Daily Bard Digest 2024-07-05

At 2024-07-05T05:39:59+00:00 on /r/changemyview with a score of yall:

If AgainstHateSubreddits violated the User Agreement, Content Policies, Sitewide Rules, or Moderator Code of Conduct, then Reddit would have shuttered us years ago —

But AHS doesn't violate the User Agreement, Content Policies, Sitewide Rules, or Moderator Code of Conduct. AHS is a group of people who documented the violent hate speech in hate group subreddits — which were, overwhelmingly, right-wing terrorist groups and White Identity Extremism groups — and we demanded a Sitewide Rule Prohibiting the Promotion of Hatred Based On Identity or Vulnerability.

And on June 08, 2020, Spez agreed. This is what he told AgainstHateSubreddits:

We shared our thoughts and intentions last Friday, June 6; your list and our list have a high amount of overlap. We'd like to show progress with what we do in the coming weeks rather than what we say. I'm looking forward to speaking directly with those of you participating in the Mod Councils. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and for all you do for your communities.

In the four years since, we've asked for, and gotten, a Moderator Code of Conduct — one which results in hate group operation teams being sitewide suspended and thereby decimating their ability to run networks of hate groups. In November 2022, the Moderator Code of Conduct instituted a rule against Community Interference.

The rule against Community Interference means that harassment groups set up to Make Reddit Die by extorting and intimidating moderators and communities, get kicked off the site.

Today, with Reddit Inc taking responsibility for a set of Acceptable Use Policies that shut down Domestic Violent Extremism, Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremism, Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism, mafias, and other sociopaths from holding Reddit hostage, AHS serves as a guide and assistant to help people report those groups directly to Reddit, and a library of how bad it used to be back then —

So no one can get away with lying about it.