Reddit CEO: We’re developing content policy, neighborhood Quarantines

Reddit is engaged on main modifications to its web page, as a apply-as much as the latest retooling of its content material coverage. In a brief announcement printed Wednesday morning, Reddit cofounder and CEO Steve Huffman mentioned the corporate is streamlining the rules of its new content coverage, “quarantining” communities it does now not wish to endorse, and developing a substitute for its follow of shadow banning—through which moderators presently censor offending customers with out their information.

“we are in a phase of emergency fixes to restore numerous longstanding concerns which might be inflicting each person grief,” Huffman writes. “I in most cases do not like speaking about issues sooner than they are prepared, however as a result of a lot of you’re asking what’s going on, and were asking for a long time sooner than my arrival, i’m going to share what we’re as much as.”

He goes on to provide an explanation for what the crew is already working on, and what it hopes to tackle subsequent:

below active construction:

• content policy. We’re consolidating all our principles into one position. We will not liberate this formally unless we’ve the instruments to put in force it.
• Quarantine the communities we don’t need to support
• superior banning for both admins and moderators (a much less sneaky different to shadowbanning)
• more advantageous ban-evasion detection techniques (to make the previous possible)
• Anti-brigading analysis (what ways are working to coordinate attacks)
• AlienBlue trojan horse fixes
• AlienBlue improvements
• Android app

subsequent up:

• Anti-abuse and harassment (e.g. preventing PM harassment)
• Anti-brigading
• Modmail enhancements

[by way of Reddit]