Comment by Tylenol_Creator on 11/06/2015 at 02:32 UTC*

4780 upvotes, 42 direct replies (showing 25)

View submission: Removing harassing subreddits

What you just did:

http://i.imgur.com/ZQHN2gS.png

Edit: First gold for a crappy drawing, thanks!

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Comment by icanhasreclaims at 11/06/2015 at 05:19 UTC

958 upvotes, 11 direct replies

There's merit in keeping the masses of a bigoted community segregated in a way that allows open discussion. With this new decision, the backlash will be in the form of a vehement spillover into the subreddits that were once able to defend against trolling. Reddit cannot quantify how strong the retaliation issue will become and the man-hours needed to resolve those issues.

I mentioned this in response to another comment on this thread, and your infographic paints the picture very well.

Comment by sickhippie at 11/06/2015 at 05:21 UTC*

566 upvotes, 5 direct replies

~~Someone~~ /u/siccoblue on another thread[1] likened it to getting rid of an anthill with a leaf blower.

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/39c58h/could_someone_sue_reddit_for_banning_and/cs2ch7d

Comment by BootyFabricator at 11/06/2015 at 05:14 UTC

20 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Exactly..... Took a small clusterfuck and created a MEGA-CLUSTERFUCK!

do you have any idea how hard it is to clean up a MEGA-CLUSTERFUCK?!?!?!

Comment by El_Marquistador at 11/06/2015 at 07:58 UTC

5 upvotes, 1 direct replies

This is an interesting point I hadn't thought about. Boogie talked about it, and gave an interesting perspective on the whole thing.

https://youtu.be/nBmScggN-dc

Comment by choikwa at 11/06/2015 at 05:43 UTC

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rorJCGF1aM

Comment by [deleted] at 11/06/2015 at 05:42 UTC

38 upvotes, 1 direct replies

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Comment by [deleted] at 11/06/2015 at 21:23 UTC

4 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Did you know you're famous now? http://www.vox.com/2015/6/11/8767035/fatpeoplehate-reddit-ban

Comment by EHP42 at 11/06/2015 at 05:44 UTC

13 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Thing is, I doubt fph people were coming here only for fph. They were already among the greater populace. Getting rid of their sub doesn't spread them out anymore than they already were.

Comment by Miguelito-Loveless at 11/06/2015 at 14:35 UTC

2 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Indeed. It seems like the optimal way to approach this would be to institute a rule that offensive/aggressive subs (whatever criteria used should be stated formally and enforced objectively) can't ever hit the home page. That way casual users would not see that content and wouldn't be driven away from Reddit. If you have to make an active decisions to visit those subs, then you get what you ask for. The rest off us can live in peace.

However, now that Reddit has chosen a different path, they may feel committed to it.

Comment by [deleted] at 11/06/2015 at 13:56 UTC

6 upvotes, 1 direct replies

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Comment by OmniumRerum at 11/06/2015 at 14:37 UTC

7 upvotes, 0 direct replies

/r/all right now

Comment by Kaibakura at 13/06/2015 at 02:41 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

There's a third picture you're missing. It's the one of what Reddit looks like after the dust settles.

Yeah, right now they're all over the damn place making all sorts of noise. But when they realize they can't do shit about it, they will migrate elsewhere or just stfu in general.

Comment by SubtleZebra at 11/06/2015 at 13:39 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

That's one way this could work. It's also possible that a good way to increase bigotry is to create communities that nurture it, that make partial-bigots, closet bigots, and even mostly-not-bigoted people feel as if bigotry is OK and most other people share their bigoted views. So it's very possible that shutting down these subreddits is more like destroying a spawning site that would otherwise just keep on periodically spitting out trolls into the wider reddit community.

Comment by [deleted] at 11/06/2015 at 07:25 UTC

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Comment by yungstunna21 at 11/06/2015 at 15:32 UTC

0 upvotes, 0 direct replies

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Comment by [deleted] at 11/06/2015 at 13:03 UTC

1 upvotes, 2 direct replies

It's like burning down the town bar all the racists like to drink at. You haven't gotten rid of the racists, you've just scattered them so now every bar has someone yelling about those dirty [insert slur of your choice here].

Comment by [deleted] at 11/06/2015 at 11:41 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Yeah - because the people who subscribed to FPH were only ever on that sub. They were neatly contained and never went anywhere else.

This is an accurate depiction of events and not at all bullshit.

Comment by Vladith at 11/06/2015 at 13:35 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

That's bullshit and you know it. FPH had been bleeding out into other subs for months, as nothing on Reddit forces people to only discuss certain topics on certain boards.

Comment by CallMeOatmeal at 11/06/2015 at 15:47 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

They were already leaking into all the default subs. They're already there.

Comment by DeathbyHappy at 11/06/2015 at 18:09 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

This what happened in Jurassic Park when they took the fences offline

Comment by _unsubscriber_ at 11/06/2015 at 11:38 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Actually, when browsing reddit right now, it seems like they accomplished this:

http://imgur.com/askJcS0

Comment by beccaonice at 11/06/2015 at 13:32 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Are we pretending that people who posted in fatpeoplehate didn't use other subreddits already? Ok.