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Redditors are pissed (and delighted) about the temporary shutdown of its r/games subreddit

Redditors are pissed (and delighted) about the temporary shutdown of its r/games subreddit

5 years ago
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https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2019/04/02/reddit-games-subreddit-shut-down-april-fool-hate-speech/

Usually, being a gamer on the first of April is good fun — jokes, memes, pranks about Half-Life 3. But the moderators of Reddit’s r/Games subreddit made it very clear when they shuttered the community today that they were dead serious. Their cutting of the proverbial phone wires wasn’t just a protest against hate speech, it was an incitement aimed at a gaming community that occasionally gets a little too complacent the terrible things said by its members on a regular basis.

The moderators presented an album full of terrible comments from across the subreddit, espousing views we won’t repeat here — you can read them yourself if you’re feeling masochistic. They see these comments on a regular basis, apparently (shout-out to you brave moderating souls, because I couldn’t do what you do), and wanted to bring them to collective attention: