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In 2012, the subreddit {{proper name|r/Creepshots}} received major backlash for sharing suggestive or revealing photos of women taken without their awareness or [[consent]]. [[Adrian Chen]] wrote a ''[[Gawker]]'' exposé of one of the subreddit's moderators and identified the person behind the account, starting discussion in the media about the [[ethics]] of [[anonymity]] and outing on the [[Internet]].<ref name="Gawkerexpose">{{cite news |last=Chen |first=Adrian |date=October 12, 2012 |title=Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web |newspaper=Gawker |url=http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the-biggest-troll-on-the-web |url-status=dead |access-date=October 28, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012213707/http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the-biggest-troll-on-the-web |archive-date=October 12, 2012}}</ref>
In 2020, administrators banned the subreddit [[r/The_Donald]] for harassment, having previously instructed moderators to take down content in violation of site policies as well as imposing a quarantine to reduce the subreddit's visibility.<ref>{{cite web |last=Robertson |first=Adi |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/26/18759967/reddit-quarantines-the-donald-trump-subreddit-misbehavior-violence-police-oregon |title=Reddit quarantines Trump subreddit r/The_Donald for violent comments |publisher=[[The Verge]] |date=June 26, 2019 |access-date=April 20, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190626195922/https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/26/18759967/reddit-quarantines-the-donald-trump-subreddit-misbehavior-violence-police-oregon |archive-date=June 26, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Isaac |first=Mike |date=June 29, 2020 |title=Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans 'The_Donald' Subreddit |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/technology/reddit-hate-speech.html |url-status=live |url-access=limited |access-date=April 20, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230123201129/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/technology/reddit-hate-speech.html |archive-date=23 January 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
== Quarantining ==
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