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Reddit Is Banning Users That Post Star Wars 7 Spoilers (softpedia.com)

Posted by timothy on from the spoiler-alert dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A few naughty users have started spamming Reddit with Star Wars 7 spoilers, but also hoaxes. Some known Star Wars fans with Reddit accounts were even bombarded with PMs about the upcoming film, with trolls trying to ruin the movie before they saw it. As a result, Reddit is now banning any user that posts Star Wars 7 spoilers. The movie officially launches tomorrow; do you plan to see it? Do you care about spoilers?

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  1. What about me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, how about people who like other movies and don't like getting spoilers?
    Or is this a Star Wars Master Race thing where everyone else are second class citizens that doesn't deserve protection?

    1. Re: What about me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Reddit is shameless about who they take bribes from.

    2. Re:What about me? by c · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Encountering new narratives is one of narrative's fundamental pleasures.

      Then there's Hollywood, which prefers to substitute explosions for new and novel narrative.

      --
      Log in or piss off.
    3. Re:What about me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Reddit is not banning anybody.
      The mods of the general movies sub-reddit are banning people who post them in the area they control. The PSA linked in the summary tells people to avoid certain other sub-reddits where the spoilers are also being posted.

      Or is this a Star Wars Master Race thing where everyone else are second class citizens that doesn't deserve protection?

      Goood, gooooood, let the Butthurt flow through you.

  2. Meh. by waspleg · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The movie officially launches tomorrow; do you plan to see it? Do you care about spoilers?

    No. No. Who wants to pack in like that anyway? If I go at all it'll be at an off hour hopefully long after the crowds have dwindled. If it's another Lens Flare the Final Frontier movie I won't have any interest anyway.

    J.J. Abrams isn't terrible but he is all about fan service and playing it safe so I don't expect much in the way of interesting. I'm sure Disney wants their money's worth.

    1. Re:Meh. by aaaaaaargh! · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I was planning to watch it, but the aggressive marketing has really put me off. I'll probably skip this one or watch it much later.

      The same thing happened for me with the Hobbit movies and Fallout 4. I have no problem with normal amounts of advertising, but too much is just too much.

  3. Re:Let's see where Voat comes down on this. by RogueyWon · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not really a freedom of speech issue, surely? Reddit is a privately owned and operated forum and it's entirely up to them which users they want to ban and which posts they want to delete.

    Now if we got the point where Reddit was so omnipresent in modern life that it was impossible to find a job or take out a mortgage or order a pizza without being on Reddit, I might start to get concerned.

    But it isn't. It's a fairly daft forum filled with a lot of people who mostly talk crap (so entirely different from Slashdot, of course). Being banned from it will not ruin your life. You want to post there, you follow their rules.

    It does raise questions about how best to moderate a large forum. But not about freedom of speech.