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We have been looking closely at the conversations on reddit and at personal safety. We’ve always encouraged freedom of expression by having a mostly hands-off approach to content shared on our site. Volunteer moderators determine and uphold rules for content in their subreddits, and we have stepped in when we see threats to our values of privacy and safety.

In the past 10 years we’ve seen how these policies have fostered cool and amazing conversations on reddit. We’ve seen new types of conversations as AMAs and /r/askscience and /r/askhistorians developed. We’ve seen more and more organic content as part of conversations after the introduction of self-posts. We’ve also seen the scope and scale of discussions explode.

Unfortunately, not all the changes on reddit have been positive. We’ve seen many conversations devolve into attacks against individuals. We share redditors’ frustration with these interactions. We are also seeing more harassment and different types of harassment as people’s use of the Internet and the information available on the Internet evolve over time. For example, some users are harassing people across platforms and posting links on reddit to private information on other sites.

Instead of promoting free expression of ideas, we are seeing our open policies stifling free expression; people avoid participating for fear of their personal and family safety. Last month, we conducted a survey of over 15,000 redditors—these are people who are part of the reddit community—that showed negative responses to comments have made people uncomfortable contributing or even recommending reddit to others. The number one reason redditors do not recommend the site—even though they use it themselves—is because they want to avoid exposing friends to hate and offensive content.

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Reddit has officially jumped the shark. What this is is a mea culpa admitting that their history of letting the community police itself hasn't worked (it has) and beginning a crackdown on expression/speech/communities the admins don't like.
It started with /r/jailbait... but I wasn't a ephebophile so I didn't speak up. Then they came for /r/thefappening, but I didn't speak up because I wasn't into fuzzy pictures of people I don't know. Then they came for /r/gamergate, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a gamer.
I'm speaking up now. This is a step in a VERY WRONG direction and will be the end of reddit as we know it if it's allowed to continue
| Instead of promoting free expression of ideas, we are seeing our open policies stifling free expression
No, you're seeing expression you don't like and have decided to stifle that. If you're going to become a curated community of safe spaces and hugboxes, say that. If you're going to be a space for free expression, then you have to understand that some expression will offend your sensibilities. That's a GOOD THING. How else can one find out that they're wrong if not for challenging their own ideas?
I really hope that the reddit admins reconsider the path they're going down. Shadowbanning those who question Ellen Pao, banning communities that they don't like... digg fell for less than this. Reddit could very well be next.
Edit: It's really funny how immediately after this post was linked in SRS, the downvotes and lovely comments started. But they don't brigade. Nope. Good work, guys (Yes I said guys like the goddamn cishet white male shitlord I am.)

Cold on a Cob posted:

Beast of Bourbon posted:

that guy who ran /jailbait and /creepshots and /pedobait and all that stuff, he's back and is an employee of conde nast / reddit now

born on a buy you posted:

reddit like sa has good parts and poo poo parts and the idiot members of both think their place is superior

echinopsis posted:

johnny shoulda kept being poor and financially stressed huh? glad to see youre anti human

Stymie posted:

johnny should have sought relief from his Union instead of adding to the poverty and financial stress of other Workers, which is decidedly anti-human

seeking one's own comfort before the well being of others is pretty much the dictionary definition of evil

echinopsis posted:

so somehow coders around the world drop keyboards pick up a shovel and then all manual labour will be paid better?

echinopsis posted:

*works manual labour*

*injures self*

*has no other skills or anything to fall back on, can't get job using fully functional brain, rots in gutter next to stymie championing his choice of emplpyment*

Cold on a Cob posted:

last time i checked even fyad doesn't support outright child pornography

Linux Pirate posted:

i have never actually gone to reddit for anything, and i think, given the evidence provided, i made the right choice.

Sweevo posted:

threaded forum display AND child porn? its like the two worst things on the internet in one place!