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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by fleitz on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:20PM (#9697256)
Why not ban the people organizing these activities rather than the sub? It's a smoke screen for banning ideas.
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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by lukeschlather on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:41PM (#9697356)
If the people organizing the activities are the moderators, how do you ban them without banning the sub?
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Re:Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassment Campaign by fleitz on Wednesday June 10, 2015 @11:47PM (#9697381)
Ban the moderators but not the subs?

Is this some sort of trick physics question?

It seems to me to be possible to have this sort of feature in software... it's like a channel in IRC with out an op.

Also, how is what the mods were doing not a speech issue? If crimes were committed surely reddit was not negligent in reporting these to authorities?

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