Targeting / HarassmentReddit bans anyone for mentioning their new admin Ashton "Aimee" Challenor's name • /s/WatchRedditDie

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[–]Rag3 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Challenor has been fired.

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/mcisdf/an_update_on_the_recent_issues_surrounding_a/

We would like to give you all an update on the recent issues that have transpired concerning a specific Reddit employee, as well as provide you with context into actions that we took to prevent doxxing and harassment.

As of today, the employee in question is no longer employed by Reddit. We built a relationship with her first as a mod and then through her contractor work on RPAN. We did not adequately vet her background before formally hiring her.

We’ve put significant effort into improving how we handle doxxing and harassment, and this employee was the subject of both. In this case, we over-indexed on protection, which had serious consequences in terms of enforcement actions.

On March 9th, we added extra protections for this employee, including actioning content that mentioned the employee’s name or shared personal information on third-party sites, which we reserve for serious cases of harassment and doxxing. On March 22nd, a news article about this employee was posted by a mod of r/ukpolitics. The article was removed and the submitter banned by the aforementioned rules. When contacted by the moderators of r/ukpolitics, we reviewed the actions, and reversed the ban on the moderator, and we informed the r/ukpolitics moderation team that we had restored the mod. We updated our rules to flag potential harassment for human review. Debate and criticism have always been and always will be central to conversation on Reddit—including discussion about public figures and Reddit itself—as long as they are not used as vehicles for harassment. Mentioning a public figure’s name should not get you banned.

We care deeply for Reddit and appreciate that you do too. We understand the anger and confusion about these issues and their bigger implications. The employee is no longer with Reddit, and we’ll be evolving a number of relevant internal policies.

We did not operate to our own standards here. We will do our best to do better for you.

[–]Happy_Blueberry3910[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

One of the comments:

Wait, so you knew about all this shit on the 9th and did nothing?

and another:

Stop calling it doxxing when the person in question was literally a political candidate, making them a public figure. You guys are so full of shit honestly.

one more:

Reddit was perfectly willing to let /r/jailbait continue to exist until the news got wind of it. Sounds like you were operating perfectly to your own standards.

+1:

She's not Voldemort, just say her fucking name, you cowards.

and the last one:

Bring back the subs for women you banned, such as PCOS, and the sub for ovarian cancer, because apparently, talking about an ovary is hate speech. The lesbian sub. Bring back all the women centered subs, that we know, YOU removed, because this person was actively involved in their removal.

Talking about cervical cancer is not an attack or phobic on anyone.Talking about menstrual cycles is not an attack, or phobic, or hate speech. It should not result in people getting banned, doxxed, and canceled.

Being a lesbian is not phobic. Being a straight woman is not phobic. Being a bisexual woman is not phobic.