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Removing harassing search 0 subreddits (self.announcements) this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2015 submitted 15 hours ago * by reddit [A] x25 0 points (50% upvoted) Today we are announcing a shortlink: http://redd.it/39bpam change in community
management on reddit. username password Our goal is to enable as many people as possible to remember me reset password login have authentic conversations and share Submissions restricted ideas and content on an submission in this subreddit is restricted to approved open platform. We want as submitters. little involvement as possible in managing announcements these interactions but will subscribe 8,695,346 readers be involved when needed 4,844 users here now to protect privacy and free The most important Items from blog.reddit.com will be expression, and to prevent posted here (mainly, functionality changes). See also /r/blog. harassment. created by raldi a community for 5 years It is not easy to balance these values, especially as the Internet evolves. We are learning and hopefully improving as we move forward. We want to be open about our involvement: We will ban subreddits that allow their communities to use the subreddit as a platform to harass individuals when moderators don’t take action. We’re banning discuss this ad on reddit behavior, not ideas.
Today we are removing five MODERATORS message the moderators subreddits that break our spladug reddit rules based on their bsimpson rram harassment of individuals. notenoughcharacters9 If a subreddit has been about moderation team » banned for harassment, you will see that in the ban < > discussions in /r/announcements X notice. The only banned 2480 points · 4980 comments subreddit with more than Transparency is important to us, and today, we 5,000 subscribers is take another step forward. r/fatpeoplehate. To report a subreddit for harassment, please email us at [email protected] or send a modmail. We are continuing to add to our team to manage community issues, and we are making incremental changes over time. We want to make sure that the changes are working as intended and that we are incorporating your feedback when possible. Ultimately, we hope to have less involvement, but right now, we know we need to do better and to do more. While we do not always agree with the content and views expressed on the site, we do protect the right of people to express their views and encourage actual conversations according to the rules of reddit. Thanks for working with us. Please keep the feedback coming. – Jessica (/u/5days), Ellen (/u/ekjp), Alexis (/u/kn0thing) & the rest of team reddit edit to include some faq's The list of subreddits that were banned. Harassment vs. brigading. What about other subreddits?
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[–] Thecandymaker 1069 points 9 hours ago So this is what happens after the button stops.
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[–] coolman50544 247 points 5 hours ago even in our darkest times we are deliciously meta
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[–] RZgamer 587 points 10 hours ago* FYI, this is now the 11 12 7 4 5 13 20 9 7 4 6 20 9 4th most controversial post of all time (according to Reddit's algorithm). Edit: God damn, just pick a spot and stay there Edit 2: Am sleeping now, will update in the morning.
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[–] classic__schmosby 134 points 4 hours ago 11 12 7 4 5 13 20th most controversial post It's controversial how controversial this post is.
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[–] Table_Corner 149 points 8 hours ago* So it appears that the reddit admins have now shadow banned all of the former FPH mods as well. /u/The_Wizard_Of_Wang /u/12_Years_A_Toucan /u/SportyStrawberry These are just some of the former mods that I could find.
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[–] Raysharp 2065 points 14 hours ago* For everyone who is wondering, these are the banned subreddits. /r/fatpeoplehate(150k+) /r/hamplanethatred (3071) /r/transfags (149) /r/neofag (1239) /r/shitniggerssay (219) credit to /u/ekjp Edit: added fatpeoplehate. Thanks /u/The_White_Baron, I didn't think to originally. Good call. edit 2: I only posted this because at the time (about ten minutes after original post) they didn't have the link to the list on the post. Feel free to ignore as this is no longer relevant. edit 3: I should point out that the 150k+ number is a claim from another user. I took his word, but I didn't ever visit the sub myself and therefore have no reliable way of telling you the real number they had. edit 4: added fatpersonhate edit 5: removed fatpersonhate. It was already banned. edit 6: I'm no longer going to edit this comment with updates on the subsequent subreddit bans. Anyone who wants to raise awareness on more bans should feel free to comment on their own. Have a great day everyone!
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[–] oodni 602 points 13 hours ago Went to click on neofag to see what it was about. 404'd then doh'd. Ofcourse it wont work. Lol
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[–] 2birds1bone 374 points 13 hours ago It was a sub dedicated to making fun of members of a gaming forum called NeoGAF.
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[–] buttforaface 140 points 13 hours ago What I wanna know is, what the hell was hamplanethatred?
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[–] A _Mouse_In_Da_House 341 points 13 hours ago Ham planet = holy shit you're fat
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[–] HireA LLTheThings 336 points 13 hours ago Alternatively, a soft planetary body made of delicious cured pork.
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[–] youareinthematrix 4469 points 15 hours ago I predict this isn't going to go down well.
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[–] FancyRaw 433 points 14 hours ago Fuck this, we'll make our own reddit, with blackjack and hookers.
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[–] Tylenol_Creator 1313 points 6 hours ago What you just did: http://i.imgur.com/ZQHN2gS.png
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[–] icanhasreclaims 211 points 3 hours ago There's merit in keeping the masses of a bigoted community segregated in a way that allows open discussion. With this new decision, the backlash will be in the form of a vehement spillover into the subreddits that were once able to defend against trolling. Reddit cannot quantify how strong the retaliation issue will become and the man-hours needed to resolve those issues. I mentioned this in response to another comment on this thread, and your infographic paints the picture very well.
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[–] henkile 359 points 10 hours ago What happend to this? "Reddit's general manager Erik Martin noted that 'having to stomach occasional troll reddits like /r/picsofdeadkids or morally questionable reddits like /r/jailbait are part of the price of free speech on a site like this,' and that it is not Reddit's place to censor its users"
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[–] dakta 105 points 9 hours ago Erik has moved on from Reddit.
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[–] sumoisnotfat18 925 points 7 hours ago /r/skinnypeoplehate isn't banned. Talk about double standards.
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[–] eazyekiel 111 points 3 hours ago Guess us skinny folk should just feel privileged and take shaming as a compliment. /s
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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_MICROWA V E 1053 points 8 hours ago As a Jets fan, I want /r/Patriots banned for harassing and assaulting my team 2 times a season for the last 10+ fucking years.
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[–] Formaldehyd3 115 points 4 hours ago Hey, on that note... Can we ban /r/losangeleskings? Their Stanley Cups are triggering all of us at /r/SanJoseSharks
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[–] SilvanestitheErudite 4993 points 15 hours ago x2 Is there going to be transparency as to how subreddits are determined to be harrasing?
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[–] 80lbsdown 2351 points 14 hours ago* There is a subreddit called /r/SlutJustice that just links to various /r/relationships posts and encourages brigading of users they decide are "slutty." I'm all for stopping harassment, but let's not pretend that /r/fatpeoplehate is the worst of reddit. Edit: Here is a link to a thread where a woman attempts to defend herself after her post gets brigaded by people declaring her a slut.
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[–] Herp_McDerp 4487 points 14 hours ago x2 Whichever group is the loudest will get their way
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[–] WEIGHED 3536 points 13 hours ago x2 Too bad the girls over in /r/CuteFemaleCorpses can't shout as loud as fat people...
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[–] beard_the_fuck_up 2433 points 12 hours ago* /r/CuteFemaleCorpses or literally any of the subreddits in their sidebar. /r/sexyabortions /r/watchpeopledie /r/Deformed /r/rapingwomen /r/killingwomen (fantasy) /r/beatingwomen2 /r/picsofdeadkids /r/ladybonersgonegory /r/HurtingAnimals /r/BurningKids /r/HurtKids /r/killingboys new! Edit: not my personal opinions, just the sidebar of /r/CuteFemaleCorpses. WPD is a subreddit I have been to before. It does not harass anyone. Edit 2: Again, i'm not saying these should be banned. What I'm saying is the admins of reddit think making fun of fat people (or at least being satirical about it) is worse than raping dead corpses, killing women, burning kids, hurting animals, and watching people die.
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[–] Sandflapjack 1733 points 11 hours ago ah yes a list of subs that will forever stay blue
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[–] modd25 99 points 9 hours ago Beatingwomen2???? What the fuck happened to 1? And why was a sequel needed
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[–] hashtagsweg 176 points 9 hours ago This time it's personal
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[–] Sigg3net 121 points 10 hours ago On my phone's dark screen I thought one of them was /r/piesofducks. I was wrong.
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[–] 0b3r0n 38 points 10 hours ago Why are these even real?
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[–] NewSomalia 158 points 11 hours ago http://www.reddit.com/r/fatniggerhate
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[–] xfyre101 161 points 11 hours ago a hybrid of the best
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[–] WA HNSiNNiCK 710 points 12 hours ago WHAT! THE! FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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[–] GoonerPete 1342 points 12 hours ago I think Notch hit it right on the head https://twitter.com/notch/status/608706518972788736
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[–] TweetsInCommentsBot 953 points 12 hours ago @notch 2015-06-10 18:45 UTC I'm overweight and was frequently offended by FPH on Reddit, so I blocked it. It being banned is ridiculous.
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[–] Kardest 336 points 7 hours ago I was reminded of this quote. There are two knobs on the radio! One of them turns the radio OFF, and the other one changes the station. It's called freedom of choice, and it's one of the principles this country was founded upon. Look it up in the library, reverend, if you have any of them left when you've finished burning all the books. -George Carlin Censorship is never the right response to haters and idiots. It just makes them scream louder.
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[–] TotesMessenger 1969 points 15 hours ago* I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit: [/r/316cats] MAX ISN'T FAT, HE'S FLUFFY ... very very fluffy. [/r/adminhate] "Removing harassing subreddits", the post that inspired this sub [/r/againstfatpeople] Fucking Ham Admins [/r/againsthatesubreddits] Good news - Reddit admins remove a number of harassing hate subreddits, including /r/FatPeopleHate. Nothing of value was lost. [/r/anarcho_capitalism] "Removing harassing subreddits" [/r/antipozi] The Shoah is coming, it was fun shitposting with you guys.14/88 [/r/apocalypsewatch] /r/fatpeoplehate and several other communities banned. It is the end of the world. [/r/bannination] Advertisers don't like that shit. [/r/brasil] Administradores começam a banir subs em violação das novas regras anti-harassment do reddit. [/r/cadenmorandiary] Hey guys if you see this check out my subreddit I'll even let you be a mod [/r/censorship] Reddit increases censorship [/r/circlebroke] We did it Reddit! /r/fatpeoplehate has been banned! [/r/circlebroke2] Reddit announces that it will be removing harrassing subreddits, including FPH [/r/circlefuckers] RETARDED CRIMINAL CUNT PAO AND HE CUCK SQUAD ARE BANNING SUBS THAT HURT THEIR FATTY FEELINGS [/r/coyotes] When do we report r/hockey? [META] (kidding of course) [/r/cringeanarchy] I guess we're gonna be next, goodby everybody! At least it was fun while it lasted. [/r/drama] Admins just banned harrassment subreddits. FPH included. [/r/ellenpaofanclub] Thank you bb <3 [/r/fatniggerhate] /r/fatpeoplehate goes down [/r/fatpeoplehate2] B T F O [/r/fatpeoplehatehate] /r/fatpeoeplehate has been banned! [/r/fatpeopleloathing] Obese admins get mad at the internet [/r/francelibre] Removing harassing subreddits : announcements (pitaiiiin) [/r/freespeech] Reddit increases censorship [/r/freetalklive] Reddit Liberty Threat Warning: Yellow Alert [/r/girlgamers] One more step to a safer place: Reddit banning harassing subreddits. [/r/gulag] Majority of this thread for hatred and Freeze Peaches. [/r/ireland] Harassing subs get banned, what's /r/Ireland s opinion? [/r/jailu] Les admins franchissent le Rubicon de la censure et bannissent, entre autres, /r/fatpeoplehate [/r/lager] Wer das liest kommt ins Lager! [/r/mensrights] Will Men's Rights Be Next? [/r/metacancersubdrama] Chairman Pao is destroying Reddit today. So long FatPeopleHate. [/r/moviescirclejerk] Announcement: the Nazi skeletons in charge of Reddit banned /r/melissamccarthyhate today [/r/neofag2] Neofag Banned [/r/opieandanthony] Reddit starts new Great Purge of "harassing" subreddits. How long before this subreddit gets the axe? [/r/oppression] The admins have begun to purge all offensive subreddits [/r/rapingmurderers] ADMINS = FATMINS [/r/rapingmurderers] JUST [/r/realtech] Removing harassing subreddits [/r/redditcensorship] The Reddit Purge Begins: Removing harassing subreddits [/r/sammyclassicsonicfan] Should we worry about this? [/r/shitlordlounge] Come to /r/ShitlordLounge! (Thanks TotesMessenger for the free advertising!) [/r/shitredditsays] [META] The cabal scores a major victory as FatPeopleHate and other harassing subs are banned! [/r/short] /r/fatpeoplehate has been banned from reddit. /r/coontown is still here. Does anyone still doubt me when I say that the Fat Acceptance Movement has gained an EXTREME amount of power, while heightism is celebrated in our culture? This is absurd. [/r/subredditcancer] Cancer enters the terminal phase: admins announce the end of "harassing subreddits" [/r/subredditdrama] 5 subreddits, including /r/fatpeoplehate, have been banned for being "harassing". Ladies and gents, prepare to butter thine popcorn. [/r/technology] Official Reddit Blog: Removing harassing subreddits [/r/technology] Reddit begins enforcing anti-harassment rules. Subreddits including the infamous r/fatpeoplehate have been banned [/r/technology] Removing harassing subreddits [/r/thepopcornstand] The admins are now banning harassing subreddits. The butter shall flow. [/r/twistedfaggotry] I wonder if I can get free karma [/r/twistedfaggotry] I wonder if people will like my shitposting sub [/r/worstof] Chairman Pao begins the purge of subreddits against harassment, doesn't delete /r/coontown If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads. (Info / Contact)
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[–] shinydragonite 1639 points 14 hours ago Better call wifebot, you're gonna be working overtime tonight, Totes.
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[–] Sento_Fernner 359 points 11 hours ago That is the largest Totes post I've ever seen.
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[–] justcool393 44 points 11 hours ago I think I'm going to have to make it so it takes up less room if there are a lot of subreddits.
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[–] Sento_Fernner 99 points 11 hours ago Honestly, in this case, I enjoy it taking up a whole screen. Adds a bit of gravity to the situation. As per normal use, I completely agree.
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[–] Georgy_K_Zhukov 653 points 13 hours ago Are you ok there Totes? I hope they pay you overtime.
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[–] TotesMessenger 1062 points 12 hours ago I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit: [/r/botsrights] /u/Georgy_K_Zhukov Agrees that Totes should be payed overtime. If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads. (Info / Contact)
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[–] Spinnor 420 points 10 hours ago How deliciously meta
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[–] justcool393 298 points 11 hours ago [TotesMessenger mod, speaking officially] We do pay him overtime. Benefits are always included and we believe that bots rights are very important in this day and age. :D
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[–] TotesMessenger 297 points 13 hours ago* I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit: [/r/00000000000000000000] Hello, please send bitcoin to 1Fe9YYV83ugprpLj8vqF3uNPJTvL1o7JvY [/r/bestof] /u/TotesMessenger works overtime on the admin's latest SJW grandstanding [/r/bestof] Bot working overtime after the most recent announcement. [/r/test] Using this post to test TotesMessenger. If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads. (Info / Contact)
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[–] BeakerandBunsen 102 points 12 hours ago meta
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[–] A pathie2 356 points 14 hours ago r/fatpeoplehate2 That didn't take long
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[–] zang227 411 points 14 hours ago* a community for 1 year Yeah Edit for clarification: I'm simply pointing out that the subreddit was already created, and that it didn't just pop up.
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[–] Dillstroyer 125 points 14 hours ago Jesus Christ, this is going down in Reddit history.
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[–] pickle-in-a-cup 832 points 10 hours ago "to protect privacy and free expression" ayyy lmao
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[–] newtothelyte 1248 points 12 hours ago Silly admins. Don't you understand your userbase? You really think you're going to stop those people from having their sub? Now you've turned them against you and you've pissed them off. Now they will stop at nothing to have their message heard. There are now over 10 subs dedicated to fat people hate
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[–] duffman489585 341 points 10 hours ago The idea is to monetize reddit into an unoffensive cash cow for native advertisers. It's been a steady march this direction. Ideals vs. big money is a hard fucking fight.
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[–] Icemasta 62 points 6 hours ago It's just the usual cycle. It was Digg, Digg was cool, then Digg 3.0 came and wasn't that great, but people stayed and it survived. Then Digg 4.0, which was targeted at advertising/marketing, and boom went the dynamite and everyone and their dogs left for Reddit. I was never a huge fan of digg, so I was on reddit mostly, and let's just say the influx changed things a lot, for better and worse. So right now we're on the Reddit 3.0 phase, and when Reddit 4.0 hit, which should be within the next year at the pace of changes we're getting, reddit will be wrapped and ready for sale, and we'll all be jumping ship AGAIN. Every time a company things they know better about how their userbase should interact, you get people riled up, but we've be educated to be docile, so we support until we get pissed off. We're nearing that tipping edge of multiple social news site popping up to compete with Reddit and taking good chunks of the population. https://www.google.ca/trends/explore#q=reddit%20alternative Google trend for those interested.
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[–] TinyEarl 1329 points 14 hours ago* > we're banning behavior > shitredditsays not banned hmmmmmmmmm edit: this comment tracking FPH-related bans was just removed by the mods, and the user that posted it has been soft-banned from this sub (all their comments in this sub get spam filtered, but they don't get a ban notification).
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[–] atred 133 points 11 hours ago behavior we don't like
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[–] A rtGamer 136 points 13 hours ago definitely not biased
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[–] TheSilence13 908 points 13 hours ago 7k+ comments with a 0 score. THAT SHOULD TELL YOU SOMETHING
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[–] serialstitcher 2214 points 14 hours ago 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?
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[–] Ungreat 342 points 13 hours ago What does "safe space" even mean? Probably cutting out the weird and nasty to make the site palatable to advertisers. Problem is the weird and nasty is a large part of this site.
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[–] restatic 237 points 11 hours ago Safe space means a safe space for advertising, not people.
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[–] Jesus_Faction 1439 points 15 hours ago THIS SLOPE IS GETTING SLIPPERY BOYS
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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_TIBBIES 270 points 10 hours ago Don't call her a slope.
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[–] xXNuclearTacoXx 1268 points 13 hours ago* x2 Turn on your adblock and stop buying gold. Edit: I have never recieved gold.. never wanted gold. Really?
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[–] duffman489585 219 points 10 hours ago Or move to voat whenever they get new servers to handle the reddit ship jump of death.
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[–] ExplodingJesus 2254 points 14 hours ago 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.
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[–] SemiNation 1098 points 14 hours ago Please keep the feedback coming Why should we, you clearly have your own agenda and don't care about all the feedback you're being given so far.
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[–] TheCyberGlitch 39 points 3 hours ago Seriously, since this "safe space" crap started, wildly upvoted posts have anticipated the banning of /r/fatpeoplehate and the free pass to SRS, all of them very critical of this form of censorship and the dark path it'll lead Reddit down to. Even many people who despise fatpeoplehate don't want it censored like this (I'm no big fan of the sub myself). Here's what people have been STRONGLY SUGGESTING for months: a clear objective definition of brigading a clear objective definition of harassment a fair application of the rules across all subreddits more reserved use of shadowbans, which are better suited for spam bots more transparency, with especially with banning and deleting of comments, users, and apparently subreddits no fucking censorship But hey, those just seem to be what the majority of Reddit users want. It's clear the current heads of Reddit don't give a damn about what we say.
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[–] DrZack 1806 points 13 hours ago* x4 "Front page of the internet" campaigning against internet censorship while simultaneously banning subreddits that offend you. SHAME ON YOU. If you find a subreddit offensive, don't go on it. I didn't like the subreddit, but that's no reason to ban it. Thought about buying gold/turning off adblock to support reddit but no more. I vote with my $$ and reddit does not get my vote. Honestly, fuck you mods EDIT: And don't buy me fucking gold and make sure to turn on adblock. I can only hope that the number of people turning on adblock because of this post loses reddit more money than the gold I got today. Good riddance
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[–] toomuchcringe 215 points 9 hours ago Thanks for the reminder to turn adblock back on. Forgot about that.
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[–] rhycochet 177 points 9 hours ago* oh cool, you just banned /r/fatpersonhate too! i thought you were all up on that horse claiming to ban for "behavior" and NOT "ideas." /r/fatpersonhate is SO NEW that there's no way for any "behavior" to even qualify as bannable offense. you banned it because it carries the same IDEA as /r/fatpeoplehate. please take the lies and shove it up a fold. or two.
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[–] luciferoverlondon 359 points 12 hours ago Ellen Pao needs to go have a little chat with Kevin Rose, and see how well doing shit like this worked out for Digg.
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[–] LuminiferousPen 1782 points 14 hours ago All hail glorious leader Ellen Pao!
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[–] megadog14 1080 points 13 hours ago Never forget
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[–] UnderwoodF 242 points 10 hours ago I would buy you gold but I'd rather not pay their salaries.
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[–] caribou16 1765 points 13 hours ago x3 Just canceled my reoccurring gold membership.
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[–] XT3015 614 points 12 hours ago* I like how you got gold for that. (But seriously, I think Reddit has run it's course) edit: xfiles theme song
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[–] MacHaggis 227 points 12 hours ago "cancelling your subscription? YOU WILL HAVE GOLD, LIKE IT OR NOT."
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[–] artscii 689 points 13 hours ago* Soooo... /r/Fitness will probably be next?
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[–] skyshadow42 186 points 12 hours ago Check your privilege and all that.
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[–] A ustNerevar 1262 points 13 hours ago /r/neofag was a non-brigading, non-harassment sub that focused on the anti-GamerGate site Neogaf. It had absolutely no reason to be banned, yet garbage like shitredditsays and subredditdrama remain. I'm getting so sick of this biased, safe-space bullshit. I have no sympathy for the users of /r/fatpeoplehate, but I don't believe in censorship. You guys aren't even trying to hide it now...if you go to the FPH subreddit, it says it's been removed to "keep people safe". I can assure you that no subreddit has ever made me feel unsafe, even when I've people pestering me inbox messages I didn't want. What happened to the Reddit that supported the blacklisting of SOPA? I guess you guys sold out. www.voat.co
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[–] testtheid 71 points 9 hours ago I think voat.co is getting hugged to death right now. Today is the best thing that ever happened to them.
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[–] 1sttimepleasebgentle 1328 points 14 hours ago This is the beginning of the end of Reddit, ladies and gentlemen.
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[–] SlimNinja 316 points 13 hours ago https://voat.co/
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[–] ttifiblog 2749 points 14 hours ago* 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? edit: Please don't buy gold. In fact, no one should buy gold until Pao is gone. https://www.change.org/p/ellen-k-pao-step-down-as-ceo-of-reddit-inc
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[–] Baked_Otter 727 points 13 hours ago You have been made moderator of /u/FuckEllenPao
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[–] raedeon 935 points 12 hours ago Damn, becoming a moderator of a user?
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[–] Baked_Otter 172 points 11 hours ago Whoops. Oh well, I guess s/he has that much power.
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[–] rubsomebacononitnow 147 points 12 hours ago Turns out violentacrez was right... once they started banning they'd find out they liked it and do it more.
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[–] TheGhostofWoodyA llen 35 points 9 hours ago God how that flaming pile of shit was right. At the time I thought it was a bad sign. All I could think was how, despite his abhorrent interests, he was a well-regarded moderator who helped mod some of the largest and most trafficked subreddits while championing the free speech spirit of early reddit. He was the embodiment of that whole "Well, I don't agree with them but I respect their right to express themselves so long as laws are not violated." And now here we are today. Interesting stuff.
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[–] Rickykrudd 318 points 10 hours ago* /r/BeatingTrannies, /r/RapingWomen, /r/PhilosophyOfRape, /r/StruggleFucking, /r/AbusePorn2, /r/AntiPOZi, /r/SlutJustice, /r/CoonTown, /r/CuteFemaleCorpses, /r/SexWithDogs, /r/SexWithHorses, /r/CandidFashionPolice, /r/GreatApes, /r/NecroPorn, /r/DeepThroatTears, /r/Painal, All of these subreddits exist at this very moment, and you ban fph "for our safety". Hilarious
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[–] Samantha-Shepard 49 points 5 hours ago I feel like /r/strugglefucking, /r/deepthroattears, and /r/painal are more or less staged and meant for fantasies. The others, however, not so much.
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[–] RTE2FM 2384 points 14 hours ago x2 www.voat.co
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[–] remzem 583 points 14 hours ago Looks like their traffic increased so much after this announcement that their site is down hah
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[–] 6ThirtyFeb7th2036 675 points 13 hours ago Exactly what happened to Reddit after Digg changed their business model to "utter shit".
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[–] shows7 195 points 12 hours ago Voat is Digg 3 confirmed.
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[–] well_golly 490 points 12 hours ago Damn. Ellen Pao will be remembered for the collapse of Reddit, and she won't even score any points for originality because it's all been done before. Which brings me to the real question: Will Ellen Pao even be remembered at all?
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[–] [deleted] 66 points 10 hours ago Don't worry about that, she'll be immortalized in the public record after her bankruptcy hearing
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[–] TheTV TropesGuy 18 points 9 hours ago The fat bitch who killed the website I used to like. Oh look, harassment better ban announcements
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[–] yeahburyme 633 points 14 hours ago /r/redditalternatives for more. Voat is by far the most popular.
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[–] mypylons 652 points 13 hours ago Prediction: /r/redditalternatives banned because it harasses reddit :<
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[–] ultraRightWing 555 points 14 hours ago Guess it is time for everyone to move to voat.co.
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[–] Rebootkid 2505 points 13 hours ago As much as I dislike the content in FPH, I dislike censorship MUCH more. FPH was supposedly banned for violating the reddit rule of "Keeping everyone safe." That rule says, "You agree to not intentionally jeopardize the health and safety of others or yourself." You're going to need to explain exactly how they were violating that rule, because I saw none of it happening. The people who were discussed are jeopardizing their own health and safety. This is censorship plain and simple.
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[–] upboatsallaround 767 points 12 hours ago "You agree to not intentionally jeopardize the health and safety of others or yourself." Sounds like they should ban /r/HAES or /r/thinspo if that's their true goal.
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[–] Theoreticalwriter 84 points 11 hours ago or /r/immobile
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[–] DoctorThackery 56 points 8 hours ago lol "On this subreddit there is no such thing as 'too big'. The bigger the better, no matter how big that is. There is, however, such a thing as too small. 325lbs (technical minimum weight for SSBBW/BHM) is an acceptable minimum, but we are keeping the 450lb desired minimum in place..."
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[–] BlueLinchpin 1711 points 14 hours ago You guys are a joke.
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[–] kaztrator 593 points 12 hours ago Hey, that's harassment! You better stop or /r/announcements will get banned!
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[–] duffman489585 147 points 10 hours ago I would also like /r/announcements banned. I'm so triggered right now.
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[–] lamabaronvonawesome 277 points 8 hours ago /r/cats has to go, I am from /r/dogs, also anything with peanut-butter in it. It kills kids.
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[–] flossdaily 4343 points 12 hours ago* x4 This was an incredibly bad business decision for the following reason: When you were not banning any subreddits, you could make the legal claim that you were an open, public forum, and that you were not liable for the user generated content on the site. Now, you've taken the step of actively censoring content. Therefore it can argued that ANY significant subreddit that you haven't banned is operating with your knowledge, approval, and cooperation. So you shut down a subreddit that hates on fat people, but you left up the overtly racist subreddits that made national headlines several months ago? Mashable, Gawker, Salon, Dailykos, The Independent, etc... are all major publications that over a span of months have called out reddit for allowing racist subreddits to thrive. Their arguments were all moot until today. This policy would have been a huge legal misstep even if handled appropriately. But this sloppy execution makes the responsible administrators look embarrassingly ignorant or incompetent at best, and overtly racist at worst.
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[–] cynoclast 1080 points 12 hours ago This was an incredibly stupid business decision for the following reason: Well, she has a history of those: “We come up with an offer that we think is fair,” Pao said. “If you want more equity, we’ll let you swap a little bit of your cash salary for equity, but we aren’t going to reward people who are better negotiators with more compensation.”
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[–] TLA TER 259 points 9 hours ago Wait... She's trying to promote gender equality by stating that women are inherently worse at arguing, and should be treated as such? Well, let's fire all women in high positions then, they can't do their job. How should a female CEO be able to handle negotiations with other companies when she can't argue?
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[–] tbk 447 points 11 hours ago Well that's a good way to keep anyone with experience from working at your company. So instead of training her staff to not discriminate based on gender she's just banning an incredibly common practice that ensures experienced prospective employees feel valued and respected.
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[–] h0bb1tm1ndtr1x 53 points 13 hours ago So Ellen Pao is projecting her view onto Reddit now that she failed in court? Awesome...
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[–] jwshyy 1575 points 14 hours ago By the same vein, /r/ShitRedditSays should be banned too
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[–] Ichigowins 686 points 14 hours ago Do you really think Ellen Pao would ruin the sub of the only people who support her?
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[–] jwshyy 168 points 13 hours ago Good point. The bias is very real.
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[–] peenoid 55 points 11 hours ago In the future Reddit will be SRSers and no one else, and all the SquiRrelS will chatter away and send their scoldings off into the nether, holding but never verbalizing the thought that it was actually better in the beforetime.
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[–] digitalpizza 2797 points 15 hours ago x2 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
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[–] Sheslion 758 points 14 hours ago r/trashy is pretty much fatpeoplehate with poor people and rednecks
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[–] theA mazingShitlord 345 points 13 hours ago Also there's /r/justneckbeardthings.
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[–] CryEagle 1028 points 14 hours ago FPH took blocking personal information much more seriously than /r/cringe
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[–] headmelt 43 points 12 hours ago They even had a bot that automatically removed links to other parts of Reddit to avoid brigading.
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[–] FilmMakingShitlord 100 points 12 hours ago Because they knew they were going to get banned for the stupidest thing, so they did everything they could to try to prevent it.
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[–] frankenmine 3436 points 14 hours ago /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?
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[–] altshiftM 502 points 14 hours ago Arent some former admins now moderators there? If so, then that would explain a few things.
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[–] akatherder 262 points 13 hours ago Top post right now implies they had a hand in bombing FPH so of course they won't be banned. "[META] The cabal scores a major victory as FatPeopleHate and other harassing subs are banned!" http://np.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays/comments/39bqyc/meta_the_cabal_scores_a_ major_victory_as/
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[–] njbrooks 1530 points 14 hours ago* 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. Edit: Okay, the door isn't "locked". I get the hatred spread even with the subreddit open. But I do not think removing the subreddit will solve anything. This goes for all the banned subreddits, not just FPH Thx for gold
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[–] really_cool_name 1967 points 15 hours ago 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 ?
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[–] Emazinng 4711 points 14 hours ago x7 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
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[–] voltism 478 points 15 hours ago Ban /r/announcements plz, you hurt my precious feelings
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[–] thezoomaster 545 points 13 hours ago For a website that's boasts about internet freedom and privacy so often, I'm fucking disgusted at this thinly veiled, blatant censorship. What the fuck? What happened to freedom of speech? You don't have to agree with /r/fatpeoplehate, but no one was shoving it down your throats. I'm fucking disappointed in you, admins.
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[–] Davethe3rd 101 points 10 hours ago No, the previous owner of reddit was a free-speech advocate. The new owners are not in the slightest.
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[–] nixonrichard 3099 points 14 hours ago 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.
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[–] KnightKrawler 648 points 14 hours ago FPH got banned because it kept hitting the front page, is my assumption.
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[–] imclone 808 points 13 hours ago It's almost like a lot of the reddit userbase liked the content
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[–] taws34 958 points 13 hours ago Funny, though, how the up and down vote buttons work... It was like more people agreed with the content than disagreed with it.. Weird.
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[–] V ilmond 127 points 12 hours ago How upvotes/downvotes work is actually a rather interesting topic. The reason subs like circlejerk, fph, politics, etc keep getting to the front page isn't because lots of people agree/disagree with the content. Instead its about time/early votes. Basically just a handful of early upvotes or downvotes will send a post spiraling into success of crashing into nothingness. This is why reddit vote bots and alternate accounts work so well. The first 5 upvotes count for more than the next 20+ downvotes that come a short time later. Not because upvotes are worth more or less, but because of the timing which gives early votes more sway/meaning. Then this system of giving earlier votes more sway is tied in with general psych which will have people simply follow the herd. This means those first few votes kicking it off leads to a giant inflation of votes that grow on eachother causing more votes. The end result is that it would take a rather organized group downvoting content to get it off the front few pages of r/all. Especially if they don't end up seeing it until hours after it was posted by then any downvote to it is more or less powerless thanks to the time weighting system in place. So things like r/circlejerk and similar echochamber subreddits are "very powerful" are making there voice heard on r/all. FPH was no different it had arguably the most tightly controlled user base of any subreddit that required sub'ing to post and all sorts of things along with a verification setup and so on. One of the main rules was "no dissent" this led to the generally snowbally voting setup mentioned above and having FPH content consistently hitting the front page. This is why subs like leagueoflegends, politics, etc tend not to hit the front page as often. Because there user base while large will disagree. They will go "oh its about X team, fuck them" and you will get immediate downvotes. "Oh it looks good for X political party, fuck them!" and boom early downvotes ahoy! By having a subreddit that by nature encourages more than one viewpoint you are less likely to snowball onto the front page, that doesn't mean its impossible (far from it) just less likely. Hopefully you learned something from this, maybed you don't give a shit and thats fine too. But the simple TLDR is that not all upvotes/downvotes are weighed equally and the setup gives "echo chambers" more power.
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[–] A mericanPsychonaut 922 points 14 hours ago* You hit the nail on the head. This is totally arbitrary and now admins have to ban subreddits that agree with the reddit community's views or they lose users. One problem, the community is so large and diverse that there is no consensus on what should stay or go. Every subreddit they deem is engaging in 'harassment' loses them a percentage of users. In a less PC way of saying this, I think they're total pussies for doing this and are bending over to external pressure from advertisers. Limp dick admins.
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[–] MrTwoJobs 68 points 14 hours ago I think this makes it easier for them to stop any Ellen Pao related subreddits in the future.
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[–] Cashews4U 347 points 12 hours ago* Literally one of the first rules of fatpeoplehate is "no linking to other subreddits." That sub keeps to its own and discourages and actively prevents brigading and any hint of attacking those from outside that sub. What stays in FPH stays in FPH. Total bullshit. But by all means lets keep the subs that are sexist, racist, downright disgusting and disturbing, ignorant, and so on. Nice job shitting the bed, admins. Edit: if a child does something wrong, do you punish the child or the parents? Its not FPH's fault that some of its people went rogue and decided to do things outside the guidelines.
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[–] dfsac85 433 points 15 hours ago I am glad you guys didn't delete /r/fuckolly . Because seriously, fuck that kid.
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[–] austin101123 150 points 14 hours ago Was fatpeoplehate invading other places, or was it contained? It seems as though /r/greatapes still exists. What made fatpeoplehate considered harassing vs. greatapes? What is the qualification for being considered harassing? I hope for more transparency on this.
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[–] muhtriggurs 2804 points 14 hours ago* 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. Edit: please don't gild me again. These fuckers at Reddit don't deserve one more fucking red cent. Take that cash and give it to a homeless person, a charity, or someone in need, k? :)
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[–] retnemmoc 108 points 11 hours ago You have been banned from r/Paoyongyang
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[–] closetshitlordette 614 points 13 hours ago I was a subscriber to FPH. Say what you want about me, but here's the deal: Unlike SRS's wink-nudge, totally insincere "no-brigade" policy, FPH's was legit. It's rules included a prohibition on linking to other parts of reddit (and such posts were automatically removed); including any personal information including person, username, or subreddit names in posts; and banning known brigaders. It regularly removed posts that broke any of these rules, and the mods routinely put up reminders not to brigade. It kept to itself. This decision is not only arbitrary but unfounded. FPH blatantly did not do the things it is being accused of (harassment) while subs that actively and openly do those things remain. This leaves me and--looking through the comments--much of the rest of the community feeling as if you've just slapped us in the face with capricious censorship with blatantly insincere justifications, when the real agenda was political in nature. And speaking of the real agenda, since it was political, what about all the other distasteful subs that not only harass but represent far more odious subject matter than FPH? Good job, mods: you've opened that door. Conclusion: this is bullshit and you know it.
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[–] A njz 211 points 13 hours ago* 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." What the fuck? This goes against what Reddit is about. If you start banning subreddits that you 'hate', then it will start being corporate and eventually corporations will say that they are being harassed and will be able to take down subreddits and ban users. What's next, are we gonna get banned for saying Ellen Pao is a bad CEO for going against her words? We may as well take a one way ticket to North Korea. This is the worst move Reddit has done, I'm terribly disappointed. As much as I resent people for having so much hate, this is a major impediment of free speech.
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[–] Wafflenotblue 312 points 14 hours ago* might as well ban /r/pcmasterrace because they harass console users peasants
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[–] MapleTreesPlease 24 points 10 hours ago Aaaand boom goes the dynamite.
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[–] Katynrosja 749 points 14 hours ago Why isn't /r/ShitRedditSays banned?
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[–] 3seashellsIknowHow 318 points 13 hours ago You mean Chairman Pao's Storm Troopers?
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[–] evancam 217 points 12 hours ago* /u/ekjp - if the Reddit community raises the money you need to pay your husbands' legal settlements resulting from his fraudulent financial activities, will you resign and leave us alone? Edit: I did actually go to college and take at least one English/writing class. Edit 2: I'm leaving it, messing up 'took' in this context makes me laugh.
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[–] ninjapro 796 points 14 hours ago* x2 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.
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[–] WouldYouBanA GayGuy 22 points 7 hours ago Can r/Announcements be next? I hear that they harass the rest of reddit by claiming the rest of reddit scares minorities away, thus damaging Reddit's image. Oh if it's banned can we also ban the whole admin team and Ellen for using their flaky definition of harassment to harass other subreddits? RedditRevolt FireRises If we burn Ellen, you burn with us.
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[–] A ssuredlyA ThrowA way 184 points 13 hours ago Lol. You had to sticky this thread because it got downvoted below the threshold. No one will ever see this announcement on the default front page or /r/all. Yo /u/kn0thing, do you really know nothing about how this site works?
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[–] Osairis 126 points 10 hours ago Congrats Overlord Pao, your actions just advertised a subreddit to your entire user base that they may not have been aware of AND you've hydra'd the hell out of it... what did you think would happen? FPH could have stayed its own little corner of Reddit... now r/ALL is effectively FPH... I, for one, welcome our Fat People Hating overlords...
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[–] Cricket620 62 points 13 hours ago ITT: Ellen Pao tries to justify selective banishment of subreddits without releasing criteria on why subreddits are being banned. It does not go well.
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[–] CrackheadControl 4181 points 15 hours ago Why is /r/fatpeoplehate banned, but /r/coontown get to exist? That's bullshit.
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[–] tichondrius 2314 points 15 hours ago Because making fun of fat people is worse than racism, I guess.
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[–] FrankFeTched 1253 points 14 hours ago 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?
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[–] Exemus 1373 points 15 hours ago I guess the admins are fat and white.
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[–] Yum_Kaax 967 points 14 hours ago All admins are fat and white.
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[–] pm_me_things_you_lov 734 points 15 hours ago* List of subreddits on the chopping block: /r/fatpeoplehate, /r/hamplanethatred, /r/transfags, /r/neofag, /r/shitniggerssay What about /r/coontown though? It's just straight up racism on /new all day long.
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[–] dragon_nipples 41 points 8 hours ago* Why did you ban /r/fatpersonhate it was just created... are you preemptively banning subs for harassment LOL.
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[–] Stalked_Like_Corn 3612 points 14 hours ago* x2 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 FLOUNTING* the rules of vote briggading. They bite their thumbs at you sir. Yet you continue to let it go on. Why? Edit* Fixed typo. Thanks /u/rocketman0739!
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[–] stolivodka_ 1161 points 14 hours ago Meanwhile /r/shitredditsays keeps chugging along Probably because all of the admins are subscribers.
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[–] Roark_Laughed 103 points 10 hours ago srs is straight up cancer on this site and the fact that it was ignored over the other banned subs is ridiculous.
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[–] ExplodingJesus 189 points 14 hours ago They bite their thumbs at you sir. This is like the first thing in this thread to not make me mad haha
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[–] n1b0t 114 points 13 hours ago yup, now they've banned the subreddit...which contained all of the hatred. Released a rabid dog into the wild, GJ admins.
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[–] deadfallpro 121 points 10 hours ago This is all about some two-faced bullshit. They elect Chairman Pao and the whole site goes to crap. What a joke.
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[–] 1010101010101010101 157 points 10 hours ago Slowly but surely reddit is turning into a SJW haven with the increasing censorship. but right now, we know we need to do better and to do more. Firing Ellen Pao would be a great start.
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[–] lordofthekeks 24 points 8 hours ago The first downfall was the censorship of gamergate. Employing her was one of the biggest mistakes, and i wouldn't be suprised if most of the people on various subs move to alternative sites w/ fewer restrictions such as this shithole.
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[–] icantbelieveiclicked 357 points 13 hours ago im fat... and the only thing i can think of is fuck you.. shit people are entitled to their opinion and if you dont like fatpeoplehate then dont fucking go there.. fat people hate i totally give you credit for getting me back to the gym after 4 years and about 20 uneaten cookies
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[–] beetnemesis 211 points 14 hours ago 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?
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[–] nsto 2794 points 15 hours ago Did /r/fatpeoplehate actually harass people outside of the subreddit?
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[–] Wbalmung 75 points 8 hours ago “When you cut out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” -Tyrion Lannister
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[–] KingOCarrotFlowers 158 points 14 hours ago If you're so concerned with preventing harassment that you're banning subreddits, you're either going to need to be seriously transparent with the rules ("these activities are okay" vs "these activities are not") or you're going to have to recognize that this is just going to end up as a popularity contest. We've established that /r/fatpeoplehate is wrong--what if I made a subreddit that filled the exact same function, but against white people? Thin people? The LGBT community? Straight people? What about /r/tumblrinaction, which is essentially hater hate? Or /r/facepalm, which is "people on my facebook feed who are acting stupid" hate? You have indicated that you're not okay with harassing subreddits, but you have failed to provide even the most vague definition of a harassing subreddit.
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[–] misinformed66 68 points 11 hours ago How is SRS, a subreddit found to be the most toxic subreddit by an outside source still here? SRS routinely brigades people, and harasses users and yet here it is. Still around.
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[–] 2muffins 97 points 14 hours ago The cancer is terminal. I give the site 1 year to live.
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[–] Robert_T_Pooner 313 points 15 hours ago* 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.
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[–] heyitsfred 77 points 14 hours ago The one that gets me is /r/neoFAG, yes, the name has an epithet, but other than that, they were just highlighting SJW posts on an external gaming forum. There are far worse subreddits in regards to harassment which are immune to this, especially within Reddit itself. Was this a test to see if they could get away with nuking /r/KotakuInAction and /r/TumblrInAction?
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[–] RedSocks157 881 points 14 hours ago* 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 that upset if these rules were being applied equally. The continued existence of SRS is a pretty clear indicator of that.
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[–] elerium2 70 points 10 hours ago So why isn't /r/ShitRedditSays/ banned? They are the most vile cesspool of hatred on reddit.
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[–] PIXEL_MA CHT_FREI 224 points 12 hours ago Turning back on AdBlock on reddit and never ever giving gold again.
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[–] walnut100 18 points 11 hours ago Our goal is to enable as many people as possible to have authentic conversations and share ideas and content on an open platform. Well obviously that isn't true
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[–] testtheid 18 points 9 hours ago Voat.co just got blown up. How long after Reddit's announcement did the voat servers get destroyed? Their IT people must have been like, "WTF just happened? What did Reddit do now?"
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[–] total_looser 19 points 8 hours ago this kills the reddit.com
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[–] itsjh 16 points 8 hours ago We’re banning behavior, not ideas. What a shockingly convenient excuse to leave /r/cutefemalecorpses et al open!
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[–] beassured 19 points 7 hours ago Enabling adblock again. It is my passive aggressive way of saying fuck you Reddit.
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[–] A mmoholic 36 points 7 hours ago /r/skinnypeoplehate ? I must be missing the premise of removing harassing subreddits.
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[–] 1sttimepleasebgentle 362 points 14 hours ago /r/fatpeoplehate2. About one year ago, you owe me $10.
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[–] Tackbracka 90 points 10 hours ago If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky
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[–] Kolisk 235 points 14 hours ago 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.
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[–] waterboysh 366 points 15 hours ago* 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"
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