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You should post this at http://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco http://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco as well.

kybernetyk 12y ago
I guess that post has been removed by an admin because it contained personal information (wtf?!): http://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/2lhwzi/an_important_message_about_missing_persons_posts/ http://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/2lhwzi/an_impo...
- recondite 12y ago
  Ah, I hadn't seen that. It looks like they've updated the post with links to actual news articles to satisfy Reddit's requirement of posting personal information.
- baddox 12y ago
  > As Reddit has strict site-wide policies pertaining to unverified personal information, Missing Person posts must be validated and reported by a local news service proving that the person is missing. Seems fairly reasonable to me.
  - pbreit 12y ago
    Does not seem reasonable to me (especially for reddit) but maybe I'm missing something.
    - DanBC 12y ago
      One of the things that will get your account banned or your sub-reddit closed is people posting personal information. Reddit admins take it pretty seriously. It's weird what they do and don't care about.
      - tedks 12y ago
        This makes perfect sense, since as a user-generated content community, a large portion (not a majority, but a large part) is in very shady shit. /r/jailbait, /r/thefappening, etc.. But for everything shut down, there are countless others that are still operating, like /r/FacebookCleavage, /r/photoplunder, /r/redpill, /r/greatapes, etc.. Reddit has expressed that it wants to be totally neutral so that it can model a "new type of online meta-community" that has literally no curation for types of communities. They want to have /r/MensRights'ers and /r/feminisms'ers on the same site, fighting with each other, generating ad impressions. They want to attract white supremacists and misogynists and feminists and people of color alike. So, the main thing they need to guard against is conflict on reddit spilling over into the real world, and the best way to do that is to strictly prohibit posting personal information. Of course, "personal information" doesn't extend to things like naked photos taken and distributed without the consent of those depicted, but you can't use that to make Reddit a scary place for misogynists. So it's okay.
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gkoberger 12y ago
/r/sanfrancisco mod here. It's a tough call, and one that Reddit Admins (not mods) have mostly decided for us. The worry is this: an abusive ex could post a "missing persons" alert for someone trying to hide, and get their location. So, we have a rule that a news organization (which has more of an ability to vet a story, as well as a "the cat's already out of the bag" effect) has to cover it before it can be posted – and you'll notice the story is now on r/sanfrancisco since one did.
- abroncs 12y ago
  That's a very reasonable approach actually.
  - possibilistic 12y ago
    Agreed. Also, in this case, I think the Techcrunch article meets the requirement for vetting by a news agency. Hopefully the SF-related subreddits will give this greater visibility.
- smhinsey 12y ago
  It's weird that Reddit hasn't seemed to decide for /r/losangeles, which has a missing person post on a weekly basis, if not more often.
- trashcan 12y ago
  Most subreddits handle this but requesting that the OP post a case number and the phone number for law enforcement investigating so that people can get directly in touch rather than posting personal information on Reddit.

I guess that post has been removed by an admin because it contained personal information (wtf?!): http://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/2lhwzi/an_important_message_about_missing_persons_posts/ http://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/2lhwzi/an_impo...

recondite 12y ago
Ah, I hadn't seen that. It looks like they've updated the post with links to actual news articles to satisfy Reddit's requirement of posting personal information.
baddox 12y ago
> As Reddit has strict site-wide policies pertaining to unverified personal information, Missing Person posts must be validated and reported by a local news service proving that the person is missing. Seems fairly reasonable to me.
- pbreit 12y ago
  Does not seem reasonable to me (especially for reddit) but maybe I'm missing something.
  - DanBC 12y ago
    One of the things that will get your account banned or your sub-reddit closed is people posting personal information. Reddit admins take it pretty seriously. It's weird what they do and don't care about.
    - tedks 12y ago
      This makes perfect sense, since as a user-generated content community, a large portion (not a majority, but a large part) is in very shady shit. /r/jailbait, /r/thefappening, etc.. But for everything shut down, there are countless others that are still operating, like /r/FacebookCleavage, /r/photoplunder, /r/redpill, /r/greatapes, etc.. Reddit has expressed that it wants to be totally neutral so that it can model a "new type of online meta-community" that has literally no curation for types of communities. They want to have /r/MensRights'ers and /r/feminisms'ers on the same site, fighting with each other, generating ad impressions. They want to attract white supremacists and misogynists and feminists and people of color alike. So, the main thing they need to guard against is conflict on reddit spilling over into the real world, and the best way to do that is to strictly prohibit posting personal information. Of course, "personal information" doesn't extend to things like naked photos taken and distributed without the consent of those depicted, but you can't use that to make Reddit a scary place for misogynists. So it's okay.
      - deleted 12y ago
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gkoberger 12y ago

/r/sanfrancisco mod here. It's a tough call, and one that Reddit Admins (not mods) have mostly decided for us. The worry is this: an abusive ex could post a "missing persons" alert for someone trying to hide, and get their location. So, we have a rule that a news organization (which has more of an ability to vet a story, as well as a "the cat's already out of the bag" effect) has to cover it before it can be posted – and you'll notice the story is now on r/sanfrancisco since one did.

abroncs 12y ago
That's a very reasonable approach actually.
- possibilistic 12y ago
  Agreed. Also, in this case, I think the Techcrunch article meets the requirement for vetting by a news agency. Hopefully the SF-related subreddits will give this greater visibility.
smhinsey 12y ago
It's weird that Reddit hasn't seemed to decide for /r/losangeles, which has a missing person post on a weekly basis, if not more often.
trashcan 12y ago
Most subreddits handle this but requesting that the OP post a case number and the phone number for law enforcement investigating so that people can get directly in touch rather than posting personal information on Reddit.