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View submission: Promote ideas, protect people
Reading over the survey results[1]. I can't see where people were complaining about being harassed. I even went to the survey CSV[2] and did a CTRL-F for "harass" and came up with 0 results.
1: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QJBPZt0oa3UCkL6QGBHp6vITXs3f1bYcCyA5xIQcFZw/pub
2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7mGKrwE1DttbjZhRWdWTXRqVjg/view?usp=sharing
I'm not convinced harassment is as big of an issue as you think.
Instead, like you say, the reason they don't recommend to friends is "they want to avoid exposing friends to hate and offensive content"
Well, offensive content can mean any range of things. I know a lot of people who are offended by the science behind climate change. I know others who are offended by LGBT in the public. I know a lot of people who are offended by nudity, in general.
I hope you're not going to start removing content based on reports of it being "offensive," and I'm scared you'll start shadowbanning users under general guideline of "harassment" such as calling out CEO's for misconduct.
Please tell me this isn't the plan.
Comment by Ios7 at 14/05/2015 at 22:12 UTC
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I think this new policy was made before the so called "survey".
Comment by scy1192 at 14/05/2015 at 19:10 UTC
17 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Reading over the survey results[1] . I can't see where people were complaining about being harassed. I even went to the survey CSV[2] and did a CTRL-F for "harass" and came up with 0 results.
tl;dr open-ended responses weren't included due to lots of personal information shared in them
Comment by Deathcrow at 14/05/2015 at 21:30 UTC
14 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'm not convinced harassment is as big of an issue as you think
I'm not convinced that they actually think that it is. They are saying that they think this to legitimize new rules.
Comment by terminal157 at 15/05/2015 at 16:53 UTC
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It seems that the survey is a shallow pretext to implement changes that the admins wanted. I can't see any other reasonable interpretation.
Comment by [deleted] at 14/05/2015 at 19:36 UTC
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My guess is that they want to get rid of some of the "problem" subreddits (the openly and viciously racist ones, for example). And for that I really can't blame them, I would probably do the same if it were my site. I don't think they are just using this as a cover to start removing content that they disagree with politically. Although it is their site and they certainly have the right to do that. I suspect their intentions are good here and that people are overreacting.
Comment by [deleted] at 14/05/2015 at 22:59 UTC
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I don't share reddit because I realise that reddit is a concept that forces people to change how they waste time on the internet.
I *have* to use reddit. Other people don't. Reddit's also pretty cringey, and their blog posts make me want to share it even less. Just look at the comments.