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

[Kaz]

That's imgur's problem, not reddit's.
The site also had a set of rules that prohibited harassment. When you break those rules, you face the consequences. It has nothing to do with whatever freedoms you may think you have in a private domain, they broke the rules, and they got banned.

The rules are iffy and abused constantly. What counts as harassment these days? What counts as private investigating? How is it private investigating if the info is available to the public?

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[ZombiLoin]

The rules are iffy and abused constantly. What counts as harassment these days? What counts as private investigating? How is it private investigating if the info is available to the public?

... putting images of the imgur staff on the sidebar (only editable by mods) and encouraging it in the subreddit. that's about as clear cut case of "encouraging harassment" as it gets.

[HellHound]

The salt is real.

[Foxscotch]

can someone explain to me what the issue with SRS is
as far as I can tell it's just for making fun of people saying loveist stuff
which is far from the worst thing someone can do

[ZombiLoin]

i wonder how much money reddit made from gold yesterday. this was probably a win win for them in the long and short run. they get tons of money from gold, and most of the starfishs on the site migrate away.

best case scenario.

[Kaz]

can someone explain to me what the issue with SRS is
as far as I can tell it's just for making fun of people saying loveist stuff
which is far from the worst thing someone can do

From what I understand, it's a cabal of power users that get themselves promoted to mods on other subs and slowly turn the sub into the kind of hugbox rad fems seem to enjoy. The sub itself is kind of a staging point for them and a mix between /r/cringe and the opposite of /r/tumblrinaction.

It's honestly kind of a hivemind thing for rad fems.

[SeventhSandwich]

i wonder how much money reddit made from gold yesterday. this was probably a win win for them in the long and short run. they get tons of money from gold, and most of the starfishs on the site migrate away.

best case scenario.

I don't think you're right about the starfishs migrating away. They're still on reddit, but now they're going to post all the same stuff everywhere else. Sure, they'll get banned, but they'll still manage to inconvenience other users who wouldn't even have to read their garbage if /fatpeoplehate/ and other containment boards were still around.

Gotta pick the lesser evil.

[ZombiLoin]

From what I understand, it's a cabal of power users that get themselves promoted to mods on other subs and slowly turn the sub into the kind of hugbox rad fems seem to enjoy. The sub itself is kind of a staging point for them and a mix between /r/cringe and the opposite of /r/tumblrinaction.

too bad you have nothing to back that up. like most conspiracy theories, lol.

[Camel]

I don't think you're right about the starfishs migrating away. They're still on reddit, but now they're going to post all the same stuff everywhere else. Sure, they'll get banned, but they'll still manage to inconvenience other users who wouldn't even have to read their garbage if /fatpeoplehate/ and other containment boards were still around.

Gotta pick the lesser evil.

a lot of people are saying that getting rid of the containment boards is a bad thing, and while that is true to an extent

when it comes to hate-groups, they always gravitate towards each other and forming groups, because even if they're saying vile stuff, if they're just shouting it in a sea of people who aren't listening they aren't getting their attention fix. they need to band together and form coalitions.

i feel like when you get rid of /fatpeoplehate/, either a new containment board will show up, or the discussion just disappears.

[Kaz]

too bad you have nothing to back that up. like most conspiracy theories, lol.

You can go in the subreddit, look at their modbox, click their names and see the subs they mod. A popular example is r/games which has been making waves lately with overt censorship and blatant advertising. I don't really wanna argue with you or anything, you just keep coming at me for stuff that seriously has already been proven.

[SeventhSandwich]

when it comes to hate-groups, they always gravitate towards each other and forming groups, because even if they're saying vile stuff, if they're just shouting it in a sea of people who aren't listening they aren't getting their attention fix. they need to band together and form coalitions.

Yeah, that's a given, which means it's really easy to contain them within a group of other like-minded starfishs.

i feel like when you get rid of /fatpeoplehate/, either a new containment board will show up, or the discussion just disappears.

Why would the discussion disappear, given what you just said in the above quote?

[ZombiLoin]

You can go in the subreddit, look at their modbox, click their names and see the subs they mod. A popular example is r/games which has been making waves lately with overt censorship and blatant advertising. I don't really wanna argue with you or anything, you just keep coming at me for stuff that seriously has already been proven.

please, enlighten me as to this "overt censorship" and "blatant advertising." it wouldn't be that hard because it's already proven, right?

[Camel]

Why would the discussion disappear, given what you just said in the above quote?

discussion maybe wasn't the right word, rather i think if they're just saying it, ultimately as no one listens or agrees with them they just get bored and stop talking or leave reddit to greener pastures.

[Kaz]

please, enlighten me as to this "overt censorship" and "blatant advertising." it wouldn't be that hard because it's already proven, right?

Here's a link to some of the censorship that goes on in /r/games. You'd have to give me a little while to find the thread that started it off, but they've nuked a few threads over the past few months. As for the ads, I feel that one is kinda self explanatory. For lack of a better word, there will always be shills.

[SeventhSandwich]

ultimately as no one listens or agrees with them they just get bored and stop talking or leave reddit to greener pastures.

I feel like the support for /fatpeoplehate/ is at an all time high right now. People don't like mass-censorship, even if it's the censorship of ideas they disagree with. You're right that they might leave reddit if no one supports them, but that's not the case.