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  • i208khonsu
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    http://www.reddit.com/r/fatpeoplehate2 reddit works!

    This is not the way you deal with harassment on a forum like reddit. This is what aggravates me most about reddit is that it's now being ran by people who don't understand the Internet. It's also why I have an optimistic outlook for Snapzu. It appears to be ran by people who understand Internet.

    As Pao said they didn't ban the sub because of the offensive content, they banned it because people were posting personally identifiable pictures and the mods weren't up to the task to moderate the forum. They should have suspended the sub for a few days and on the page of suspension page they should have explained why the sub was suspended, given examples of the unpermitted content and explained how to submit the content (censor faces and user names) or if it's something that's simply not permitted that those posts won't be tolerated anymore. Further it should stress that it's their last and only warning.

    Making a global blog post about the sub and telling people not to so something is going to have the exact opposite effect as you intended. In addition to fatpeoplehate2 there are many more fatpeoplehate subs. They just created a hydra that's going to take exponentially more effort to stomp out than taking a day to educate a sub on what won't be tolerated.