Reddit will punish hundreds of 'toxic users' and hide some posts from pro-Trump community
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said in an announcement today
that the site will take action against hundreds of its "most toxic
users," and will make changes to prevent some posts from its popular
pro-Donald Trump subreddit r/the_donald from appearing on one of the
site's main hubs.
The news follows controversial actions by Huffman, who admitted last week to covertly editing comments
that criticized him, replacing his username in the comments with those
of moderators for r/the_donald. The blog post includes another lengthy
apology about the incident, but also says the site "cannot tolerate" the
group's behavior any more. Huffman writes that the subreddit, which has
been known to use the site's "sticky" feature to push its posts up the
site's rankings, will have its sticky posts removed from r/all — a major
section near the site's front page. (The site will also introduce
filtering options to r/all.)
"More than anything, I want Reddit to heal, and I want our country to
heal, and although many of you have asked us to ban the r/the_donald
outright, it is with this spirit of healing that I have resisted doing
so," Huffman writes. "If there is anything about this election that we
have learned, it is that there are communities that feel alienated and
just want to be heard, and Reddit has always been a place where those
voices can be heard."
The article was published on : theverge
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