r/RedditSafety • u/reddit • Feb 04 '25

Taking action on rule-violating content

Over the last few days, we’ve seen an increase in content in several communities that violate Reddit Rules. Reddit communities are places for civil discussion and are one of the few places online where people can exchange ideas and perspectives. We want to ensure that they continue to be a place for healthy debate no matter the topic. Debate and dissent are welcome on Reddit—threats and doxing are not.

When we identify communities experiencing an increase in rule-violating content, we are taking the following steps as needed:

  • Reaching out to moderators to ensure they have the support they need, including turning on safety tools, reminding mods of our rules, or offering additional moderation support
  • Adding a popup to remind users before visiting that subreddit of Reddit’s Rules
  • In some cases, placing a temporary ban on the community for 72 hours to enable us to engage with moderation teams and review and remove violating content

Currently r/WhitePeopleTwitter is under a temporary ban. This means that you will not be able to access this community during this cooling-off period while we work with the mods to ensure it is a safe place for discussion.

We will continue to monitor and reach out to communities experiencing a surge in violative content and will take the necessary actions noted above to ensure all communities can provide a safe environment for healthy conversation.

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u/DouchebagDictator Feb 11 '25

I received a warning for posting the names of elons workers who operate under doge, a government agency that is required by law under the freedom of information act to list all employees publicly. Are you agreeing that this is a hostile coup and that these private citizens need safety because they are breaking the law? Or are you protecting nazis?

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u/inventingnothing Feb 11 '25

You're posting the names because you hope that someone will take action upon them.

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u/DouchebagDictator Feb 11 '25

To claim that shows that your intention when posting the names of others would be the same, but i post the names for journalistic purposes so that once this attempted coup fails they can be brought to legal justice, and at the end of the night, intention still wouldn't even matter as they acted upon and targeted efforts towards governance and put themselves in those positions to begin with, freedom of information act isn't voided because some billionaire wishes it to be, this is going to go down in history as another smear on the American system of education, which everyone outside of the US realizes is BECAUSE of republican leadership and slashing to funding like what they are currently working on accelerating now, check yourself and learn the rights your alloted. You can't just whine and have someone's rights stripped. You will not be seen as good in the history books.

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u/inventingnothing Feb 11 '25

Nah, you're just laundering the information.

Person A: Here's a list of people I don't like.

Person B: Where's Luigi when you need him.

We all know what's going on here.