverse, organic global conversation between genuine people.

Reddit's admins have a political agenda, and they are responsible for all commentary published on this website. There is no longer any reason to think they will allow dissenting opinions, comments, images or communities to thrive on their website even if their constantly-changing rules and demands are met. Those who deviate from their desired narrative will be removed under contrived, dishonest premises and those who promote the views they wish to be seen will be given nearly endless leniency to break their rules of conduct.

Reddit.com is a website that exists purely to sell advertisement views and host paid-for political propaganda from its investors.

Thanks for reading.