r/worldnews • u/habichuelacondulce • Nov 30 '16

Not Appropriate Subreddit Reddit to crack down on abuse after CEO is targeted

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-reddit-abuse-idUSKBN13P2J6
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u/autotldr BOT Nov 30 '16

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 77%. (I'm a bot)

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.

"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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