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bthomas | 7 years ago

What’s the rationale for not naming them here?

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bloopernova|7 years ago

Reddit users are like a swarm of zombies sometimes. If something negative gets shared about a person or company, you can be fairly certain that there will be hundreds to tens of thousands of Redditors expressing their anger. That anger, whether deserved or not, results in everything from DDOS attacks, phonecalls from thousands of people, people contacting employees at home, death threats, etc etc.

There's also the tale of the Boston Marathon bombing, where some "over-enthusiastic" Reddit users took it upon themselves to solve the crimes based on footage from security cameras. The Reddit Detectives managed to hound and accuse the wrong people: https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-falsely-accuses-sunil...

So Reddit is very anxious to avoid unleashing the zombie horde again, hence its very strict policies about naming companies or individuals.

Nicksil|7 years ago

That's far from a Reddit-specific thing. Granted, it occurs on Reddit, but the behavior is observed throughout all "social media."

i4blux|7 years ago

Calling those who did the Boston Marathon detective work "Reddit" is like calling those who hailed the NZ mosque shooter "4chan".

lozenge|7 years ago

So that the legal advice subreddit is still full of people who want legal advice instead of just people who want to give negative PR to terrible businesses.