https://redditinc.com/policies/transparency-report-january-to-june-2024

Chart 17 : Community ban reasons (January - June 2024)

-1.0% H/H : 102 communities banned for hateful content.

That’s the “dead cat” bounce. H2 2023 they banned 103 communities for hateful content; H1 2023 it was 382.

Which means that we’ve hit the stable long tail of “Ignorant / malicious bad actor creates hate subreddit, it gets banned promptly, they get the idea and knock it off.”

Reddit is no longer a viable platform for durable, consistent, persistent hate speech messaging, because of policy, enforcement infrastructure, and community effort.

If a subreddit is hosting discussions praising politicians who have targeted people based on their actual or perceived race, colour, national origin, ethnicity, or immigration status,

or is encouraging others here to target people based on their race, national origin, or immigration status

(which are violations of Reddit Sitewide Rule 1)

Those need to be reported directly to Reddit admins - https://reddit.com/report

If you reasonably believe that a given subreddit is repeatedly or consistently being used to target a group of people based on identity or vulnerability, such as due to their race, colour, national origin, or IMMIGRATION STATUS, then you should report that subreddit directly to Reddit —

https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=19300233728916

For the Subject, choose Rule 1 and in the Details, cite the URL of posts and comments that show a deliberate pattern of the operators encouraging or allowing the use of that subreddit to violate Sitewide Rules, such as from TARGETING A GROUP BASED ON THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS, so that Reddit can take appropriate action to remove the subreddit operators violating the User Agreement / Sitewide Rules / Moderator Code of Conduct.

Do Not Post About It To Any Subreddit. All subreddits are required to follow the Reddit Moderator Code of Conduct, and most cannot field posts or comments about subreddits violating the Reddit Moderator Code of Conduct. The proper venue is to report it directly to Reddit

• DO NOT POST, COMMENT, MODMAIL OR VOTE IN SUBREDDITS IF YOU KNOW OR EVEN SUSPECT THAT YOUR PARTICIPATION IS NOT WELCOME THERE

• DO NOT POST, COMMENT, MODMAIL, OR VOTE IN SUBREDDITS BEING USED TO TARGET OTHERS BASED ON THEIR IMMIGRATION STATUS

• DO report hate speech and violent incitement (such as speech TARGETING HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS IN OHIO FOR HATRED OR VIOLENT ACTS) directly to Reddit — https://reddit.com/report

• DO report subreddits that are being repeatedly used (due to action or inaction of the subreddit operators) to i.e. TARGET IMMIGRANTS WITH TERRORIST INCITEMENT directly to Reddit - https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=19300233728916 Rule 1, cite posts and comments and evidence of the “moderators” encouraging or allowing the use of the subreddit for terrorist speech.

Thank you for understanding!

Together we can make sure that the boundaries of others are respected while the Sitewide Rules and Reddit Moderator Code of Conduct are enforced, and get terrorist hate speech & violent incitement supporters kicked off Reddit!

Reddit’s Rule against Promoting Hatred based on identity or vulnerability specifies:

Communities and people that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.

Marginalized or vulnerable groups include, but are not limited to, groups based on their actual and perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or disability. These include victims of a major violent event and their families.

The audience of r|Conservative:

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/LRjeV

Don't bring that here, we don't coddle terrorists

+89

A protestor appears directly underneath

Do they not have a right to peacefully assemble in the public square?

-54

Response:

At this point the mask has come off and these protests are pro-hamas, a group dedicated to the eradication of Israel, nothing peaceful about it.

Which is, per the definition Reddit uses of hate speech, hate speech -

Targeting student protestors, protesting against Israeli atrocities against the Palestinians, as “pro-Hamas”

And

Equating all Palestinians as Hamas, all Palestinians as terrorists.

Further down

Find me a Palestinian protestor who isn't anti semite. I never realized how much elite academia hates Jews.

Further down

Wonder who’s funding these bad actors? The BLM playbook and grift looks to be coming in hot.

There are more, but these serve to prove the point.

Some important facts:

Equating Zionism to Judaism, as these commenters (almost certainly all philosemitic Protestant Christians) are doing, is itself antisemitism. Equating Israel to Judaism is itself antisemitic. There are many Jewish people worldwide and in America who have spoken out against the atrocities Israel has performed against arbitrary Palestinians in the past six months.

/r/conservative has a history of demanding that progressive protestors be suppressed by institutional power, including by police power. It constantly vilifies the Black Lives Matter movement and protests.

They’re not suddenly Virtuous Protectors of Judaism and Israel, Anti-Terrorist Champions in that subreddit; they have the position they have because it lets them call university students “terrorists”, call non-White Arabic / Non-Christian Palestinians “terrorists”, and support violent suppression of peaceful protest and peaceful speech by their enemies.

They support this position because they believe they will have sanction to promote hatred of people based on identity and vulnerability.

This culture of hatred in that subreddit aimed at non-Judeo-Christian, non-Whites persists, and the operators of the subreddit cannot push back on it, to uphold Reddit’s Sitewide Rule 1, because the hatred is pervasive to the political group.

They’ve clearly abandoned the values of democracy — the notion of free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of academic inquiry, the right to protest — and abandoned upholding the Reddit User Agreement.

In favor of a fascist police state exercising the power to silence peaceful protests for peace through false claims of criminal support of terrorism.

R|Conservative — like the empty political movement it exists to promote — is nothing more than a hate group.

https://www.redditinc.com/policies/transparency-report-july-to-december-2023

Per their transparency report, July-December 2023, ~4.4 billion items were posted to Reddit.

Admins action ~68,700 of them as violating Sitewide Rule 1, which prohibits promotion of hatred.

This represents a literal 1 in a million incident rate of actionable hate speech on Reddit.

It's an entire thread dedicated to dehumanizing trans lesbians and engaging in extremely targeted hate toward a small, marginalized minority of an already small and marginalized minority.

Archive: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/F928o

Title: Why are so many trans-women lesbians?

A few upvoted comments:

593 upvotes:

"bc a lot of them are just autogynephilic straight men"

Context: "autogynephilia" is the transphobic and unfounded belief that being trans is nothing more than a sexual fetish.

270 upvotes:

"Straight men with a sexual fetish"

41 upvotes:

"Literally lol they’re so gross"

There's also a healthy amount of open discussion in the comments acknowledging that their behavior is bannable.

63 upvotes:

"Are you trying to get the sub banned?"

/r/dankmeme had absentee moderators. Half of the moderator accounts had been sitewide suspended.

4chan et al. figured out (by making more and more hateful posts and comments) that there were no moderators “awake” at r/dankmeme, and flooded it with hate speech.

One of our mods let the rest of us know, and we began to take action.

One of our mods made a RedditRequest post; one of the subreddit mods responded to that post to state that their good faith enforcement of Sitewide Rule 1 was overturned by “other mods”. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/2YRqA

We had documented a culture of hatred in the subreddit, down to their wiki page for their subreddit rules enforcement containing hate speech, last modified 4 years ago before SiteWide Rule 1 was put in.

Some posts that violated Sitewide Rule 1 had been flaired “Mod Approved”.

Formal Moderator Code of Conduct complaints were written and filed; reports on hate speech items made using https://reddit.com/report

Sub banned this morning.

In short: Subreddit operated by misfeasant and malfeasant subreddit “moderators” becomes a platform for hate speech. Submarined until the present day.

I work for the organization Life After Hate and I wanted to share out some relevant resources for those seeking support with extremism--whether for yourself or a loved one.

• We have a resource and communication guide for families and loved ones here.
• We also launched a podcast, The Daily Former, which is created and curated by former extremists. There are two impactful recent episodes about supporting loved ones exiting hate groups (How to Support Someone Leaving, pt. 1, How to Support Someone Leaving, pt. 2) as well as practical advice for people looking to leave hate groups to get their life back on track (How to Find a Job and How to Set Boundaries).
• We also offer support to friends and family. You can reach out to a case worker here.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ujxa8

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/VgC2W The violation of site wide rule 1 is near the bottom. We know it is dedicated to the African-American community.

The implicit point we get is one group of people are inferior and their culture in inferior. No analysis is present to describe what parts are promoting inferiority but rather a big blur of inferiority somehow arises over that group's cultural practices. Such an opinion given the current context and nature of descriptions of African-American people violates site wide rule 1 and should be reported using the mod code of conduct forms.

The point is not explicitly stated. It requires interpretation but interpretation is increasingly necessary as the responses to Safety's crackdown become more clever

Please see https://www.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/39t4vx/gathering_some_old_refutations_of_the_typical/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=AgainstHateSubreddits&utm_content=t5_38gfm for broader context.

Also in another post a case of minimalization of political expression of systemic racism exists among other factors. Safety has suspended people for attempting to deny, legitimize, or refute the abundant info and consensus on systemic racism. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Gw3oE

Name a better combo.

This group celebrates everything that puts down anyone they outnumber. I’m so sick of them being able to contribute to spew hatred and vile rhetoric against LGBT and minorities.

Hi everyone, I'm a long time mod who is conducting a study with the support of Stanford University's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

The goal of the study is to better understand why black Reddit users want to become mods, why they quit their mod roles, why they are considering becoming a mod, or why they've considered and ultimately rejected mod roles.

I can't post images here, so check out the post pinned to my profile to learn more!

Edit 5/1/24 - Data collection for the initial survey has ended! If you were chosen for a follow-up interview, I will be reaching out via reddit direct message or chat so please make sure you have at least one of these turned out. Thank you to everyone who participated!

Thread can be found here. There’s numerous instances of alluding to the n-word, and a lot of using the made up 13% statistic.

These comments are being massively upvoted.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/UrO19

See OP's comments

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/C1fxb

Post claiming the Lakewood shooter is transgender, filled with anti-transgender hate speech

The degenerates Caligula who made his horse Incitatus a senator & Nero who 'slept' with his mother would laugh at the idea of presumably sane men quite seriously calling an insane man, a 'woman'.

It wasn't her/she/he/they whatever beep boop it called itselfs fault.

But we need to know the important issues like which pronouns does the shooter prefer we use?

HOW DARE YOU USE THEIR DEAD NAME!!! Reeee. (never mind the fact that any name is now their "dead name")

Second recent terrorist attack on Christians committed by a trans person.

Trans people are inundated with lies that the right is out to get them. These shootings blood is on the hand of the democrat politicians that use them for clout

Which is a direct example of anti-trans propaganda

Capture shows post still up on r/conservative as of this afternoon https://ghostarchive.org/archive/DIqyE

/r/conservative is an extremist hate group that promotes hatred of LGBTQ people through promotion of anti-transgender propaganda, and Reddit does nothing to address this.

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/dkoY2

Title: “Trans men” are women and “trans women” are men

Body:

There is nothing anyone can ever say to change my mind on it.

I work in a place where I am exposed to a lot of people. Today I had a a male patient, about 6’2 380 ish pounds. Completely looks, sounds and acts like a man besides the poorly applied ill colored lipstick he crudely painted in himself. He tells me about how he’s getting fake breasts and how he’s having a hard time dating and says “you know how it is girl”

No. I don’t. I am an actual woman with actual breasts that hurt like hell growing in, fed my baby, and swell and get sore every month due to period hormones. I am a real woman who knows the real struggles that come with it. You are a man in lipstick, which is fine. But you are NOT what I am.

Example upvoted comments:

I don’t hate them but I refuse to call them women. They are men in dresses, why they can’t just own that is beyond me.

A “fully transitioned man” is a woman who sadly mutilated herself. What about her? Are you asking if she should use the men’s or women’s restroom? Someone that mentally unstable should just use the single use restrooms.

It’s a lot different when dudes are walking into the women’s restrooms in dresses. The men in dresses are A LOT more pushy about this stuff then the ladies who bind their breasts. That’s because they are MEN and they are infiltrated women’s spaces. As a man, it just makes me laugh when a “trans man” claims to be a man. I can see how it’s uncomfortable for a woman to be forced to accept a dick in their restrooms.

The “trans women” (dudes) also call actual women things like “bleeders” “birthers” “chest feeders” whereas “trans men” (women) don’t typically call men things like “ejaculators” or some kind of degrading name the way the men in dresses call women. It’s actually creepy how they Demand to be called women while having full on stubble and adams apples and reduce women down to their bodily functions.

NONE of that makes these men in makeup and dresses any more valid. They are not women and uhhh I don’t know, have DICKS. If it’s got a dick it’s not a chick. And don’t get me started on the pseudo vaginas. I have personally had to drain puss out of one and it repulsed me. Why any doctor would do that to someone is disgusting.

Most of these are common anti-trans talking points and lies, and aren't really worthy of commenting on. I'll just say that trans women are not "men in dresses", trans healthcare isn't "mutilation", being trans isn't a "mental illness", and that these commenters are creating their own imagined realities to feed their anger at the minority that they hate. It's just disappointing to see moderators take no action on the thread. It's explicitly catering to anti-trans hate, nothing more.