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One of these subreddits, r/shitniggerssay, was banned in June 2015 at the same time as r/fatpeoplehate. Many of the posters on these subreddits were formerly involved with r/niggers. Following the ban of r/niggers, the subreddit r/Coontown grew to become the most popular 'Chimpire' site, with over 15,000 members at its peak.

Reddit general manager Erik Martin noted that the subforum was given multiple chances to comply with site rules, noting that 'users can tell from the amount of warnings we extended to a subreddit as clearly awful as r/niggers that we go into the decision to ban subreddits with a lot of scrutiny'.

In June 2013, the subreddit r/niggers was banned from Reddit for engaging in vote manipulation, incitements of violence, and using racist content to disrupt other communities. The term 'Chimpire' refers to a collection of subreddits and affiliated websites that promoted anti-black racism, including frequent use of racial slurs. The community of the subreddit later migrated to an instance of Lemmy, a Reddit alternative.

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The community had 160,000 regulars before being banned on June 29, 2020, because they 'consistently host rule-breaking content and their mods have demonstrated no intention of reining in their community.' Previously, the community had been quarantined for content that promotes violence. R/ChapoTrapHouse was a subreddit dedicated to the leftist podcast Chapo Trap House which is associated with the term dirtbag left. The subreddit was banned in 2019, after violating Reddit's content policy with respect to bullying and harassment. The subreddit's leaders decided to ban individuals advocating for murder. R/Braincels was the most popular subreddit for incels, or 'involuntary celibates', after r/Incels (see below) was banned, gaining 16,900 followers by April 2018. Following the ban, the community's founder rebooted the subreddit under the name r/beatingwomen2 in an attempt to circumvent the ban, but was banned afterwards. The community, which featured graphic depictions of violence against women, was banned after its moderators were found to be sharing users' personal information online, and collaborating to protect one another from sitewide bans. On June 9, 2014, a subreddit called r/beatingwomen was closed by Reddit. Banned subredditsīanned subreddits refers to subreddits that Reddit shuts down indefinitely. Since 2018, subreddits are allowed to appeal their quarantine. In addition, quarantined subreddits do not appear in non-subscription based (aggregate) feeds such as r/all in order to prevent accidental viewing, do not generate revenue, and their user count is not visible. Visiting or joining a quarantined subreddit requires bypassing a warning prompt. In 2015, Reddit introduced a quarantine policy to make visiting certain subreddits more difficult. This started discussion in the media about the ethics of anonymity and outing on the Internet. The r/Creepshots backlash prompted a Gawker exposé of one of the subreddit's moderators by Adrian Chen, which revealed the real-life identity of the user behind the account, Michael Brutsch. Another controversial subreddit, r/Creepshots, devoted to revealing or suggestive photos of women taken without their awareness or consent, occurred a year after r/jailbait's closure. The subreddit r/jailbait, devoted to suggestive or revealing photos of underage girls, was one of the most prominent subreddits on the site before it was closed down in October 2011, following a report by CNN.

( April 2022) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭontroversial Reddit communities are communities on the social news site Reddit (known as 'subreddits') devoted to explicit, violent, or hateful material that have been the topic of controversy. This article may require copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone, or spelling.