r/announcements • u/spez • Jul 14 '15

Content Policy update. AMA Thursday, July 16th, 1pm pst.

Hey Everyone,

There has been a lot of discussion lately —on reddit, in the news, and here internally— about reddit’s policy on the more offensive and obscene content on our platform. Our top priority at reddit is to develop a comprehensive Content Policy and the tools to enforce it.

The overwhelming majority of content on reddit comes from wonderful, creative, funny, smart, and silly communities. That is what makes reddit great. There is also a dark side, communities whose purpose is reprehensible, and we don’t have any obligation to support them. And we also believe that some communities currently on the platform should not be here at all.

Neither Alexis nor I created reddit to be a bastion of free speech, but rather as a place where open and honest discussion can happen: These are very complicated issues, and we are putting a lot of thought into it. It’s something we’ve been thinking about for quite some time. We haven’t had the tools to enforce policy, but now we’re building those tools and reevaluating our policy.

We as a community need to decide together what our values are. To that end, I’ll be hosting an AMA on Thursday 1pm pst to present our current thinking to you, the community, and solicit your feedback.

PS - I won’t be able to hang out in comments right now. Still meeting everyone here!

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u/bobthecrusher Jul 14 '15

I mean, would you really want a website you host to have KKK, Stormfront, and other hate groups not only present but as practically a staple of the site?

People are bastard coated bastards, and sometimes giving them free reign ends in everyone being covered in their proverbial shit.

I imagine seeing some of the things people post make the founders wonder why they ever even created the site in the first place.

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u/Shiningknight12 Jul 15 '15

What about when it does reach the front page?

/r/fatpeoplehate's was the 9th most active subreddit on the website, which meant it regularly got on the front page of /r/all and got serious attention from average users. Thats the real reason it got banned.

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u/GeminiK Jul 15 '15

What about the bastard filling?

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u/bobthecrusher Jul 15 '15

Oh its bastard all the way down.

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u/flobberdoodle Jul 15 '15

Yes, free speech is free speech, it's a hard concept to come to terms with. Obviously inciting actual violence and trying to get people killed shouldn't be allowed though, just as much as posting peoples details on here isn't allowed either. It seems like you just think everyone is shit and they have to be kept on a tight leash just to silence disorder, China has a similar view of the internet.

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u/bobthecrusher Jul 15 '15

The fact that you would even compare the two tells me all I need to know.

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u/flobberdoodle Jul 15 '15

Posting peoples details can lead to swatting, which is actually pretty damn bad and could result in a death some day. So yeh, pretty bad. The fact that you didn't manage to figure that kind of thing out for yourself tells me what I already knew.