[fragsworth]

They should have handled the /r/fatpeoplehate problem by hiding them from /r/all. Then nobody will see the subreddit unless they directly go to it and/or subscribe to it.

What they actually did reeks of incompetence. The reaction they got from banning the subreddit was entirely predictable, and because of this, gives the impression that they're pretty far disconnected from their users. It doesn't bode well for the long-term success of the site.

[lingben]

Totally agree. Whoever made that decision proved that they are absolutely not the right person or persons to be at the helm of reddit.

Not only that, apart from the decision, the way that it was implemented was so tone-deaf and juvenile that it went beyond mere incompetence.

For example, take a look at the announcement where they tried to outline the rationale for the decision and their methods. When they were bombarded with polite and sharp questions about their hypocrisy they avoided any response.

[sanswork]

The thing is the people that are upset and claiming this is the end of reddit are actually the ones that are disconnected from what most users want as evidenced by the fact that almost no one but a small vocal minority in a few places on reddit care anymore and when they try to get support in more popular/general focus subreddits they are almost unanimously being downvoted or disagreed with.

[fragsworth]

> no one but a small vocal minority in a few places on reddit

Here is a front-page /r/news post about Ellen Pao: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/3a85no/ellen_pao_must...

Read the comments. This is not a "small vocal minority". It's pretty much the entire fucking user base.

[sanswork]

A vocal minority doesn't become a majority because they flood a thread about their current hate target.

[wvenable]

I think you vastly misunderstand the size of reddit's userbase. Furthermore, it's been my experience that a small vocal minority produce significantly more content than the average user. And the single largest group of people with enough time to post all the time are children.

[bluecalm]

Most users don't care about most subreddits. That's the way any big forum with many sub-forums work. It's true that you get downvoted on Reddit for posting anything even mildly politically incorrect which is another problem with it - it's not a place to have any sensible political/worldview discussion anymore.

[DanBC]

> It's true that you get downvoted on Reddit for posting anything even mildly politically incorrect

That's untrue and I'm not sure how you come to that conclusion.

The whole point of SRS is to highlight "politically incorrect" posts that have many upvotes and few downvotes.

[DanBC]

> They should have handled the /r/fatpeoplehate problem by hiding them from /r/all. Then nobody will see the subreddit unless they directly go to it and/or subscribe to it.

FPH brigades. FPH brigades other subreddits, and also other forums.

[s73v3r]

What about the brigading going on? If they had simply stayed in their little corner, no one would have cared. But they didn't.