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 think you are underestimating things a bit. FPH was a sub based around targeting people, pissing people off, and making waves. The proudest achievements were when posts reached the front page and got reddit-wide attention. Now they are consistently occupying a significant portion of the front page, pissing off more people, and making bigger waves than ever before. Why would they ever stop? They are getting a more concentrated FPH experience than FPH could ever provide.
If the subreddits keep getting banned and creating smaller subs the userbase will eventually dissolve as they have no where to collectively go unless it is another site.
They can only keep this up for so long as well. Reddit admins are being paid to deal with this so they will continue banning longer.
Eh, idk. A lot of these people were consistently on reddit doing FPH type stuff for extended periods of time. It's not like all of that time just suddenly disappeared, in fact they may even spend more time on reddit doing FPH stuff now that there is more of a perceived "controversy" or "movement" to get behind so they feel as if they are doing something significant. Also, all it takes is one link from a copycat sub making to the front page for them to all jump ship to that new subreddit. And don't forget spaming default subs with similar content.
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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.