THIS COMMUNITY HAS BEEN BANNED: Visualizing Reddit's Banning Practices
This project is from 2018
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):
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for information on when subreddits are created
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Meet the unashamed 33-year-old who brought the stolen celebrity nudes to the masses
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Reddit bans 'Fat People Hate' and other subreddits under new harassment rules
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Reddit users flee to Swiss copy Voat after harassment clampdown
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N.C. man told police he went to D.C. pizzeria to investigate gunconspiracy theorywith
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Reddit Bans Forum Inciting ‘Physical Removal‘ of Democrats From Society
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'Incel': Reddit bans misogynist men's group blaming women for their celibacy
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We Are Truly Fucked: Everyone Is Making AI-Generated Fake Porn Now