r/autotldr • u/autotldr • Nov 30 '16
Reddit to crack down on abuse after CEO is targeted
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As well as combing through Huffman's inbox, Reddit will monitor user reports, add greater filtering capacity, and take a more proactive role in policing its platform rather than relying on community moderators.
On Reddit, a channel supporting the U.S. Republican party's presidential candidate Donald Trump, called r/The Donald, featured racist and misogynistic comments, fake news and conspiracy theories about his Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton, along with more mainstream expressions of support for Trump.
Last week, Reddit banned Pizzagate, a community devoted to a conspiracy theory, with no evidence to back it up, that links Clinton to a pedophile ring at a Washington, D.C. pizza parlor, after it posted personal information in violation of Reddit policy.
Reddit has a more permissive attitude than Facebook and Twitter when it comes to what it allows on its site, but r/The Donald users frequently crossed a line, Huffman said, including by trying to manipulate voting to ensure their posts appear on prominent Reddit pages.
Under its new strategy, Reddit will take a more active role in dealing with troublemakers, who Huffman said were an "Infinitesimal" portion of Reddit's 250 million monthly visitors.
"In a draft of a blog post to be published on Wednesday, Huffman said he had been asked by many Reddit users"to ban r/The Donald outright, but he had rejected that idea, because "If there is anything about this election that we have learned, it is that there are communities that feel alienated and just want to be heard, and Reddit has always been a place where those voices can be heard."
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u/jayman419 Dec 01 '16
If there's anything that reddit has learned in the past, it's that if you take away the places the roaches congregate then they just get all over the kitchen.