The motivation for deleting r/fatpeoplehate was because the admins asserted there were clear and identifiable patterns and instances of person-to-person harassment.
Honestly, I think that's just the excuse they used to pull the trigger on removing a popular but undesirable subreddit from the site. They claim it was about "behavior not content" but immediately banned any subreddits that popped up to replace /r/fatpeoplehate.
They should have just been up front about the reasons for the ban "It was a highly visible subreddit with content we don't agree with."
...if that were their intention, they would've wiped out the many other subreddits that have much more controversial content and fewer subscribers
The difference is that /r/fatpeoplehate was growing fast and regularly appearing on /r/all.
For content bans obviously. We don't want you to post porn here. Banned. Creates new account and posts porn. Banned.
But if I get banned for harassment on Reddit, make a new account and don't harass anybody would I get banned? Probably not.
In addition they banned /r/thinpeoplehate which obviously was satire and did not result in harassing thin people and neither fat people as that content didn't even exist there.
>But if I get banned for harassment on Reddit, make a new account and don't harass anybody would I get banned? Probably not.
Probably not since it's easy to fly under the radar due to the size of the user base. But if you do you can't really complain since you were ban evading.
Ban evasion is a pretty standard reason for getting banned across just about all social networks/forums.
What makes that "ban evasion" though? Specifically I mean. Who is evading what in the case of separate subreddits being created? Is it that anyone that was apart of /r/fatpeoplehate is now never allowed to create a subreddit (because, again, it was claimed the ban was nothing to do with content, only the behavior of the community)?
If I ban you and you create a new account called Goronmon2 would you not accept that you are trying to evade a ban? Pretty obvious right? That is exactly what you did only instead of an account it was with subreddits.
>Is it that anyone that was apart of /r/fatpeoplehate is now never allowed to create a subreddit
No, but they aren't allowed to try and recreate fatpeoplehate because that would be ban evasion.
Honestly, I think that's just the excuse they used to pull the trigger on removing a popular but undesirable subreddit from the site. They claim it was about "behavior not content" but immediately banned any subreddits that popped up to replace /r/fatpeoplehate.
They should have just been up front about the reasons for the ban "It was a highly visible subreddit with content we don't agree with."
...if that were their intention, they would've wiped out the many other subreddits that have much more controversial content and fewer subscribers
The difference is that /r/fatpeoplehate was growing fast and regularly appearing on /r/all.