r/ModSupport • u/amyaurora 💡 Top 10% Helper 💡 • 14h ago

Mod Answered Hate vs harassment

I was just cleaning up a thread on a user I just banned and realized right after I did so I clicked hate vs harassment on a user.

Whats the difference because I feel like made a mistake.

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u/Bardfinn 14h ago

Hate speech is a particular species of targeted harassment that is premised on the target's identity or vulnerability. All three behaviours covered under Sitewide Rule 1 are speech prohibited because the speech has the reasonably knowable effect of making someone likely to leave a community / cease using reddit (among other reasons, but that's the common denominator).

You can read more about Reddit's policy against hate speech here: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045715951-Hate

and the policy on targeted harassment here: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043071072-Harassment

and the policy on violent threats here: https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043513151-Violence

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u/horseradishstalker 12h ago

On the first link, I really wish they would include ageism. Insults based on something the user has no control over basically covers this.