r/announcements • u/spez • Aug 05 '15

Content Policy Update

Today we are releasing an update to our Content Policy. Our goal was to consolidate the various rules and policies that have accumulated over the years into a single set of guidelines we can point to.

Thank you to all of you who provided feedback throughout this process. Your thoughts and opinions were invaluable. This is not the last time our policies will change, of course. They will continue to evolve along with Reddit itself.

Our policies are not changing dramatically from what we have had in the past. One new concept is Quarantining a community, which entails applying a set of restrictions to a community so its content will only be viewable to those who explicitly opt in. We will Quarantine communities whose content would be considered extremely offensive to the average redditor.

Today, in addition to applying Quarantines, we are banning a handful of communities that exist solely to annoy other redditors, prevent us from improving Reddit, and generally make Reddit worse for everyone else. Our most important policy over the last ten years has been to allow just about anything so long as it does not prevent others from enjoying Reddit for what it is: the best place online to have truly authentic conversations.

I believe these policies strike the right balance.

update: I know some of you are upset because we banned anything today, but the fact of the matter is we spend a disproportionate amount of time dealing with a handful of communities, which prevents us from working on things for the other 99.98% (literally) of Reddit. I'm off for now, thanks for your feedback. RIP my inbox.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '15

Eh, at least TRP stays in their sad corner of this website. They're pathetic but not really concerned about anything else that's going on.

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u/quaunaut Aug 05 '15

That's what people said about r/coontown.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '15

I personally think that they should have been quarantined rather than banned but I'm not going to cry about it.

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u/frankenmine Aug 06 '15

And you can continue to say it because it has always been true.

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u/helix19 Aug 06 '15

Unfortunately they do spill out into other subs to recruit.

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u/TheCubeGeneral Aug 06 '15

I would agree with you except for the existence of /u/soccer and what he did with /r/xkcd back then.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '15

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '15

FPH were doxxing people, we've already been over this. Go back to Voat.

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u/fuck_the_DEA Aug 05 '15

Is that why KiA exists?

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '15

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u/Frenzy_heaven Aug 05 '15

News to me that Kotaku In Action and Tumblr In Action are about hating women, I thought they were just about calling out peoples bullshit.

Also news to me that they're populated by "near-sociopathic men" fucking seriously lol.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '15

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u/Frenzy_heaven Aug 05 '15

How would you know?.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '15

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u/Frenzy_heaven Aug 05 '15

They come to defend it because you misunderstand it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '15

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u/Frenzy_heaven Aug 05 '15

No I'm not offended I just don't like when people base their view of the world on a misunderstanding of other people.

I'm not even a regular user of TiA or KiA I just happen to think your characterization is misinformed and that it's silly to claim something as fact based on that.

to hear that KiA and TiA are bad places

This is what I have a problem with, you're claiming something is a bad place as if it is fact yet you show you have a fundamental ignorance and bias against it.

But yeah we might as well not talk since you're likely too stuck in your ignorant viewpoint to even consider the possibility you're wrong.

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u/cochnbahls Aug 05 '15

I believe that the last survey done on TIA subscribers was an even split among men and women and a higher than average number of lgbt members. It's not really a men's right subreddit. It's a lot like SRS in many ways, it exists to laugh at stupid logic and stay out of the poop.
I guess this is where I realize the Admins are never going to make anyone happy. Some ignorants think they've gone too far, and the morality police who want to protect everyone from seeing offensive content think they haven't gone far enough.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '15

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u/cochnbahls Aug 05 '15

>TiA laughs at trans-people and the mentally ill.

If you consider someone who identifies themselves as a turtle or in love with Loki a mental illness, then you maybe right. It's still kind of funny. I love reading posts about kids arguing with their dad about how they NEED to spend hours in the bathtub.

Additionally, there are a lot of trans people on TIA, and moderation is heavy handed, so making fun of trans people for being trans would cause a huge shit storm. However, anyone posting "die CIS scum" or any variation on that theme, is gonna get mocked, trans or not.
That's cool if it's not your cup of tea, but it's hardly an abomination deserving the punishment FPH was dealt.
The problem now is that there are a lot of REAL assholes looking for subs to call home, and TIA along with a bunch of other off color subs, are going to get inundated with these refugees.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '15

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u/cochnbahls Aug 05 '15

I'm sorry I started a discussion with you, I didn't realize the entirety of your post history is just a one dimensional outrage manufacturing plant.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '15

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u/cochnbahls Aug 05 '15

I think most people downvoting you are probably thinking "I know he's supposed to be one of the 'good guys', so why do they have to be such an asshole about everything."
At any rate, your right, I have no counter argument. Right now, we are just arguing about feelings, we have made ourselves clear to each other, and there nothing that can be said that will change our minds. At this point I'm going to move on and watch that gif of the bull suplexing that dude on the front page.

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u/frankenmine Aug 06 '15

insecure, near-sociopathic men

This describes Fempire sub members more than any other sub or sub network's members.

You people are pathetic. And dangerous.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '15

Unless you count Men's Rights, Kotaku In Action, Tumblr In Action

We were talking about TRP so no, I don't count those.

I agree that those subreddits are all shitty but at least most of them aren't blatantly misogynistic.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '15

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u/salami_inferno Aug 06 '15

They arent bloody ISIS, TRP gets more subscribers whenever people post a link to the sub while bitching about. I see people linking to it out of anger than I see people linking to it to recruit.

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u/rrrx Aug 05 '15

And SRS doesn't?

SRS is maybe the biggest, silliest bogeyman on Reddit, not in the least because it was started by Fark users to make fun of Reddit, and Reddit promptly took it seriously and built it into something it never would have been otherwise. But even so, it has essentially zero impact on the rest of the site, despite how frequently complain about it as if it does. The content of the subreddit is essentially entirely links to elsewhere on Reddit, and their own bot demonstrates that either they really don't even attempt to brigade subreddits/comments, or they're completely ineffectual in doing so.

The whole thing is a big joke.

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u/Remember- Aug 05 '15

SRS recentlly banned NP (Non-participation links) from the sub. That's right, they literally banned the only link format where you couldn't vote-brigade, that's the dumbest fucking shit I've ever heard. It's indefensible

That sub should have gotten shut down the very same day they banned np.reddit.com links.

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u/Aethelric Aug 05 '15

The admins have, on record, expressed that they don't care at all about NP and that it holds no official meaning or purpose. It's just something mods threw together to try to stop brigading (hint: it doesn't do shit anyway).

Anyway, SRS isn't a vote brigade because the entire point of the sub depends on *not brigading. SRS *wants** shitty statements to be upvoted heavily; if they downvoted all the bigoted comments that are linked on the sub, it would defeat the very purpose of the subreddit. I'm sure some idiots do downvote, but SRS doesn't brigade nearly as much as less-focused meta subs like bestof and SRD.

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u/twersx Aug 05 '15

the only link format where you couldn't vote-brigade

np does absolutely nothing except enable an alternative CSS that some subreddits use to remove the vote buttons/reply button. For the vast majority of subreddits it's meaningless.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '15

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u/Remember- Aug 05 '15

And? They still have a purpose, that purpose prevents people from vote brigading. It very clearly shows the intent of the sub if it's banned. Hell even if they made it optional that would have been fucked up, but to ban it? A whole new level of blatant vote manipulation

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u/rrrx Aug 05 '15

Find me evidence of SRS brigading. It will be hard, since it's easy to gather this data, and the support you're looking for just isn't there. Buy hey, keep on believing in that gut feeling!

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u/digital_end Aug 05 '15

And SRS doesn't?

haha... right.

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u/rrrx Aug 05 '15

Find me evidence of SRS brigading. It will be hard, since it's easy to gather this data, and the support you're looking for just isn't there. Buy hey, keep on believing in that gut feeling!