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Reddit To Crack Down On Abuse By Punishing Hundreds of 'Toxic Users' (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Social media website Reddit, known for its commitment to free speech, will crack down on online harassment by banning or suspending users who target others, starting with those who have directed abuse at Chief Executive Steve Huffman. Huffman said in an interview with Reuters that Reddit's content policy prohibits harassment, but that it had not been adequately enforced. "Personal message harassment is the most cut and dry," he said. "Right now we are in an interesting position where my inbox is full of them, it's easy to start with me." As well as combing through Huffman's inbox, Reddit will monitor user reports, add greater filtering capacity, and take a more proactive role in policing its platform rather than relying on community moderators. Reddit said it had identified hundreds of the "most toxic users" and will warn, ban or suspend them. It also plans to increase staff on its "trust and safety" team. On Reddit, a channel supporting the U.S. Republican party's presidential candidate Donald Trump, called r/The_Donald, featured racist and misogynistic comments, fake news and conspiracy theories about his Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton, along with more mainstream expressions of support for Trump. Many of those supporting Trump were very active, voting up the r/The_Donald conversations so that they became prominent across Reddit, which is the 7th-most-visited U.S. internet site, according to web data firm Alexa. Last week, Reddit banned Pizzagate, a community devoted to a conspiracy theory, with no evidence to back it up, that links Clinton to a pedophile ring at a Washington, D.C. pizza parlor, after it posted personal information in violation of Reddit policy. Huffman then used his administrative privileges to redirect abuse he was receiving on a thread on r/The_Donald to the community's moderators -- making it look as if it was intended for them. Huffman said it was a prank, and that many Reddit users, including some Trump supporters, told him they thought it was funny, but it inflamed the situation.
Or the fucking pricks can form their own sites. Of course fucking pricks don't have nearly as much fun harassing each other as they do harassing people who don't want to be harassed.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I'm sure 4chan will overtake Reddit any day now. Oh, sorry, it's 8chan now because apparently even 4chan isn't tolerant enough of abuse.
Face it, apart from a few butthurt free speech warriors most users regard being able to use Reddit without being harassed as a positive improvement.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
How can it be determined that any given Reddit user was "toxic", when the CEO or other Reddit employees can edit the users' posts?
Basically, Reddit is so fucked...
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
Oddly enough, Wikipedia doesn't seem to have any problem posting info on equally discredible pedophilia claim against Donald Trump. But I guess in SJW-dominated Silicon Valley, it only counts as a "conspiracy theory," "fake news," and "harassment" if it's coming from the right. The left is free to spread whatever bullshit they want.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
That sums up the problem with the left, actually. The left wouldn't care about a pedo ring involving their anointed candidate, just like they didn't care of Bill's frequent flights on the "Lolita Express" to the pedo island. The reason why Clinton is mentioned in Pizzagate is because the "conspiracy theory" originates in her emails published by Wikileaks.