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View submission: Removing harassing subreddits
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Comment by king_of_the_universe at 11/06/2015 at 08:41 UTC*
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I've been somewhat active in /r/fatpeoplehate in the last months. Before, I didn't know about it, and yesterday - before it was banned (Big coincidence.) - I decided to unsubscribe because I just couldn't take all the fat-horror any longer that was present quite massively on my frontpage, all those images and stories of enabling.
I, too, have not seen any attempt to brigade in other places, or to follow users or people around. What I **suspect**, though, is that meme-reactions like "Found the fattie." were carried over by users, and *those* breadcrumbs lead the relevant people to assume that the subreddit was a source for imbalance on the reddit system. This might even be a correct determination of that subreddit's effects.
I'm not speaking out against that subreddit at all, and I'm not saying that it was right to ban it. I'm just giving a perspective that might be helpful in intellectually digesting this whole thing.
EDIT: I just got linked to a comment that says the main reasons is that FPH
got details of the imgur staff and put them in the sidebar for the users to attack imgur staff with.
I did see those images, but I didn't see that there were "details" (Doxxing?). Here's the comment: