It will take us a few days to get this built, and we will subsequently evaluate the usefulness of this feature." Reddit initially resisted user protests
Reddit also said it is building "a new reporting feature for moderators to allow them to better provide us signal when they see community interference. Quarantined subreddits are still accessible after users see a warning and opt in, and Reddit probably prefers to avoid naming them because that could give them more traffic. Reddit said the 54 newly quarantined COVID-denial subreddits were penalized for breaking Rule 1," which bans harassment, bullying, and incitement of violence or promoting hate "based on identity or vulnerability." Reddit's post did not include a list of the 54 communities, and a spokesperson declined to say which subreddits were quarantined. r/NoNewNormal is the only subreddit in our list of high-signal subs where we have identified this behavior and it is one of the largest sources of community interference we surfaced as part of this work (we will be investigating a few other unrelated subreddits as well).Īlthough not mentioned in Reddit's announcement, a subreddit called CoronavirusConspiracy was also banned yesterday "due to being unmoderated." That community was already quarantined last year because it "may contain misinformation or hoax content." Advertisement This behavior continued even after a warning was issued from our team to the Mods. However, in this case, we found very clear signals indicating that r/NoNewNormal was the source of around 80 brigades in the last 30 days (largely directed at communities with more mainstream views on COVID or location-based communities that have been discussing COVID restrictions). Claims of "brigading" are common and often hard to quantify.
While we want to be a place where people can explore unpopular views, it is never acceptable to interfere with other communities. NoNewNormal was banned not for spreading misinformation but for breaking Reddit's rule against "brigading," which refers to members of one subreddit conducting "targeted interference" in other subreddits. In a post titled " COVID denialism and policy clarifications," Reddit said it also quarantined "54 additional COVID-denial subreddits." While NoNewNormal was taken off Reddit entirely, quarantining a subreddit imposes restrictions that "prevent its content from being accidentally viewed by those who do not wish to do so." Reddit yesterday banned r/NoNewNormal, a hub of anti-mask and anti-vaccine posts, after a protest against the platform's refusal to take more aggressive action against COVID misinformation.
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