Comment by alonghardlook on 05/08/2015 at 23:34 UTC

548 upvotes, 4 direct replies (showing 4)

This. Every time this comes up, SRS gets a mention like this and every single time, it is completely ignored. I'm all in favor of riding reddit of some of the trash, but lets not just focus on the obvious places. Racist, sexist and other hateful places are a great start, but SRS actively brigades and has admitted it. SRS is obviously not as obviously offensive, but they are certainly not making reddit a safe or better place.

I vote Warlizard for the new CEO. He's obviously had experience running a high profile forum before, so we know he can deal with it.

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Comment by Stoppels at 06/08/2015 at 02:08 UTC*

184 upvotes, 4 direct replies

This. Every time this comes up, SRS gets a mention like this and every single time, it is completely ignored.

/u/spez has the once in a ~~lifetime~~ thread opportunity to prove he's the hero reddit deserves. However, I don't expect he will reply, even though one of the most well-known members of reddit wrote that comment (actually the thread's *top comment*). Hell, I don't even know who half the admins are and I didn't know of *any* over a year ago, yet I've known of /u/Warlizard since a little while after I signed up.

I have no experience with SRS (and therefore don't judge any individual membes), but I've seen some mean-spirited brigades (and a thousand times read how awful people think they are and how unfair it is that they're protected by reddit admins), while seeing so many people seemingly receive(d) (shadow)bans for "brigading". It just seems extremely unjust, subjective and hypocritical, something the CEO of reddit should not want to be known as.

Edit: It seems /u/spez did touch on SRS in this thread somewhere, but that he only and perhaps unknowingly clearly confirmed that SRS is treated differently from other controversial subreddits such as FPH (a subreddit which I didn't even know before reddit's implosion by 'FPH posts' filling the top 100 of /r/all and every default sub's front page).

Comment by tones2013 at 06/08/2015 at 03:49 UTC

13 upvotes, 1 direct replies

To be fair, none of the subreddits that have been banned so far are in the same league as SRS. Reddit claimed FPH was about doxxing but anyone with half a brain knows it was about reddits commercial relationships.

Comment by Warlizard at 05/08/2015 at 23:50 UTC

99 upvotes, 2 direct replies

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Comment by gunch at 06/08/2015 at 13:28 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

but they are certainly not making reddit a safe or better place.

Of course they aren't, but they are making reddit more palatable to advertisers. Which is the primary concern of reddit. Reddit doesn't exist to give you a place to openly discuss ideas. It exists to make money.