> I'm not sure I understand reddit enough, but how you can harass somebody with a sub if said person never visits the said sub? You can't. The whole problem he

> I'm not sure I understand reddit enough, but how you can harass somebody with a sub if said person never visits the said sub? You can't. The whole problem here was that those subs were not restricting themselves to posting within the sub. They were harassing people outside of the sub. According to one of the Reddit admins[1], all of the banned subs had "numerous complaints that they were harassing people both on and off Reddit". The problem here was not that they were saying mean things on the internet, as you seem to be claiming. The problem was that they were very legitimately harassing people outside of the subreddit. The people being harassed did not have to visit the sub in order to see it, and didn't even have to visit Reddit. And that's what makes it harassment, and what makes it against the rules of Reddit. [1] ekjp, I think this was somewhere in the same thread where he posted https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/removing_harassing_subreddits/cs21aj4 https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/remov...