The company also said that it has “fallen short” in providing resources and support for Reddit users who have pitched in as content moderators. Reddit also said that its content policies “will never be perfect” and that it needs the help of its users to help monitor the site for hateful content. Reddit said the policies state that “communities and users that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.” It’s unclear why Reddit didn’t ban the r/The_Donald subreddit in the past, but Monday’s move is presumably the result of new content policies. Over the years, community members of the r/The_Donald subreddit have posted various conspiracy theories and content deemed racist, homophobic, antagonistic, and offensive. Occasionally, Reddit has banned some subreddits for violating its content policies, such as in 2017 when it banned a subreddit affiliated with Incels-generally referring to men who blame women for their celibacy-for comments that urged violence against women, among other reasons. Reddit noted that the “vast majority” of the 2,000 now-banned subreddits are inactive and 200 of those subreddits “have more than 10 daily users.”įor years, Reddit has come under fire for failing to address controversial postings that can veer into racist and misogynistic musings. “Until now, we’ve worked in good faith to help them preserve the community as a space for its users-through warnings, mod changes, quarantining, and more,” Reddit said.Īdditionally, the r/ChapoTrapHouse subreddit, associated with the political podcast Chapo Trap House, was also banned, because of similar content violations and its forum moderators showing “no intention of reining in their community,” Reddit said. The r/The_Donald community of Reddit users consistently hosted and upvoted more “rule-breaking content than average” and antagonized other Reddit communities as well as the company itself plus its moderators “have refused to meet our most basic expectations,” the blog post said. The company said Monday in a blog post that it had banned the popular President Donald Trump–related subreddit, along with 2,000 other subreddits, for repeated violations of its newly implemented revamped content policy.
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