The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech [pdf]

Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by gdulli on Monday September 11, 2017 @03:30PM (#15221509)

Reddit is still a cesspool and it's not like those people vanished. But there's a difference between giving those people a home, even if the intent is to quarantine them, and forcing them into the general population where hopefully they get shouted down. It's annoying when they're more visible but they become less of an organized movement.

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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by dibujante on Monday September 11, 2017 @04:13PM (#15221868)

That's one of the arguments of the paper - there's some good evidence that a lot (of course not all) of those accounts simply stopped posting.

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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by beedogs on Monday September 11, 2017 @08:13PM (#15223666)

Because you can just create a new account when your old one gets banned from too many places.

Or dozens of new accounts. It's utterly trivial.

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Re:The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate S... by dibujante on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @02:51AM (#15225309)

The accounts didn't get banned, though - the subreddits did.

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