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When was reddit arbitrarily banning things they don't like?

Reddit still lacks an objective definition for "harassment". (So does the world, I think.)

> When was reddit arbitrarily banning things they don't like?

When they banned five subreddits (actually quite a few more than that, but five were announced), without a clear policy that could be fairly enforced on all subs.

That banning was consistant with existing reddit rules at the time and was not out of the blue. FPH especially had been warned several times about vote brigading; many of the FPH users got shadow bans for vote brigading.

FPH wasn't the only sub banned, and brigading was not mentioned by reddit as a reason for the bans.

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/remov...

And yet ShitRedditSays is allowed to vote brigade as much as it wants.

No, they're not.

Point out vote brigades to the admins and they shadow ban users and the sub risks being banned.

Reddit should just release some charts of brigades from FPH and SRS.

Yea, see, that does not actually happen.

> So does the world

The world relies on case law to resolve ambiguity

Can we agree a large percentage of the Reddit population felt that Reddit Inc acted arbitrarily [in general, not nesc the bans] regardless of your feelings on the matter?

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