This is about removing death threats and abuse, not humour.<p>Reddit is absolutely not a sanitised part of the internet, and I see far more people complaining there about political correctness than actually restraining what they say. I see dry humour as more of a product of geekiness and a text-only medium, causing non-literalist humour to get a bad reception.<p>Randi Harper&#x27;s essay <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;art-marketing&#x2F;putting-out-the-twitter-trashfire-3ac6cb1af3e#.7s10qlcl4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;art-marketing&#x2F;putting-out-the-twitter-tra...</a> is all about improvements to the mechanism of twitter to <i>enable</i> the users to filter out toxic behaviour - at the moment, if you&#x27;re a prominent woman on twitter and you offend the wrong people, you&#x27;ll get drowned in toxic behaviour.