julia deCook

THIS COMMUNITY HAS BEEN BANNED: Visualizing Reddit's Banning Practices

Subreddit bans have received a considerable amount of attention in recent years. The goal of this visualization was to create a timeline that visualizes banning practices from the well-known r/TheFappening to r/DeepFakes. Along with dates when subreddits are banned, I included some major events as well as dates of when media pieces are published that may have put increased pressure on the website to change policies and enact bans. Reddit, like any other system, faces pressure from outside sources and may act accordingly, thus illustrating the crossovers of outlets in the media economy.

created with timelinejs from knightlab

  Sources for Timeline Slides (in order of appearance):

1. RedditMetrics 

   • for information on when subreddits are created

2. Controversial Reddit Communities

3. Meet the unashamed 33-year-old who brought the stolen celebrity nudes to the masses

4. Reddit Blog: Every Man is Responsible for His Own Soul

5. Reddit bans 'Fat People Hate' and other subreddits under new harassment rules

6. Reddit users flee to Swiss copy Voat after harassment clampdown

7. Reddit Content Policy Update

8. Donald Trump is Elected POTUS

9. Fearing yet another witch hunt, Reddit bans ‘Pizzagate’

10. N.C. man told police he went to D.C. pizzeria to investigate gunconspiracy theorywith

11. Reddit bans two prominent alt-right subreddits

12. Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville

13. Reddit Bans Forum Inciting ‘Physical Removal‘ of Democrats From Society

14. Here Are Reddit’s Whiniest, Most Low-Key Toxic Subreddits

15. Update on site-wide rules regarding violent content

16. Reddit bans Nazi boards in crackdown on ‘violent’ content

17. 'Incel': Reddit bans misogynist men's group blaming women for their celibacy

18. We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now

19. Reddit bans ‘deepfakes’ AI porn communities

20. Why uncensorednews subreddit banned?the  was