Reddit is taking a firm stance against bullying, harassment, and content that encourages violence, and will hide the worst content from its site. Today new CEO Steve Huffman announced a new slate of moderation policies and is now holding an AMA to discuss them, which is important considering they’re rather vague to begin with.
What’s new is the NSFW tag, which stands for “Not Safe For Work”, which will now be applied to content that “violates a common sense of decency” in addition to pornography as Reddit did before. To view content with this classification, users will now bed required to be logged in, must opt in to seeing the content, it will not appear in search results or public listings, and it will generate no revenue for Reddit.
Huffman also reiterated the site prohibits spam, anything illegal, sexually suggestive content featuring minors, and publishing people’s private information. Most relevant to today’s changes are that it continues to ban:
Anything that incites harm or violence against an individual or group of people
Anything that harasses, bullies, or abuses an individual or group of people (these behaviors intimidate others into silence)
Huffman explains that this just reinforces Reddit’s existing policy, noting “This is basically what we have right now. I’d appreciate your thoughts. A very clear line is important and our language should be precise.”
On what Subreddits will be banned or hidden, Huffman says “/r/rapingwomen will be banned. They are encouraging people to rape. /r/coontown will be reclassified. The content there is offensive to many, but does not violate our current rules for banning.” The former violates Reddit’s policy banning people from inciting violence, which Huffman details as including “death threats, inciting rape”. The latter will be classified as NSFW and will have its visibility restricted.
For example, regarding what will get banned Huffman says “It’s ok to say, “I don’t like this group of people.” It’s not ok to say, “I’m going to kill this group of people.”
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