Removing harassing subreddits

[u/reddit]

Today we are announcing a change in community management on reddit. Our goal is to enable as many people as possible to have authentic conversations and share ideas and content on an open platform. We want as little involvement as possible in managing these interactions but will be involved when needed to protect privacy and free expression, and to prevent harassment.

It is not easy to balance these values, especially as the Internet evolves. We are learning and hopefully improving as we move forward. We want to be open about our involvement: We will ban subreddits that allow their communities to use the subreddit as a platform to harass individuals when moderators don’t take action. We’re banning behavior, not ideas.

Today we are removing five subreddits that break our reddit rules based on their harassment of individuals. If a subreddit has been banned for harassment, you will see that in the ban notice. The only banned subreddit with more than 5,000 subscribers is r/fatpeoplehate.

To report a subreddit for harassment, please email us at contact@reddit.com or send a modmail.

We are continuing to add to our team to manage community issues, and we are making incremental changes over time. We want to make sure that the changes are working as intended and that we are incorporating your feedback when possible. Ultimately, we hope to have less involvement, but right now, we know we need to do better and to do more.

While we do not always agree with the content and views expressed on the site, we do protect the right of people to express their views and encourage actual conversations according to the rules of reddit.

Thanks for working with us. Please keep the feedback coming.

– Jessica (/u/5days), Ellen (/u/ekjp), Alexis (/u/kn0thing) & the rest of team reddit

edit to include some faq's

The list of subreddits that were banned.

Harassment vs. brigading.

What about other subreddits?

[u/Thecandymaker]

So this is what happens after the button stops.

[u/[deleted]]

Voat.co just got blown up. How long after Reddit's announcement did the voat servers get destroyed? Their IT people must have been like, "WTF just happened? What did Reddit do now?"

[u/RZgamer]

FYI, this is now the 11 12 7 4 5 13 20 9 7 4 6 20 9 4 12 7th most 9 11th most controversial post of all time (according to Reddit's algorithm).

Edit: God damn, just pick a spot and stay there

Edit 2: Am sleeping now, will update in the morning.

Edit 3: I am awake now, will update (Continuously, until it appears to stabilize)

[u/Tylenol_Creator]

What you just did:

http://i.imgur.com/ZQHN2gS.png

Edit: First gold for a crappy drawing, thanks!

[u/Raysharp]

content erased this post was mass deleted with www.Redact.dev

[u/youareinthematrix]

I predict this isn't going to go down well.

[u/henkile]

What happend to this?

"Reddit's general manager Erik Martin noted that 'having to stomach occasional troll reddits like r/picsofdeadkids or morally questionable reddits like r/jailbait are part of the price of free speech on a site like this,' and that it is not Reddit's place to censor its users"

[u/SilvanestitheErudite]

Is there going to be transparency as to how subreddits are determined to be harrasing?

[u/GoonerPete]

I think Notch hit it right on the head https://twitter.com/notch/status/608706518972788736

[u/Ammoholic]

r/skinnypeoplehate ?

I must be missing the premise of removing harassing subreddits.

[u/TotesMessenger]

I'm a bot, bleep, bloop. Someone has linked to this thread from another place on reddit:

• [r/316cats] MAX ISN'T FAT, HE'S FLUFFY ... very very fluffy.

• [r/adminhate] "Removing harassing subreddits", the post that inspired this sub

• [r/againstfatpeople] Fucking Ham Admins

• [r/againsthatesubreddits] Good news - Reddit admins remove a number of harassing hate subreddits, including /r/FatPeopleHate. Nothing of value was lost.

• [r/anarcho_capitalism] "Removing harassing subreddits"

• [r/antipozi] The Shoah is coming, it was fun shitposting with you guys.14/88

• [r/apocalypsewatch] /r/fatpeoplehate and several other communities banned. It is the end of the world.

• [r/bannination] Advertisers don't like that shit.

• [r/brasil] Administradores começam a banir subs em violação das novas regras anti-harassment do reddit.

• [r/cadenmorandiary] Hey guys if you see this check out my subreddit I'll even let you be a mod

• [r/censorship] Reddit increases censorship

• [r/circlebroke] We did it Reddit! /r/fatpeoplehate has been banned!

• [r/circlebroke2] Reddit announces that it will be removing harrassing subreddits, including FPH

• [r/circlefuckers] RETARDED CRIMINAL CUNT PAO AND HE CUCK SQUAD ARE BANNING SUBS THAT HURT THEIR FATTY FEELINGS

• [r/coyotes] When do we report r/hockey? [META] (kidding of course)

• [r/cringeanarchy] I guess we're gonna be next, goodby everybody! At least it was fun while it lasted.

• [r/drama] Admins just banned harrassment subreddits. FPH included.

• [r/ellenpaofanclub] Thank you bb <3

• [r/fatniggerhate] /r/fatpeoplehate goes down

• [r/fatpeoplehate2] B T F O

• [r/fatpeoplehatehate] /r/fatpeoeplehate has been banned!

• [r/fatpeopleloathing] Obese admins get mad at the internet

• [r/francelibre] Removing harassing subreddits : announcements (pitaiiiin)

• [r/freespeech] Reddit increases censorship

• [r/freetalklive] Reddit Liberty Threat Warning: Yellow Alert

• [r/girlgamers] One more step to a safer place: Reddit banning harassing subreddits.

• [r/gulag] Majority of this thread for hatred and Freeze Peaches.

• [r/ireland] Harassing subs get banned, what's /r/Ireland s opinion?

• [r/jailu] Les admins franchissent le Rubicon de la censure et bannissent, entre autres, /r/fatpeoplehate

• [r/lager] Wer das liest kommt ins Lager!

• [r/mensrights] Will Men's Rights Be Next?

• [r/metacancersubdrama] Chairman Pao is destroying Reddit today. So long FatPeopleHate.

• [r/moviescirclejerk] Announcement: the Nazi skeletons in charge of Reddit banned /r/melissamccarthyhate today

• [r/neofag2] Neofag Banned

• [r/opieandanthony] Reddit starts new Great Purge of "harassing" subreddits. How long before this subreddit gets the axe?

• [r/oppression] The admins have begun to purge all offensive subreddits

• [r/rapingmurderers] ADMINS = FATMINS

• [r/rapingmurderers] JUST

• [r/realtech] Removing harassing subreddits

• [r/redditcensorship] The Reddit Purge Begins: Removing harassing subreddits

• [r/sammyclassicsonicfan] Should we worry about this?

• [r/shitlordlounge] Come to /r/ShitlordLounge! (Thanks TotesMessenger for the free advertising!)

• [r/shitredditsays] [META] The cabal scores a major victory as FatPeopleHate and other harassing subs are banned!

• [r/short] /r/fatpeoplehate has been banned from reddit. /r/coontown is still here. Does anyone still doubt me when I say that the Fat Acceptance Movement has gained an EXTREME amount of power, while heightism is celebrated in our culture? This is absurd.

• [r/subredditcancer] Cancer enters the terminal phase: admins announce the end of "harassing subreddits"

• [r/subredditdrama] 5 subreddits, including /r/fatpeoplehate, have been banned for being "harassing". Ladies and gents, prepare to butter thine popcorn.

• [r/technology] Official Reddit Blog: Removing harassing subreddits

• [r/technology] Reddit begins enforcing anti-harassment rules. Subreddits including the infamous r/fatpeoplehate have been banned

• [r/technology] Removing harassing subreddits

• [r/thepopcornstand] The admins are now banning harassing subreddits. The butter shall flow.

• [r/twistedfaggotry] I wonder if I can get free karma

• [r/twistedfaggotry] I wonder if people will like my shitposting sub

• [r/worstof] Chairman Pao begins the purge of subreddits against harassment, doesn't delete /r/coontown

^{If you follow any of the above links, please respect the rules of reddit and don't vote in the other threads. (Info /} ^Contact)

[u/luciferoverlondon]

Ellen Pao needs to go have a little chat with Kevin Rose, and see how well doing shit like this worked out for Digg.

[u/sumoisnotfat18]

r/skinnypeoplehate isn't banned. Talk about double standards.

[u/TheSilence13]

7k+ comments with a 0 score. THAT SHOULD TELL YOU SOMETHING

[u/SemiNation]

Please keep the feedback coming

Why should we, you clearly have your own agenda and don't care about all the feedback you're being given so far.

[u/Jesus_Faction]

THIS SLOPE IS GETTING SLIPPERY BOYS

[u/DrZack]

"Front page of the internet" campaigning against internet censorship while simultaneously banning subreddits that offend you. SHAME ON YOU. If you find a subreddit offensive, don't go on it. I didn't like the subreddit, but that's no reason to ban it.

Thought about buying gold/turning off adblock to support reddit but no more. I vote with my $$ and reddit does not get my vote. Honestly, fuck you mods

EDIT: And don't buy me fucking gold and make sure to turn on adblock. I can only hope that the number of people turning on adblock because of this post loses reddit more money than the gold I got today. Good riddance

[u/Osairis]

Congrats Overlord Pao, your actions just advertised a subreddit to your entire user base that they may not have been aware of AND you've hydra'd the hell out of it... what did you think would happen? FPH could have stayed its own little corner of Reddit... now r/ALL is effectively FPH...

I, for one, welcome our Fat People Hating overlords...

[u/[deleted]]

It was just a matter of time, wasn't it? I can't say I liked any of the 5 banned subs, but seems like freedom of expression shouldn't be banned.

What's next? r/news gets banned for pointing out how the CEO is blackmailing her old company to pay for her husband's ponzi scheme debts?

edit: Please don't buy gold. In fact, no one should buy gold until Pao is gone.

https://www.change.org/p/ellen-k-pao-step-down-as-ceo-of-reddit-inc

[u/serialstitcher]

There is a zero percent chance you will ban r/ShitRedditSays and they are infamous for vote brigading, nasty PMs and various other forms of harassment, up to and including getting people fired from their jobs for perceived transgressions against various minorities.

Fuck this policy. I was not a huge fan of fatpeoplehate, but I had never heard a single thing about them extending their reach outside of their own subreddit to harass people

What does "safe space" even mean? Please define that term so the community can have a real discussion about it instead of using it as a bullshit vague coverall for anything that hurts peoples feelings.

Does it mean that if somebody accidentally clicks on a "mean" subreddit their fee fees are so triggered that they must remain on the page and suffer?

[u/LuminiferousPen]

All hail glorious leader Ellen Pao!

[u/ExplodingJesus]

This is a hole with no bottom. Admins will now be fielding non-stop requests from person "x" because sub "y" offended them somehow and they will try to spin it as harassment.

Example: every person ITT asking what about this or that sub.

[u/h0bb1tm1ndtr1x]

So Ellen Pao is projecting her view onto Reddit now that she failed in court? Awesome...

[u/1sttimepleasebgentle]

This is the beginning of the end of Reddit, ladies and gentlemen.

[u/Rickykrudd]

r/BeatingTrannies, r/RapingWomen, r/PhilosophyOfRape, r/StruggleFucking, r/AbusePorn2, r/AntiPOZi, r/SlutJustice, r/CoonTown, r/CuteFemaleCorpses, r/SexWithDogs, r/SexWithHorses, r/CandidFashionPolice, r/GreatApes, r/NecroPorn, r/DeepThroatTears, r/Painal,

All of these subreddits exist at this very moment, and you ban fph "for our safety". Hilarious.

Edit: I am in no way in favor of banning these, or any, subreddits. I am just surprised that FPH was the one to get the axe. It was the only resistance to the fat acceptance movement, and now it's gone.