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When was reddit arbitrarily banning things they don't like?

• fweespeech 11y ago
  Can we agree a large percentage of the Reddit population felt that Reddit Inc acted arbitrarily [in general, not nesc the bans] regardless of your feelings on the matter?
• leereeves 11y ago
  Reddit still lacks an objective definition for "harassment". (So does the world, I think.) > When was reddit arbitrarily banning things they don't like? When they banned five subreddits (actually quite a few more than that, but five were announced), without a clear policy that could be fairly enforced on all subs.
  • DanBC 11y ago
    That banning was consistant with existing reddit rules at the time and was not out of the blue. FPH especially had been warned several times about vote brigading; many of the FPH users got shadow bans for vote brigading.
    • leereeves 11y ago
      FPH wasn't the only sub banned, and brigading was not mentioned by reddit as a reason for the bans. https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/removing_harassing_subreddits/ https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/remov...
    • EdiX 11y ago
      And yet ShitRedditSays is allowed to vote brigade as much as it wants.
      • obstinate 11y ago
        Yea, see, that does not actually happen.
      • deleted 11y ago
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      • DanBC 11y ago
        No, they're not. Point out vote brigades to the admins and they shadow ban users and the sub risks being banned. Reddit should just release some charts of brigades from FPH and SRS.
  • afarrell 11y ago
    > So does the world The world relies on case law to resolve ambiguity