Anyone have experience of reporting/banning misogynist Subreddits?

[FreyaonFire]

A friend alerted me this morning to a Subreddit called 'degradeyourwife' - it's absolutely disgusting. I'm sure that most of the nude photos on there have been posted without the consent of the wife/girlfriend in question, and people (men) are encouraged to say the absolute filthiest things they can about the genitalia of the posters wife/girlfriend (and even sister in one case.. ) How can this even be allowed? I'm so fuming I can't seem to let it go. Surely, this kind of shit is not OK and there must be some way of getting it banned? I know these discussions have gone on for years....but can we not come up with some really left-field, creative, ingenious solution to getting this vile, misogynist crap off the internet?

Sounds absolutely horrendous 😦

The only way to do it is to become a Reddit moderator.

The Chanellor pair (TRAs) both became Reddit moderators overseeing over 100 subreddits between them, and next thing you know the support forums for detransitioners, women with PCOS, women with vaginismus, lesbians attracted to women only, and a whole load of other support forums for women were all taken down.
So it is possible to take subreddits down.

You need to work your way up in order to do it.

^Sorry Challenor rather

The process is slightly more complex GNCQ, but you are on the right track I think.

I believe that a whistleblower claimed that once you identified the sub you wanted closed (GC, detrans), you flooded it with disgusting images of child abuse and ^then* you had a strong argument for closing it!

That would work for sure WoolOfBat but I was on the subreddit Gender_Critical a LOT before it closed down. There were no threads or posts depicting child abuse or any sort of abuse at all, or anything untoward.
If there were there would have been posts discussing that.

It was just taken down overnight.
At the exact same time as the lesbian forum, and all the other female centric forums were taken down. At the exact same time Aimee Challenor gained moderator privilege.

I don't know I think they were shagging the right person in San Francisco.

According to the GC mods there were regular attempts to do that to r/GC but they manually approved all image posts and ran a tight ship with the moderation, so it didn’t work.

Of course Reddit eventually gave into Team Diaperfur and banned the sub even though the sabotage attempts failed.

Well I suppose we could all try to sabotage the degrademywife subreddit with vile content but it seems to have more than enough on it already...

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/DeclineIntoCensorship/comments/fxe9o5/ahs_whistleblower_reupload/

GNCQ this was one of the videos I watched.

Interestingly, Reddit closed down its Gender Critical subreddit

www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/06/29/reddit-bann-transphobia-gender-critical-page-hate-speech-donald-trump-steve-huffman/

The only way to do it is to become a Reddit moderator.

The Chanellor pair (TRAs) both became Reddit moderators overseeing over 100 subreddits between them, and next thing you know the support forums for detransitioners, women with PCOS, women with vaginismus, lesbians attracted to women only, and a whole load of other support forums for women were all taken down.
So it is possible to take subreddits down.

You need to work your way up in order to do it.

You're confusing moderator and admins. Moderators are volunteers who can remove posts in a subreddit. Admins are paid employees who can remove subreddits.

Porn subreddits like this are always ignored until there is bad press and then a bunch of them will be removed at once. Often there are rumours of purges before it happens. They only fired Challenor because it was starting to get picked up bigger news sites. Right before that they were censoring all mentions of Challenor.

As Reddit has at least one trans employee, there is a policy that any GC subreddits get deleted immediately, following on from the purge when they were all deleted.

I thought Aimee was an admin/employee after starting out as a mod.

I thought Aimee was an admin/employee after starting out as a mod.

Yes, Aimee started as a mod and then got hired. It wasn't announced publicly but someone leaked the announcement and not long after people started protesting about it. It's not common from mods to progress to admins though and I can't think of anyone else who had been hired that way.

Thanks so much for all the feedback and for having taken the time to respond. The situation is actually more dire than I thought.

Not sure anything can be done other than wait a few generations for mankind to evolve...

Not sure anything can be done other than wait a few generations for mankind to evolve...

Honestly, your best bet to compile a list and some horrid posts and send it to the Daily Mail etc to see if they will write an article on it. Another option is compile a graphic like this and share it a lot on social media. I think some of these went in the last purge.

Reddit just will not do anything until there is external pressure.