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@Aoidh I can't find any non-reddit sources to support this yet. The subreddit itself is self-explanatorily controversial (though I know this doesn't help my case). I'll keep this on my radar in case something manifests. Thank you!
Wasn't able to find a single source for this. I feel there are many more subreddits that are controversial that cant and won't be added because a news site did not mention them Lil Sad Lil Happy (talk) 04:19, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Taken from the (currently) 4th paragraph: "Critics argue that while concerned Redditors and moderators often report these subs, they often remain open until a specific incident, or the actions of an individual, forces them to come under more intense scrutiny and requires administrators to decide between allowing distasteful content or suppressing dangerous or destructive communities."
How come this article mentions "critics" who think subs they don't like can't be banned fast enough - without even providing a single source for those "critics" in the entire paragraph - while completely ignoring the vast amounts of other "critics" who criticize the censorship? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.108.55.24 (talk) 18:59, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not done This is a general complaint, not a specific request. If you are interested in adding information about "criticism of censorship", then you need to find reliable, independent sources that document and explain it. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 03:07, 11 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Should several subreddits dedicated to pooping and farting (such as r/ratemypoo and r/cutegirlspooping) be added?
The short answer is "no". The longer answer id also "no", but points at things like the Human feces article to demonstrate that they are not remotely equivalent. However it does raise questions about what you are doing on reddit looking for this stuff to be offended by then come to wikipedia and genuinely compare watching people die with people taking pictures of their poos for amusement. I don't think I have any interest looking at cutegirlspooping but it appears to be an incredibly niche reddit forum and I wonder how you found your way there. Koncorde (talk) 10:41, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Some of the additions and omissions here are, frankly, ridiculous. BPT shouldn't be here at all and is only considered controversial to racists. Similarly, there's dozens of active hate subreddits with evidence of their hate documented all over the internet (Europe, PoliticalCompassMemes, TrueUnpopularOpinion, and more). r/AgainstHateSubreddits does a really good job at documenting them. This page seems to heavily imply that there's some form of symmetry between the left-wing additions and the right-wing additions. This is not the case. 2603:8000:7F0:B1D0:756C:F143:D90:C5A1 (talk) 16:46, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
At the very least it needs to be acknowledged that this is not an exhaustive list and the criteria for choosing entries is different than the criteria for other categories. Banned subreddits have at least one nondebatable feature: they were banned. The active list is more subjective because the only commonality is that some people don't like them, which arguably applies to every subreddit of a certain size. And if we somehow made the active list exhaustive with strict criteria, it would still be excessively long.
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Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 22:59, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
Not done This is a general complaint, not a specific request. If you are interested in adding information about "criticism of censorship", then you need to find reliable, independent sources that document and explain it. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 03:07, 11 October 2024 (UTC)