Reddit banned some subreddits & pissed off hundreds of thousands of people

[ultimamax]

they have no idea what they're doing if they didnt even loving look at the posts in it before banning it like jfc

Well, considering new subreddits were popping up left and right (like /r/fatpeoplehate with 3 random numbers after it or peoplefathate or EllenPaoMustResign or whatever) they probably were doing sweeps and didn't have time to check the content.

A stupid decision. Maybe it was linked in the sidebar of r/fph or something as a joke and it led the admins to believe it was part of their network. Who knows.

EDIT: Oh, r/fph/ users took over r/whalewatching after the original subreddit was banned, so at first glance it appeared to be part of that network. It had no custom theme or subreddit description so the only way to know would be to dig into older posts and check.

[Ad Bot]

[Foxscotch]

wow that's really mean. whales are great
what did they do to deserve this

[Glass Joe]

wow that's really mean. whales are great
what did they do to deserve this

this brings my blood to a boil.

[Alternat¡ve]

this brings my blood to a boil.

Don't blow your hole over it :>)

[#Ravencroft]

I still don't really understand what this website is about tho. It's like a giant off-topic discussion with a terribly laid out comments section

[Foxscotch]

I still don't really understand what this website is about tho. It's like a giant off-topic discussion with a terribly laid out comments section

what? reddit?

[#Ravencroft]

what? reddit?

ye

[Obliviongate20]

I still don't really understand what this website is about tho. It's like a giant off-topic discussion with a terribly laid out comments section

basically a forum with thousands of different very specific subforums, very vague ones or ones that don't need to exist
e.g, r/pics is about pictures, r/fatpeoplehate was literally about hating fat people, and r/spacerichards is basically every disgusting thing possible

[Alternat¡ve]

I still don't really understand what this website is about tho. It's like a giant off-topic discussion with a terribly laid out comments section

The comments section is hard to understand at first but it is better than a forum like Blockland.

[Foxscotch]

the comment section is not even kind of hard to understand, it's literally just highest-rated to lowest-rated

[BassCrossMegaman1]

It's because they put the personal information of Imgur administrators in the sidebars and encouraged people to investigate/harass them.

It turns out that when you break the rules you get banned. Surprising, right?

also, lol, free speech on a private website - "they're infringing on my right to harass people! what a travesty!"

Then why does /r/stuffRedditSays and /r/SubredditDrama exist?
Those two literally have investigateed, brigaded, and harrassed, yet they dodge the People's Banhammer of Ellen Pao

Whatever, at least Reddit can be put out of its misery and stop being relevant, like what happened to digg.
I hope next up is the destruction of Tumblr.

[devildogelite]

This is the best thing ever, so many people taking reddit super seriously. So many tears in so little time. There are more tears then when /r/Atheism banned dank memes. Now /r/conspiracy is acting as a haven for fph people, if /r/conspiracy gets banned I don't even know what I'll do.

Actually /r/conspiracy should be banned because they investigate the stuff out of people, not to mention the time they organized a campaign to "investigate" some daycare that looked "odd".

[ZombiLoin]

"man look at these people getting super offended shut up man it's just a joke"

*r/fatpeoplehate gets banned*

"WHAT THE forget. ELLEN PAO YOU loving PIECE OF stuff 1000 DOLLARS TO PUNCH HER IN THE FACE. MUH FREEZE SPEECH IS GETTING STOMPED ON. LITERALLY 1984."

like i'm estimating at least 10,000 dollars in gold from this whole debacle.

[Bisjac]

i was a huge fan of fatpeoplehate lol

[Val]

i was a huge fan of fatpeoplehate lol

Glad to see I'm not the only one

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