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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_impor

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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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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