Reddit bans The Atlantic, Businessweek, others in major anti-spam move

Re:Reddit bans The Atlantic, Businessweek, others in major a... by creativityland on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @06:24PM (#4108799)

This worries me. I'd love to hear an official statement on this from Reddit.

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Re:Reddit bans The Atlantic, Businessweek, others in major a... by skeletonjelly on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @06:52PM (#4108894)

I'm not sure what the deleted comment said but there is plenty of official reddit admins commenting in the linked thread

http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/v03qc/physor...

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Re:Reddit bans The Atlantic, Businessweek, others in major a... by creativityland on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @07:11PM (#4108969)

The comment looked at the relationships of the banned sites and their competitive nature with the other Condé Nast properties, and how they are in fact some of the biggest competitors to these said properties.

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Re:Reddit bans The Atlantic, Businessweek, others in major a... by timdorr on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @07:53PM (#4109108)

But reddit isn't owned by Condé Naste anymore: http://blog.reddit.com/2011/09/independence.html

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Re:Reddit bans The Atlantic, Businessweek, others in major a... by creativityland on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @08:01PM (#4109136)

reddit Inc. is now owned by Advance Publications (which also owns Condé Nast)

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Re:Reddit bans The Atlantic, Businessweek, others in major a... by maxerickson on Thursday June 14, 2012 @09:59AM (#4111348)

Do you really think they are that out of touch with their capricious user base?

They would have to be barking mad to think they would benefit from trying to control the site in favor of Advance.

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