Those are prime examples of shitty, distasteful communities, but are they examples of leaking over into other mediums to make threats or bully?
- Were the parents of the deceased ever raided and harassed on facebook?
- Was the husband of the dead wife bullied on twitter because the mods posted their handle?
- Did the black man receive PMs threatening violence?
Reddit admins banned these subreddits because they said they had clearly identifiable instances and patterns of person to person abuse. That's the point you're missing.
Edit: I'm not sure why bhayden deleted their comments
The thing is there were many readers of FPH (150k subscribers and probably way more readers as people were afraid to subscribe/comment as it could get you automatically banned from other subreddits) so naturally they participated in different subreddits as well.
I remember there was no (at least for a short time I was reading it) calls for brigading and linking to other parts of reddit was prohibited.
For example, I think that health minister shouldn't be fat and fat health minister calling for cigarette ban is comedy in the making and mockery of the position.
With views like that I am likely to read r/fatlogic or r/FPH from time to time and even subscribe to them. I will make comments expressing my views in other subreddits as well and as such views are rare enough it's natural to link me with above mentioned communities or say that I am "coming from them to comment".
The problem is if it's then treated as brigadding. It isn't, there are just many people with politically incorrect views and they tend to gravitate to subreddits where they can express them without being automatically downvoted to death as is the case in popular subreddits. Once such subreddit becomes popular (and FPH was one of the most active subreddit on the whole site during the week it was banned) eveything can be labelled brigadding.
bduerst|10 years ago
- Were the parents of the deceased ever raided and harassed on facebook?
- Was the husband of the dead wife bullied on twitter because the mods posted their handle?
- Did the black man receive PMs threatening violence?
Reddit admins banned these subreddits because they said they had clearly identifiable instances and patterns of person to person abuse. That's the point you're missing.
Edit: I'm not sure why bhayden deleted their comments
DanBC|10 years ago
They examples you mention are repulsive, but they stay in those subs. The people don't brigade en-mass to harass people.
And your repeated use of "fat jokes" doesn't change what actually happened.
bluecalm|10 years ago
I remember there was no (at least for a short time I was reading it) calls for brigading and linking to other parts of reddit was prohibited.
For example, I think that health minister shouldn't be fat and fat health minister calling for cigarette ban is comedy in the making and mockery of the position.
With views like that I am likely to read r/fatlogic or r/FPH from time to time and even subscribe to them. I will make comments expressing my views in other subreddits as well and as such views are rare enough it's natural to link me with above mentioned communities or say that I am "coming from them to comment".
The problem is if it's then treated as brigadding. It isn't, there are just many people with politically incorrect views and they tend to gravitate to subreddits where they can express them without being automatically downvoted to death as is the case in popular subreddits. Once such subreddit becomes popular (and FPH was one of the most active subreddit on the whole site during the week it was banned) eveything can be labelled brigadding.
unknown|10 years ago
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