The Efficacy of Reddit’s 2015 Ban Examined Through Hate Speech [pdf]
This is an A+ study which seems to confirm that banning subreddits can be an effective way to silence their inhabitants. &quot;Fat hatred&quot; as an epidemic has largely disappeared since 2015, for example.<p>It&#x27;s nice to get some hard data to counter the theory that if you ban a subreddit consisting of undesirables, they&#x27;ll simply invade other parts of reddit and continue. In reality, the other parts of reddit aren&#x27;t nearly so tolerant.<p>So what&#x27;s the implication? Well, ban judiciously. Getting rid of places that fester hatred is like putting out a fire. But it&#x27;s obviously very tricky to do this.<p>See &#x2F;r&#x2F;physicalremoval for an example of a sub that was just banned for inciting violence.