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Screenshot  The front page of r/The_Donald on May 20, 2017, before quarantine. Quarantine has since removed all subreddit CSS.[1] | |
Type of site | Subreddit |
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| Available in | English |
| Founder(s) | u/jcm267 |
| URL | www |
| Launched | June 27, 2015 |
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r/The_Donald was a subreddit where participants created discussions and internet memes in support of U.S. president Donald Trump. Initially created in June 2015 following the announcement of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, the community grew to over 790,000 subscribers who described themselves as "Patriots". The community was banned in June 2020 for violating Reddit rules on harassment and targeting. It was ranked as one of the most active communities on Reddit in the late 2010s.
Activities by members and moderators of the subreddit were controversial, and site-wide administrators took steps to prevent the subreddit from having popular content displayed on Reddit's r/all forum, which the company's motto describes as "the front page of the Internet". A quarantine of the subreddit was imposed in June 2019, which required users to click an opt-in button to view the subreddit and prevented the subreddit from appearing in Reddit's search results and recommendations. Additionally, ads could not be run on the message board and certain features such as custom Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) were not available. Moderators of r/The_Donald created a backup website outside of Reddit in response to the quarantine.
The subreddit had a lengthy documented history of hosting conspiracy theory content that was racist, misogynistic, and Islamophobic. On June 29, 2020, "Reddit banned the subreddit for frequent rule-breaking, antagonizing the company and other communities, and failing to "meet our most basic expectations."
After the subreddit was quarantined and placed in restricted mode in 2019, moderators of r/The_Donald created and moved to the site "TheDonald.win", and after President Joe Biden's inauguration, moved again to "Patriots.win" to continue supporting Donald Trump and a potential political party he would create, the "Patriot Party".
- ^ Haskins, Caroline (June 26, 2019). "Reddit Quarantined r/The_Donald for 'Threats of Violence'". Vice. Archived from the original on August 31, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
According to Reddit Help, Reddit quarantines add warning portals to subreddits, cut off revenue opportunities, remove subreddits from Reddit-curated feeds like r/Popular, remove subreddits from recommendations and search, and remove custom CSS styling.