Comment by spez on 17/02/2022 at 21:22 UTC*

15 upvotes, 29 direct replies (showing 25)

View submission: Reddit Community Values

Subreddits that truly exist in bad faith tend to not survive. And we can usually know how it’s going to go based on how the moderators respond when we reach out with a request[1] for them to tighten things up. If they are unable or unwilling to work with us we will then move towards sanctions, which can include things such as actioning users up to and including removing moderators or removing subreddits completely.

1: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/moderator-guidelines

It’s not against our policies to have views that are unpopular, unfashionable, or simply wrong. It’s not prudent (or feasible) for us as a company to broadly make these decisions for people. However, we do take action against communities or users that violate our content policy[2]. Communities are also free to (and do) draw their own lines by creating specific rules, which is a really important quality of Reddit communities.

2: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/content-policy

Where we spend most of our energy is preventing manipulation of Reddit. This can range from preventing groups of people from cheating with votes to our new “Community Interference” report reason, which as we shared recently in our Transparency Report[3], is 58% actionable (which is among the highest actionability rates of all our report reasons).

3: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/su8p2e/q4_safety_security_report/

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Comment by [deleted] at 17/02/2022 at 22:46 UTC

8 upvotes, 2 direct replies

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Comment by Throwaway13289873 at 23/02/2022 at 19:52 UTC

7 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Why is r/femaledatingstrategy a subreddit?

Comment by blueredscreen at 17/02/2022 at 21:33 UTC

9 upvotes, 2 direct replies

The question is who decides what is acceptable. Some things don't deserve a platform regardless of whether a particular group of people believe in it. For other ideas, it may be the opposite: just because a group of people might not like hearing it, it doesn't mean that it shouldn't be said. Where do you draw the line?

Comment by SirNarwhal at 17/02/2022 at 22:02 UTC*

13 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Subreddits that truly exist in bad faith tend to not survive.

Ahahahahaha

Wow, I needed that laugh. It's funny how completely out of touch you are with the very thing you run. We've gotten to the point that some of the former most innocuous subreddits about things like TV shows even are overrun with absolutely vile hate speech. I'll give one quick example, /r/survivor. The latest season had a non binary contestant and had another contestant married to a trans individual. The entire sub was flooded with hate speech. Mods did their best, but it still prevailed. And that's an example of a non-bad faith subreddit even having to deal with being completely overrun with absolute outdated and garbage ways of thinking.

Then you get to actual subreddits that exist in bad faith and there are so many that not only thrive, but cultivate, that it's too much to even list here. You've harbored subreddits that have resulted in real world deaths on multiple occasions and still act this dumb and naive over everything and it's just pathetic. The only ones that did not survive are ones that you intervened on simply due to outside media pressure. Own up and actually listen to the people that actually use your site and have been screaming this shit at you for over a decade now. It's exhausting.

Comment by Derpster3000 at 18/02/2022 at 20:14 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

When is r/bigchungus getting unbanned?

Comment by hockey_stick at 27/02/2022 at 01:14 UTC

2 upvotes, 2 direct replies

Subreddits that truly exist in bad faith tend to not survive.

Then do something about /r/russia. They're now spreading misinformation that's going to get people killed in Ukraine[1] and you've done nothing. If you let this continue, you're complicit.

1: https://i.redd.it/zilousytz7k81.jpg

Comment by Wubbzy-mon at 18/02/2022 at 00:15 UTC

2 upvotes, 1 direct replies

I got a question sir

Why did you remove Arron Swartz name from the Co-Founders list? He helped Reddit to where it was (and if Musk and basically buy Tesla early on, if this was the right incident, and be called the founder, then I sure as heck would think that because of the merger that Arron would still have his name)

Comment by FleeshaLoo at 19/05/2022 at 11:39 UTC

0 upvotes, 0 direct replies

It probably won't be very long before this post gets media attention...

https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/comments/ut00tj/ops%5C_birth%5C_video%5C_ends%5C_up%5C_on%5C_a%5C_fetish%5C_subreddit/

Comment by cyrilio at 19/02/2022 at 03:33 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Dear /u/Spez

As mod of a sub with 'special needs'. I'd love to see some of the community value's we strongly hold by added (some) to reddit as a whole. Mainly **our Nr1 rule**[1] to Follow the principles of harm reduction[2].

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs/about/rules/

2: https://harmreduction.org/about-us/principles-of-harm-reduction/

Having heard you talk about what you experienced makes me believe you care about this too. Please make reddit a place that takes the extra step where it can. It's the right thing to do and we need people/companies to set good examples. Especially now.

Love & Light

Comment by [deleted] at 23/02/2022 at 16:49 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

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Comment by ForgingIron at 25/02/2022 at 20:44 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Hey, why was this post removed by the admins? https://old.reddit.com/r/fakehistoryporn/comments/t0v1a4/removed_by_reddit/

Comment by [deleted] at 26/02/2022 at 00:23 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

r/russia needs to be quarantined. Removing their disinformation would save lives. Not to mention the sub violates Reddit policy against hate and threatening violence.

Comment by [deleted] at 28/02/2022 at 16:11 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

When is /r/russia getting banned?

Comment by Direct-Report-1349 at 01/03/2022 at 03:32 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

u/profanitycounter

Comment by RedditStaffMAP at 12/03/2022 at 06:04 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Sanctions = editorial edits. Curating content violates US 230 protections. Is reddit a platform or a news outlet?

Comment by RedditStaffMAP at 14/03/2022 at 00:03 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Are we ignoring the fact that this message voids your 230 protections? Like you're admitting to the fact you want content here edited and curated. I gave you days to respond, time to forward to U.S congressman.

Comment by notmemelotti at 14/03/2022 at 09:47 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Gargle my balls, loser

Comment by ktops111 at 19/03/2022 at 19:24 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Comment by TheOther36 at 26/03/2022 at 03:17 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Unban r/bigchungus

Comment by throaway7282737 at 28/03/2022 at 02:05 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

u/profanitycounter

Comment by Biolevinho at 03/04/2022 at 19:36 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Your employees are cheating on /r/place

disgraceful

Comment by money2354 at 08/04/2022 at 00:40 UTC

1 upvotes, 0 direct replies

Mr Reddit ceo dude if you by some means see this may I ask you something not counting this as that something