Reddit Punishes Pro-Trump Community r/the_donald For 'Rule-Breaking Behavior'

Reddit's largest pro-Trump community, r/the_donald, was quarantined Wednesday morning following a deluge of posts that violate the site's content policy. This announcement was made in a post attached to the top of the subreddit, whose 754,000 subscribers have made it one of the most formidable and controversial communities on Reddit.

"The reason for the quarantine is that over the last few months we have observed repeated rule-breaking behavior in your community and an over-reliance on Reddit admins to manage users and remove posts that violate our content policy, including content that encourages or incites violence. Most recently, we have observed this behavior in the form of encouragement of violence towards police officers and public officials in Oregon. This is not only in violation of our site-wide policies, but also your own community rules (rule #9). You can find violating content that we removed in your mod logs," r/the_donald moderator shadowman3001 wrote.