In the wake of a new anti-harassment policy, Reddit is banning a handful of its worst communities. "Our goal is to enable as many people as possible to have authentic conversations and share ideas and content on an open platform," a group moderator post reads. "We want as little involvement as possible in managing these interactions but will be involved when needed to protect privacy and free expression, and to prevent harassment."
The most prominent removal — or, as the moderators say, the only subreddit with more than 5,000 subscribers — is r/fatpeoplehate, a forum devoted to posting (among other things) pictures of overweight people for ridicule. A follow-up comment lists the other four subreddits as r/hamplanethatred, r/transfags, r/neofag, and r/shitniggerssay; they've all indeed been shut down, all but one "for violating the Reddit rules to keep everyone safe." According to the moderator, these last four ranged from 149 to 3071 subscribers, although in r/fatpeoplehate's case, "more than 5,000" is a bit of an understatement; the last Reddit metrics (and a Google cached page) put it at around 151,000 subscribers.
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Nobody was being harassed on fatpeoplehate! Reddit is really pissing me off!
Good news http://www.reddit.com/r/fat... is now up
The ego by which someone thinks their internet presence makes them relevant is laughable.
Is reddit some part of Myspace?
;p
Personally, I've always found most Reddit posts rather boring, senseless, and borderline moronic.
I could never quite understand why people are so involved in it.
There's still a ton of hateful bigoted subreddits that haven't been banned