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"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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2015, @10:58AM
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
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
> 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
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!