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Reddit Removes Communities To Address Harassment, Users Respond
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).
Getting Shadow Banned means that no one can see your posts except for the logged in user that posted them. In effect it's a particularly devious and underhanded way of censoring posts. Usually carried out by some immature moderator that don't agree with you.
I was shadow banned from a science related subeddit that is my professional field (40 years) and whose main posters I would bet a large sum of money couldn't pass a high school science class. I never posted anything unprofessional, but generally unpopular. I didn't really care, just stopped visiting a few months ago, wasn't getting anything out of it I didn't already know and people were more interested in personality cults than anything else.
You think MRA communities are harassers? Hoo boy, never go to srs or any place where the term 'SJW' originated. I've seen so-called progressives give personal information to potential sexual harassers out of spite, I've seen people call in fake bites to get dogs put to sleep out of spite. Death threats, doxxing, getting people fired over lies, harassing family members, it goes on. Or maybe you're familiar, and just refuse to see it; do you think 'no bad tactics, only bad targets?' Do you think there is some righteous end that excuses terrible means?