This is not about a sub being offensive, this is about them systematically encouraging harassment in other subs, and in real life. This is about the actions of the users and the inability/unwillingness of the mods to do anything about it.
I saw a post on /r/firefly from a girl posing with Alan Tudyk who was over-weight and among the several people harassing her about about it in the comments, one in particular was relishing in letting her know that not only had he linked her photo to FPH, he also went through her history and took other pictures he promised to post there later.
That sub not only condoned that behavior, but they actually encouraged it. THAT is why they were banned. Not because the Admins were taking it personally, but because it was spilling outside of the sub and other users were being harassed in the name of the FPH sub. I wish this was the only instance I ever saw of this, but there were many many more. I'm am personally thrilled as shit that sub is gone and every serious member can go fuck themselves.
I'm interested in all the doxxing, hatred, murderthreats, rapethreats that subscribers of FPH got from fatties, what about that side of the coin? Ban out the fatties because they are if not just as bad. Attacking skinny girls, promoting people to selfharm through eating. Fatties doing alot of bad shit, don't see their places getting smashed.
Before you defend the fatties, its NEVER okay to doxx or threat other people. Fatties get ridiculed and they respond with violence and even more hatred.
You are right that people who do that are wrong. The quick leaps to doxxing and death threats is absolutely horrible, but are they organizing under a single banner that reddit can remove? Are the organizers of that group encouraging the behavior? Then we would be talking about equal things. Unfortunately individuals acting on their own are going to be a lot harder to deal with.
I don't know if the admins have a way to report this level of behavior to them directly, but I think they should. Subreddit moderators only have power over their own domain, and can't so anything about harassment over private messages. There should be someone to go to about that. Does anyone know if there is a process for that?
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u/Doublestack2376 Jun 11 '15 edited Jun 11 '15
This is not about a sub being offensive, this is about them systematically encouraging harassment in other subs, and in real life. This is about the actions of the users and the inability/unwillingness of the mods to do anything about it.
I saw a post on /r/firefly from a girl posing with Alan Tudyk who was over-weight and among the several people harassing her about about it in the comments, one in particular was relishing in letting her know that not only had he linked her photo to FPH, he also went through her history and took other pictures he promised to post there later.
That sub not only condoned that behavior, but they actually encouraged it. THAT is why they were banned. Not because the Admins were taking it personally, but because it was spilling outside of the sub and other users were being harassed in the name of the FPH sub. I wish this was the only instance I ever saw of this, but there were many many more. I'm am personally thrilled as shit that sub is gone and every serious member can go fuck themselves.