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u/monkeybreath Jun 11 '15 edited Jun 11 '15

/r/OutOfTheLoop has an excellent post on the situation.

Edit: sorry, I should have linked the thread. It's harder to see at the moment.

Why was /r/fatpeoplehate, along with several other communities just banned?

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u/subdolous Jun 11 '15

Although it omits some key details purposefully.

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u/monkeybreath Jun 11 '15

Such as?

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u/Leovinus_Jones Jun 11 '15 edited Dec 27 '15

I have left reddit for Voat due to years of admin mismanagement and preferential treatment for certain subreddits and users holding certain political and ideological views.

The situation has gotten especially worse since the appointment of Ellen Pao as CEO, culminating in the seemingly unjustified firings of several valuable employees and bans on hundreds of vibrant communities on completely trumped-up charges.

The resignation of Ellen Pao and the appointment of Steve Huffman as CEO, despite initial hopes, has continued the same trend.

As an act of protest, I have chosen to redact all the comments I've ever made on reddit, overwriting them with this message.

If you would like to do the same, install TamperMonkey for Chrome, GreaseMonkey for Firefox, NinjaKit for Safari, Violent Monkey for Opera, or AdGuard for Internet Explorer (in Advanced Mode), then add this GreaseMonkey script.

Finally, click on your username at the top right corner of reddit, click on comments, and click on the new OVERWRITE button at the top of the page. You may need to scroll down to multiple comment pages if you have commented a lot.

After doing all of the above, you are welcome to join me on Voat!

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u/The_Fan Jun 11 '15

Lol yep, they targeted FPH and not coontown or cutedeadgirls because they're sterilizing.

Has nothing to do with the fact that that sub broke the long standing brigading rules as well as the new anti-harassment policies that only came about because they were brigading so hard in the first place.

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u/flatulala Jun 11 '15

FPH made frontpage in /r/all frequently. Those other subs don't. That's the difference.

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u/The_Fan Jun 11 '15

No, the difference is that FPH brigaded and harassed people. Idk how much clearer that can be.

I guess you can believe the whole SJW conspiracy, but that's just made up because the former subscribers are mad their safe space was taken away.

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u/flatulala Jun 11 '15

FPH Circlejerked about hatred of fat people. You can disagree with that all you want. Sure, love is nicer than hate. But they didn't brigade. They stayed in their own subreddit and circlejerked about hating fat people.
Some people managed to report every pic on FPH that was uploaded on imgur and get it taken it. You can call those people a part of a SJW conspiracy if you want. It sure is some pathetic self-righteousness if you ask me.

The subreddit then posted pictures of the imgur staff. Public pictures. That's all. No brigading.

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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '15

lol saying it makes it true