[deong]

Both Facebook and Google have terms of service that ban large classes of abuse that Reddit explicitly permits (or at least permitted until very recent changes). Facebook doesn't allow a "Coontown" group, and Youtube will take down a similarly themed video or channel.

People on Facebook don't see content unless they're somehow connected with it, and Youtube comments, while garbage, are a tiny (or nonexistent) part of most people's interaction with the site.

Reddit is different. The entire site is comments, and at least in some cases, you have organized groups targeting people who weren't even aware of their existence (e.g., the brigading that got fatpeoplehate banned). It's completely fair to say that Reddit faces community problems that go above what Facebook and Google face. Twitter's probably the much better analogy, but PR wise at least, even Twitter's problems are dwarfed by the public perception of Reddit.

[mahranch]

> Facebook doesn't allow a "Coontown" group, and Youtube will take down a similarly themed video or channel.

As far as I know, neither does reddit. They banned those communities a few months ago.

[deong]

Reddit still allows far more leeway than either of the others, but that's why I said "until recently" anyway. Reddit's PR problem was mostly formed prior to that though. Reddit became a place a lot of people only heard about when a story about child porn, upskirt pics, leaked celebrity nude photos, revenge porn, and other socially unacceptable material would make the wider press. The fact that they've made some tiny strides away from that now doesn't immediately fix the PR issue.