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In addn to addg a new member to better racially diversify the pany’s board of directors, the self-proclaimed “ont page of the ter” has updated s ntent polici surroundg hate speech and harassment, and veloped a plan to better enforce them. Most notably, has banned over 2,000 subredd muni who had nsistently broken the se’s l, cludg highly-visible muni long acced of fosterg racism and abe like the pro-Tmp fom r/The_Donald and r/GenrCril, a subredd that equently elevated transphobia.</p><p>The move follows a slew of actns on the part of social media pani to fally grapple wh abe on the part of s ers. On Monday the livtreamg webse Twch announced that they’d <a href=">temporarily spend Donald Tmp’s acunt</a> for airg “hateful nduct”; May, Twter began markg tweets om the print that nta misrmatn or promote vlence. Facebook’s ial refal to take siar actns sparked a wispread advertiser boytt this week that has led to <a href=">chaos wh the pany</a> and promis to label hateful ntent on the platform.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>Redd’s recent actns have been precipated by months of revolt among the se’s morators, cludg many who manage of LGBTQ+ subredds. They say that for years, Redd admistrators have failed to help them when they are facg wav of abe. “We adm we have fallen short toward this end,” reads an <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">announcement posted Monday</a> by Redd CEO Steve Huffman. “We are mted to workg wh you to bat the bad actors, abive behavrs, and toxic muni that unrme our missn and get the way of the creativy, discsns, and muni that brg all to Redd the first place.”</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>Toward the end of April, trated by unprecented levels of anti-queer harassment on LGBTQ+ subredds as well as a laggg rponse on the part of se officials, over a hundred of Redd’s morators me together to sign an <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">open letter</a> addrsed to the se’s staff. “We're wrg to you as ers of your platform, as morators of the subredds that drive your platform, and as ncerned izens,” said. “Over the past few days, multiple attacks and brigas have targeted the LGBTQ+ muny on Redd [and] Redd's rponse, or more, lack of rponse, is disappotg to morators, and 's damagg to our muni.”</p><asi aria-hidn="te" class="PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf fQbAzo"><div class="PullQuoteDerativeBorr-sc-iUyOLj fAzNVP"></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx eoUd"><p>“We need human teractn to say: ‘Hey, we've heard you, we're lookg at this now. Do you need support stemmg the flow, do you need more mods, n the Redd [Tst and Safety] team help?'" says Aimee.</p></div></asi><p>The letter was posted to the 500,000-member muny <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">r/LGBT</a> by Aimee, a volunteer morator who go by the ername <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">bpwpb</a> on the platform and asked to only be intified by her first name. Dozens of morators om across the se signed the letter, voicg their support for a more diligent pany rponse fense of “brigas,” or ordated mpaigns of harassment targetg specific subredds or groups of ers.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB kNleGZ sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="k8pwt"></div></div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--display-rail" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--display-rail"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="bvk56l"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK kHBDeH grid grid-margs grid-ems-2 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bjczjj grid-layout--adrail narrow wi-adrail"><div class="GridItem-buujkM stRKV grid--em grid-layout__ntent"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa bectqB body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Aimee says that she and the other morators who oversee r/LGBT had to ban almost 500 ers and lete 1400 posts and 11,000 ments over the urse of April’s anti-LGBTQ+ brigas, a firtorm of hatred that me down over the urse of mere days. That’s about eight tim her ual workload. “They also sent abive and threateng msag to the morators” ntag homophobic and transphobic abe, she says.</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="ajyssk"></div></div><p>“We get a lot of hateful people who show up to try to someone's day,” says Koronic, another r/LGBT morator who asked to be intified by his ername.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>Aimee also not that the past few months have creased the tensy of abe morators mt al wh, likely bee COVID-19 has left many wh more time to spend spewg hate onle.</p><p>Aimee, like other Redd morators, works for ee. She’s been rponsible for the r/LGBT subredd for nearly four years, but durg the recent harassment spike, she beme trated by the lack of rponse seen om Redd’s paid staff. “There is very ltle help available durg brigas,” she says.</p><p>Aimee says that when morators make an ial requt for assistance, they’re often met wh tomatilly generated msag, which she says isn’t helpful. “We need human teractn to say: ‘Hey, we've heard you, we're lookg at this now. Do you need support stemmg the flow, do you need more mods, n the Redd [Tst and Safety] team help?’”</p><asi aria-hidn="te" class="PullQuoteEmbedWrapper-sc-EoVjf fQbAzo"><div class="PullQuoteDerativeBorr-sc-iUyOLj fAzNVP"></div><div class="PullQuoteEmbedContent-sc-kTcfhx eoUd"><p>“As long as there are muni on Redd dited to spreadg hate or otherg margalized groups, and as long as the adms perm dividual ers to preach bigotry, this is gog to keep happeng," said Koronic.</p></div></asi><p>About a month after r/LGBT posted their open letter, another subredd, r/AgastHateSubredds, posted their own. The muny has worked to highlight Redd’s role the proliferatn of hate speech and radilizatn on social media sce 2015. “If you believe standg up to hate and supportg black liv, you need to act,” <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> reads</a>. Signed by reprentativ of over 800 subredds reprentg lns of Redd ers, the letter outled a number of ncrete mands, cludg hirg more muny managers, enactg a sewi policy agast hate speech, takg a more proactive stance agast ers who spread , and more. Redd took steps to meet many of them this week.</p><p>Many ers weled Redd’s actns this week, but some morators still have rervatns. One of the most upvoted rpons to Huffman’s letter asks whether morators will be given more effective tools to al wh harassment, particularly when a er is banned but simply returns unr a new acunt. “As stands,” reads the ment, “morators are ltle more than wet spong tasked wh wipg away graffi.” Redd dited that they were workg on an improved rponse to ban evasn <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> May</a>, though is still “an early form.” That the issue was mentned a highly upvoted rponse to Huffman’s post suggts remas an ongog ncern among ers.</p></div></div></div><div class="GridItem-buujkM fVLMby grid--em grid-layout__asi"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jxBcTH sticky-box"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--rail"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--rail" data-no-id="7cidts"></div></div><div 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A er who go by Average_Owa, who morat several vio game-related muni and signed the open letter posted r/LGBT solidary wh queer muni, suggted an early warng system for targeted subredds. “Redd uld implement a system that term how active subredds are, and then notify morators when their subredds are signifintly and sudnly more active than ual,” they said. “Not only would this alert morators of potential raids, but uld also help them be rmed when major news breaks.”</p><p>Reached for ment, a Redd spokperson reerated the se’s <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">polici on hate speech</a>. “We have dited teams that e a batn of tools and human review to enforce those polici, proactively go after bad actors on the se, and create engeerg solutns to tect and prevent them the future,” they said.</p><p>Though Redd’s recent actns will hopefully go some way toward protectg margalized people on the platform, crics still see the move as part of a slow and opaque procs. Precisely which muni and dividuals were banned, and for what vlatns, hasn’t been explaed. It’s clear that morators don’t feel fully supported by the webse’s staff, and they want to see the se’s admistrators go further to make their liv easier and their muni safer.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>Morators are hopg that recent actns reprent ntued momentum. “The brigas that we see at <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">/r/lgbt</a> are ultimately the symptom of the unrlyg problem of bigotry.’” says Koronic. “As long as there are muni on Redd dited to spreadg hate or otherg margalized groups, and as long as the adms perm dividual ers to preach bigotry, this is gog to keep happeng. 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