Following six months of internal reviews and a March survey of 15,000 users, reddit's top administrators announced a new initiative to enforce the site's anti-harassment rules above and beyond the site's usual "subreddit" moderation system. The Thursday announcement claimed that "the number one reason redditors do not recommend the site—even though they use it themselves—is because they want to avoid exposing friends to hate and offensive content."
"We’ve always encouraged freedom of expression by having a mostly hands-off approach to content shared on our site," the administrators wrote at reddit's official blog, noting that top-level moderation had previously been limited to concerns of "privacy and safety." The post went on to describe examples of harassment and abuse over the years, including links to other sites that indirectly violated reddit's private-information rules that made users "avoid participating for fear of their personal and family safety."
To change that, the administrators posted a definition of harassment that hadn't previously appeared on the site: "Systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone in a way that would make a reasonable person (1) conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation, or (2) fear for their safety or the safety of those around them." (That definition has yet to be added to reddit's official rules page.) They then encouraged affected users to report offending reddit content—either public or private—directly to the site's highest level contact e-mail address.
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