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you can't ban harassment because there's no definition>
For the lazy - legal definition: "the act of systematic and/or continued unwanted and annoying actions of one party or a group, including threats and demands"
The examples you give are people posting things which the "victim" can choose to either look at or not look at, obviously not harassment, libel at best. "Harassment, bullying and abuse" are the terms being used, and all are aiming to describe the same thing - going out of your way to make someone else's life miserable. We all have some sense of what cyber-bullying is, and that's probably the best example of what they're trying to prevent. Things like going through someone's post history and making abusive comments, seeking out new posts of theirs and downvoting or commenting on them in a "systematic and continued" way as the definition states. There's always grey areas, but it's not that much more difficult to define than most things.
Comment by Luxwhm at 17/07/2015 at 23:48 UTC*
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Yes it is, actually. While I agree keeping it close to the legal definition will work, why would they add this separate from an illegal activity>?
The harassment has to mean something softer than legal harassment. And I agree, it is about the victimization online--"make someone else'es life miserable". But that most definitely will be a liberal sending a report on a conservative. Or a feminist against an MRA. or vice versa.
The problem is the wording of footnote [2] too easily gives in to this reductio ad absurdum. If Reddit goes with the higher limits toward the legal definition, they won't appease the progressive's arguing this is an exclusive boys club that harms minorities. And that appeasing brings in the money.
Frankly, that is why the harassment rule has the silencing argument. It is an obvious bias that points toward tumbling down the rabbit hole. Most formal justice liberals have disagreed with that argument since its inception in the 80's because of this effect and what it says about equality.