The reddit admins have been forced to step in after users on a hate-subreddit conspired to make fake screenshots, attempting to trick advertisers into believing their reddit ads were being shown next to objectionable material.

42  2018-03-26 by AssuredlyAThrowAway

In a very strange turn of events earlier this week, the admins of reddit were forced to intervene on a hate subreddit after it was discovered the users thereof had engaged in a conspiracy to doctor screenshots with the intention of "shaming" reddit into censoring, what the hate subreddit suggested to be, objectionable material.

For admins to make a public post in that way, scolding that community for its behavior, is highly abnormal, as the usual practice would be for a modmail to be sent. In this way, it seems the administrators do not trust the mods of that community to contain or otherwise prevent briagding and manipulated content from being posted.

Perhaps it is no surprise then that the community in question is run by some of the same mods who have run a hate subreddit directed at /r/conspiracy for nearly a year at this point, often times using the very same tactics as described by the admins above. Not surprisingly, after poking the admin beehive, the moderators of said hate subreddit have begun to receive site warnings in regards to their ongoing brigading directed at other communities on the site (most likely for attacking /r/conspiracy).

That these hate subreddits need to go to the lengths they do (brigading and creating fake screenshots) is a testament to their ideological barbarity and manipulative intentions. To that end, it should be interesting to see if the warnings issued by the admins to those hate subreddit moderators have the intended effect with regards to manipulation of content on this subreddit over the coming days and weeks.

14 comments

1  Onpointson 2018-03-26

5 upvotes the second this got posted, I smells manipulation

1  RMFN 2018-03-26

A conspiracy maybe? A karma conspiracy?

1  RecoveringGrace 2018-03-26

I wonder what secret place they are discussing it in if they don't want to make a meta thread because of "trolls". The irony..

1  AssuredlyAThrowAway 2018-03-26

Its not secret I don't believe, I just blacked out the subreddit name to discourage folks visiting a hate subreddit.

1  RecoveringGrace 2018-03-26

I was referring to thier decision to not make a meta post about it.

1  AssuredlyAThrowAway 2018-03-26

Ah yea, I see now. Indeed.

1  MissType 2018-03-26

This is good to see. I’m glad the admins are finally clamping down on these hate subs. It won’t look good if they’re still allowed to bully and harass when Reddit goes public.

1  garyp714 2018-03-26

I think that first screenshot acquits reddit pretty well. Allowing the protests, but just don't make shit up.

1  eccentric-vagabond 2018-03-26

That these hate subreddits need to go to the lengths they do (brigading and creating fake screenshots) is a testament to their ideological barbarity and manipulative intentions.

and the importance of this community in the information war - keep it up guys!

1  astrogirl 2018-03-26

I've not been able to figure out why CBTS_Stream got banned. Now I'm wondering if somebody faked screen shots.

1  Waffle_Bat 2018-03-26

It's interesting because I never saw an archive of the offending content. The only 'proof' was people talking about it on a certain hate subreddit.

1  astrogirl 2018-03-26

Sigh, don't make me more paranoid than I already am.

1  follyboyz 2018-03-26

Finally, something is being done.

1  FartfullyYours 2018-03-26

I noticed the lack of brigading today, in fact.