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No_to_censorship

Wow thats something, reminds me of how that KONY bullshit was all a FB test to show the power they controlled by letting content get shared faster with more visibility. Never forget these very public tests.

ddd

wow never thought about it that way.. that's scary

GhettoLobster

So I'm guessing this new software failed miserably?

How many thousands of non-FPH subscribers became aware of FPH because of that little episode?

No_to_censorship

it may have failed to keep me and you from reddit, but the front page was back to normal in one day. If you didn't log on every day or week you would not have even noticed the state reddit was in during the peak of that fat people shit.

radium_coyote

I also believe that the banning of FPH was a test run to see how well her downvote / shadowban / community removal bots and tools were up to par and ready for action - as a way to show her clients that reddit is containable and controllable and not necessarily a totally unruly beast - the fear most investors would have about such a site, I imagine.

That's not unreasonable if true. On the other hand, if actually true, it failed pretty spectacularly. Reddit wasn't containable so much as it started leaving. As many other have said, so went Digg before it when it tried pretty much the same thing.

No_to_censorship

if it wasn't true, she would have been fired as CEO... or resigned to please the reddit community. when i realized that was not the happening, I knew there was a bigger picture to this. Reddit is less worried about saving face than attracting new corporate clients and government approval.

RedHawk

Makes sense...