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posted by janrinok on Friday June 12 2015, @06:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the we-will-not-ban,-much dept.

The Washington Post:

"We will not ban questionable subreddits," Reddit's then-CEO, Yishan Wong, wrote mere months ago. "You choose what to post. You choose what to read. You choose what kind of subreddit to create."

But in an apparent reversal of that policy, and in an unprecedented effort to clean up its long-suffering image, Reddit has just banned five "questionable subreddits."

The site permanently removed the forums Wednesday afternoon for harassing specific, named individuals, a spokesperson said. Of the five, two were dedicated to fat-shaming, one to transphobia, one to racism and one to harassing members of a progressive video game site.

Unsurprisingly, a vocal contingent of Redditors aren't taking the changes well: "Reddit increases censorship," read one post on r/freespeech, while forums like r/mensrights and r/opieandanthony theorized they would be next.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @10:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @10:43AM (#195345)

    This post will be modded -1: Troll within minutes of my posting it.

    Your prediction was obviously wrong. There's still no troll moderation (or any other moderation) on your post.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @10:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @10:47AM (#195346)

    But do snarky replies count? Discuss amongst yourselves.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @10:58AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @10:58AM (#195350)

      No, they don't count. They don't decrease visibility of the post; indeed, they increase it. Therefore if anything, they should be considered an up moderation.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @07:12PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @07:12PM (#195492)

        While it may increase the visibility, it also adds to the noise drowning out what little signal there may have been.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @07:30PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @07:30PM (#195500)

          > While it may increase the visibility, it also adds to the noise drowning out what little signal there may have been.

          Only for people who read comments sorted newest first, all other sort options will make the original post more prominent than the snarky replies. Unless that is, the snarky reply gets modded above a filter threshold that would have made it invisible. But that still increases visibility for the OP since without that upmodded snarky reply the entire thread would be invisible.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @09:08PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @09:08PM (#195537)

        They don't decrease visibility of the post

        So decreasing post visibility is censorship? By posting, you're increasing the number of posts, which decreases the visibility of each individual post, which means posting is censorship!

        Stop posting, otherwise you're censoring me!