say_hwat - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Paywall (Score 1) 722

by say_hwat on Monday February 13, 2012 @05:53PM (#39025155) Attached to: Reddit: No More Suggestive Content Featuring Minors

Could we get a ban on posting links to content behind a paywall in the summary, please? Not everyone is going to shell out money to a sleazy pro-censorship site like Something Awful to read what the fuss is about.

At the time the story was submitted, the forum was not pay-walled. At some point yesterday, the thread was the top link on reddit. This resulted in the website getting hammered with guests. I'm assuming since then they have put the paywall up.

Comment Re:The subreddit was called /r/preteen_girls (Score 2) 722

by say_hwat on Monday February 13, 2012 @05:49PM (#39025079) Attached to: Reddit: No More Suggestive Content Featuring Minors

If you'd RTFA, the most active subreddit now banned by Reddit was called /r/preteen_girls. But hey, enjoy your +5.

Then TFA is wrong. /r/preteen_girls only existed for a few days (strangely enough, only a couple days after SomethingAwful launched their campaign; just saying) and it only had 620 subscribers, which is pitiful for a subreddit.

The most active was /r/teen_girls (with 11640 subscribers), which didn't allow preteens.

http://redditlist.com/stats/preteen_girls http://redditlist.com/stats/teen_girls

r/preteen_girls has existed for 19 days; the SA campaign began yesterday. It was nowhere near the most active subreddit, but it contained some of the most blatantly sexualized content, including a poster recommending on how to seduce your eleven-year-old daughter.

Submission + - Reddit: No more suggestive content featuring minors (reddit.com)

Submitted by say_hwat on Sunday February 12, 2012 @08:39PM

say_hwat writes: Today Reddit announced that it has banned subreddits dedicated to posting sexualized imagery of people under the age of 18. Last year, the site came under fire for r/jailbait, a subreddit dedicated to posting images of people under 18. The subreddit was shut down, but many others, such as r/gaolbait and r/bustybait, continued existing or sprung up afterwards. The policy change today came hours after a thread (http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3466025) on Something Awful called for a public campaign against Reddit's lax attitude towards the sexualization of children. The Something Awful thread creator claims that Reddit's administrators know about child pornography being traded, but refuse to act. Among others, the thread creator cites r/preteen_girls as being particularly egregious.

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