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View submission: Removing harassing subreddits
Exactly. The community reported anything that could even be a remote attempt to incite a brigade, and their automod was set up to remove posts that linked to other subs immediately.
This ban is about hurt feefees, not about brigading or rules being broken.
Comment by king_of_the_universe at 11/06/2015 at 09:52 UTC*
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I would agree with you, but I tried to come up with potential *reasons* (not just feefees) why the admins might have made this decision and *imagined* this[1]. All the text you're interested in:
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/removing_harassing_subreddits/cs2u348
[...] 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. [...]
What do you think?
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: