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r/Sino, a heavily pro-Chinese-Communist-Party community, became a long-running flashpoint over CCP-aligned content, denial of Uyghur persecution, and aggressive moderation, while Reddit declined to ban it.
After moderator u/pinkcatsonacid publicly raised concerns about newer r/Superstonk moderators, the subreddit's lead moderators stripped her of her position and banned her, triggering mass resignations and the migration of tens of thousands of GameStop 'apes' to the breakaway community r/GMEJungle.
At the height of the January 2021 GameStop frenzy, Discord banned the official WallStreetBets server for hate speech and the subreddit briefly went private, amid accusations that some moderators were trying to cash in on the community's sudden fame.
In August 2020 attackers hijacked moderator accounts to deface more than 70 subreddits — including r/space, r/NFL, and r/food — with pro-Trump messaging. Reddit confirmed that none of the compromised accounts had two-factor authentication enabled.
In June 2020, amid the George Floyd protests and mounting criticism of Reddit's tolerance of hate, co-founder Alexis Ohanian resigned from the board and urged the company to fill his seat with a Black candidate — a move that produced Reddit's first Black board member and previewed the platform's broader racial reckoning.
Robert Allam, known as GallowBoob, became one of Reddit's highest-karma users and a moderator of dozens of large subreddits, drawing accusations of mass self-promotion and karma farming before a viral 'power mod' list triggered harassment and his eventual withdrawal from the platform.
After r/Screenwriting users called certain screenwriting competitions scams, the contests' operator sued the subreddit's volunteer moderator and 50+ unnamed users for defamation; the moderator was dismissed under Section 230.
r/ChapoTrapHouse, the left-wing 'dirtbag left' podcast community, was banned on June 29, 2020 in Reddit's mass content-policy purge — the most prominent non-right-wing subreddit removed that day.
r/DarkHumorAndMemes was one of the most active subreddits removed in Reddit's June 29, 2020 mass purge, banned under the new rule against hate based on identity for using a 'dark humor' framing to host identity-based hate.
Reddit banned r/GenderCritical, its largest gender-critical feminist community (~64,000 members), on June 29, 2020 under a new rule against hate based on identity, characterizing the sub as anti-transgender.
On June 29, 2020 Reddit rewrote its content policy into eight explicit rules and banned roughly 2,000 subreddits the same day under a new rule against hate based on identity or vulnerability — the largest enforcement event in its history.
u/maxwellhill, one of Reddit's oldest, highest-karma, and most prolific moderators, went silent around the July 2, 2020 arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell, fueling widely reported online speculation — unconfirmed and denied — that the two were the same person.