As reddit is an US company and there seems to be some politics involved , i'll post this here as it seems to fit more.
Today, i checked the CDDA reddit (CDDA is one of the Cataclysm survival roguelike game variants for people that never adventured in the upper boards) .
And noticed the whole sub was set to Private (so to read you have to log in), at the time i write this, it still is :
https://old.reddit.com/r/cataclysmdda/On that page there's link that's supposed to explain why it's set to Private :
https://old.reddit.com/user/Blank-Cheque/comments/mbmthf/why_is_this_subreddit_private_see_here_for_answers/If you've been linked to this page, you likely tried to view a subreddit that's been made private. You may be asking yourself "Why can't I look at teh memes and teh cat gifs??" I'll tell you why, young redditor:
It's because one of reddit's new employees is a supporter of child rape, and the mods of the subreddit you're attempting to view think that's bad. They also think it's bad for reddit to be censoring any mention of this across the site, including banning people just for saying the name of said admin in a completely unrelated context.
That page also give the following given link for more complete information :
https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/mbeycw/whats_the_deal_with_rukpolitics_going_private_and/The situation is as follows, the moderators of /r/Ukpolitics set the subreddit to private last night. This was not a decision they took lightly, but one that was made to protect both the users and moderators of /r/ukpolitics.
A moderator posted an article from the Spectator - which contained a three-word mention, in passing, of a minor British public figure ( who was expelled from both the Liberal Democrats and Green Party) - this moderator was permanently suspended from Reddit (and later reinstated after we contacted the admins) for "doxxing" as a result.
As they had no idea what had happened, or why posting this article resulted in a permanent suspension, the mods of /r/Ukpolitics took the emergency step of making the subreddit private and immediately contacting the admins for clarification. They took this step to protect both the users of the subreddit, and themselves, from further action by the Reddit admin staff.
It later became apparent that Reddit has hired the individual as an Reddit admin, and were banning people from discussing the employees past to protect their employee from harassment.
Like the /r/Ukpolitics mods we would ask the following, in order to protect your account from getting terminated by Reddit:
• Do not name this individual, at all. Doing so may result in your account being banned by the admins.
We are obviously extremely concerned by these developments and expect Reddit to explain this situation.
The usual subreddit rules and Reddit-wide ToS apply.
Checking the comments of this article, there are a lot of users that do not care about being banned anymore and point to who is the individual in question that has been hired as a reddit admin so you can check the individual wikipedia entry , and wow if it's true ...
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(edit : in case things aren't as true as they appear to be, i'll remove the individual name, but you can check it on the comments in the page
i linked (it's easy to spot it as the name is repeated all over the comments) and check the wikipedia entry yourself
Looks like in those "give people a 2nd, 3rd or 4th chance" situation that reddit company decided to choose the very wrong hill to go die on it.
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