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View submission: Reddit Community Values
My biggest issue with talking about community values is that it seems like many of the more egregious communities on here only get dealt with once Reddit gets media attention. It's a huge website that somehow still functions in a fairly isolated space from conventional media (compared to Facebook/Twitter), and while that has both positives and negatives it feels like the unavoidably bad sides of the website are allowed to fester up to a point where it could damage shareholders.
I understand that companies are hesitant to alienate parts of its revenue-providing users since companies ultimately exist to benefit its stakeholders, but when the core values of a place like Reddit exist in relation to the community it leaves a sour taste when things are seemingly done to please shakeholders under the guise of pleasing users.
Comment by _regionrat at 17/02/2022 at 19:05 UTC
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It's not a hypothetical situation. We've already seen several incel shooters get radicalized here.
Comment by spez at 17/02/2022 at 18:51 UTC*
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Thanks for the question, I'll take this one live.
1: https://www.reddit.com/talk/9acbd3a2-99ef-4820-893f-fcf23ff8a541
I would be lying if I said the media does not get our attention from time to time, but so do users and our own team, more often than not. We make decisions based on our policies, our values (which are listed here today), and our mission. As it relates to removing subreddits, just yesterday we released our annual Transparency Report for 2021. We removed more than 400,000 subreddits last year. The vast majority of them were for being unmoderated or for content manipulation. But you’ll see about 13,000 subreddits were removed for a variety of other policy violating reasons.
Far and away the most important of our stakeholders are communities. Reddit does not exist without them. That’s why I think it’s important that these values be public, so everyone knows what our priorities are. Of course, we make decisions to support the business when we need to, but in the long term the business exists to support our platform.
Comment by thundure at 24/02/2022 at 02:19 UTC
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You are such a fake person lol