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Reddit Removes Communities To Address Harassment, Users Respond

Posted by samzenpus on from the shields-up dept.

New submitter sethstorm writes: As a change to their community management, Reddit administrators have banned multiple communities (known as subreddits) in a bid to remove harassment. In response, users have responded in different ways — some have pointed out the bias of Reddit admins for leaving known harassers alone such as those in the "SRS" subreddit, others have attempted to re-create the banned subreddit "FatPeopleHate", and many have gone to overwhelm Voat (a competitor).

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  1. Re:Reddit.... by GrandCow · · Score: 1, Funny

    [citation needed]

    Seriously though, why do you need to keep yourself anonymous on a totally different site? Lets see the thread you were banned in so we can determine if you were drunkposting bullshit in a science subreddit or if you were actually right and got banned because circlejerking in a science area.

    Also, reddit has a bunch of autobans for really stupid things like doubleposting links. Have you actually contacted a mod and confirmed why you were banned?

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  2. Re:Routing around it. by Goaway · · Score: 4, Funny

    "It's other people's fault for being butthurt!"

    (Subreddit gets deleted)

    "HOW DARE YOU HOW DARE YOU MY BUTT IS HURTING SO MUCH YOU CAN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND"

    Yeah, rings a little bit hollow.