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View submission: Let's talk content. AMA.
I hear you believe me I do, but to me that reasoning is *exactly* why fat people hate shouldn't have been banned.
I don't agree with their mission statement *AT ALL* just to be clear, but it was the same type of deal where one singular person might say "let's kill these hamplanets" but that's not what the posts or the sub itself was advocating. So why does Coontown get to stay?
To me you either leave all the subreddits alone (my personal choice, even the ones that hate me because of the color of my skin), or you ban all the ones that are terrible.
The rape ones
The screw the blacks ones
The "Let's call Ellen Pao racist things because we were mad about a website" ones
Let it just be memes, gifs, and cats and call it a day if that's what you want, but this selective picking of who it's ok to hate and who it's not ok to hate makes me sick to my stomach.
Comment by Monteitoro at 16/07/2015 at 23:19 UTC
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I think this is definitely something they are trying to work out, and why they are doing this AMA. I would think that if coontown is harassing people in a similar fashion to fatpeoplehate then they will be banned in the near future (you have already shown some evidence). i'd say the dust is still settling from all the changes in the company being made. take comfort that the majority of reddit stands behind you, at least.
Comment by VioletCrow at 16/07/2015 at 22:27 UTC
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You got me there. I wasn't so familiar with what FPH was like, so I couldn't make the comparison there, but if FPH was like that, then it raises a huge consistency issue.
You're absolutely right that this selectivity is exactly the thing the admins should not be doing, this is an issue where they need to be hardline one way or another. Personally I would like all the terrible subs to be banned, because what they do would never be tolerated in a million years in any real life public forum, so it's absurd that they can get away with it online. I respect you a lot when you say you would rather leave the subreddits alone though, because that's some hardcore sticking to your principles right there. Major props to you man.
Selectivity is going to leave exactly noone happy though, not you, not me, not the community, not the mods, not the admins and certainly not the investors.
Comment by [deleted] at 16/07/2015 at 22:23 UTC
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Comment by NinjaRedditorAtWork at 16/07/2015 at 23:22 UTC
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Why do people not understand it was the fact that not only were the users of FPH brigading/etc but it was the mods themselves of the subreddit encouraging it (the most obvious case being with the imgur employees)? I think it was clearly defined multiple times by multiple CEO's/Admins.