Reddit bans five subforums over harassment concerns

Five subreddits - including r/fatpeoplehate and r/hamplanethatred - removed from social news site as site chiefs say: 'We're banning behavior, not ideas'

The "front page of the internet" now has less hate. Social news site Reddit announced on Wednesday that the company would be banning subreddits - areas of the site dedicated to a single topic - "that allow their communities to use the subreddit as a platform to harass individuals when moderators don't take action."

"We're banning behavior, not ideas," the post said. Five subreddits were removed: r/fatpeoplehate and r/hamplanethatred, both of which are about hating overweight people; r/transfags and r/neofag, which target the gaming community; and r/shitniggerssay. Most of the subreddits being banned are fairly small, Reddit leadership said: the only subreddit being banned with more than 5,000 subscribers was r/fatpeoplehate.