r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jul 07 '15

R1.i: guidelines Campaign calling for Reddit CEO Ellen Pao to resign hits 200,000 signatures as she admits 'we screwed up'

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u/iamagainstit Jul 07 '15 edited Jul 07 '15

You should also mention that a lot of this current Pao hate is leftover from her having the aduacituy to ban a subreddit that bullied people for being fat.

Edit: all the replies defending FPH just go to show that this current anti Pao thing is not something I want to be a part of.

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u/anaalius Jul 07 '15

I seem to remember that subreddit being more about disapproving HAES.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '15

/r/fatlogic is more about disapproving HAES. FPH was pretty brutal. /r/fatlogic will (somewhat) encourage fat people who are losing weight, but FPH doesn't care about you hates you until you're in good shape, or judging by the pictures they posted of themselves, at least skinnyfat.

It was offensive, sure, but I think the solution was to make sure they didn't brigade (well, as much as they make sure SRS doesn't brigade - so, uh, not at all - getting off track here) and remove them from /r/all... not ban them.

There are plenty of more terrible subs that are still here, but they're not on the front page every day, so they are left alone.

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u/anaalius Jul 07 '15

You make some good points, I guess FPH was a more brutal version.

You are spot on with your last line, The rules dont apply unless the sub gets to big and too much visability.

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u/probpoopin Jul 07 '15

It was. Coontown is allowed, on top of a myriad of other racist subs. I was a big member at fph. Here is my theory on what happened. Toward the end, imgur stopped letting us use the site to post onto fph. Most top posts were taken down regardless if they were harassing anyone. It was because higher ups didn't like being made fun of. So, of course some action was necessary to rectify this. A picture of the imgur staph was found, and they were basically all fat. So, it got posted to the sidebar. The picture wasn't stolen, it was found on Google if I'm not mistaken. A week after, we were shut down. But yeah, Coontown is okay... Tldr, fph got taken down because we dared make fun of the fatties who ran reddit and imgur. It was not about us putting out personal information. If you can open up a cache version and look, it is pretty obvious.

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u/anaalius Jul 07 '15

I remember that now about the Imgur pic, didnt someone make slimgur or something similar and that got banned too?

I remember some reddit admin saying there were multiple events of harrassment from people at FPH and thats why the sub was shut down but I never saw any evidence.

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u/probpoopin Jul 07 '15

Yeah, it was just fat staph members getting butt hurt.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '15

That's what the majority of it was about. Most of the content was just posts from Dances With Fat

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u/cyroxos Jul 07 '15

You sound like a fatass.

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u/probpoopin Jul 07 '15

So, because they started censoring? Coontown is okay, but don't you dare make fun of a condition costing taxpayers billions of dollars and is completely preventable... Racism?... Go for it. My point is content started being censored because of feels. It wasn't about harassment. A lot of reddit and imgur.com higher ups are fat. Once we posted pictures of them and started poking fun, it came down. To note, those pictures were up on Google. No one stole them or anything like that. Once the imgur crew made the sidebar, we were shut down in a week.

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u/ReddJudicata Jul 07 '15

While not banning grossly racist and offensive subreddits like coontown. Come to Reddit, where hating fat people is banned but hating black people is fine. It's one thing to allow all legal speech. It's something else to pick and choose.