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- As of today, more than a half-dozen prominent websites have been banned from the massively popular link-sharing site, including digital publishing heavyweights The Atlantic and PhysOrg.
Redditors are collecting the blacklisted sites at a freshly minted subreddit, r/BannedDomains. The list so far includes at least five: BusinessWeek.com, Phys.org, ScienceDaily.com, TheAtlantic.com, and GlobalPost.
The Web, where you want to share your content without sharing your content.
My guess is that these publications represent just a fraction of those that are engaging in behavior that breaks their tos. I don't see how this will fix the problem. An interesting media strategy would be to pump the content of your competitor, and get them banned.
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lessismore · 4742 days ago · link ·
Now if they will do so for Pandodaily, Techcrunch, and Gizmodo as well. :)
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forwardslash · 4742 days ago · link ·
Seems like they are taking some hard actions after incidents such as How “The Atlantic” successfully spammed Reddit.
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thenewgreen · 4742 days ago · link ·
I'm with you. I wouldn't care if someone only posted fox news links as long as they were engaged in dialog. If I didn't like the content, I'd just use the ignore function and I'd never see it.
I'd much prefer it be the Atlantic though, I love their work and I'm always glad to see it here.
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lessismore · 4742 days ago · link ·
Perhaps they are afraid that their frontpage gets dominated by a few sources akin to what happened with Digg v4.
forwardslash · 4742 days ago · link ·
Not exactly sure either, as far as I can see the reddit admins are being a bit vague as to the exact reasons for the bans. Plus, there are a ton of sites I would have banned before sites like 'The Atlantic'.
startupstan · 4716 days ago · link ·
Is this still going on? Can you now submit Atlantic content?
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forwardslash · 4716 days ago · link ·
Apparently they just lifted the ban on the Atlantic.