Comment by Iregretthisusername on 17/07/2015 at 16:28 UTC

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Our Harassment policy says "Systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone in a way that would make a reasonable person (1) conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation, or (2) fear for their safety or the safety of those around them,"

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I can give you examples of things we deal with on a regular basis that would be considered harassment:

* Going into self help subreddits for people dealing with serious emotional issues and telling people to kill themselves.

Messaging serious threats of harm to users towards themselves or their families.
Less serious attacks - but ones that are unprovoked and sustained and go beyond simply being an annoying troll. An example would be following someone from subreddit to subreddit repeatedly and saying “you’re an idiot” when they aren’t engaging you or instigating anything. This is not only harassment but spam, which is also against the rules.
Finding users external social media profiles and taking harassing actions or using the information to threaten them with doxxing.
Doxxing users.

I think this definition, when combined with the examples you provided give a clear picture of what qualifies as harassment *to an individual*. However what is far less clear is how this anti-harassment policy will be applied to groups claiming harassment, or used to make a judgement on behalf of those groups.

As /u/-Massachoosite points out, once you start considering groups that have conflicting ideologies (regardless of whether both of those groups are represented on Reddit), the issue of harassment become much more difficult to define.

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