Subreddit Bans Huffington Post Links [Updated]
r/UpliftingNews has banned content from The Huffington Post, citing "parasitic business practices."
The subreddit r/UpliftingNews has banned content from The Huffington Post, citing a “parasitic business model” which uses content from Reddit without attribution. The social site introduced “pressiquette” guidelines last month, asking news outlets to gain permission and attribute Redditors appropriately when getting stories from the site.
From r/UpliftingNews:
While this rule is effective immediately, the decision has been looming for some time now. Simply put, a few of the HuffingtonPost Good News Editors have been sourcing stories from this subreddit for quite a while without any attribution to r/UpliftingNews, to reddit.com
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