In the wake of Reddit’s new announcement regarding “quarantined communities,” the subreddit of popular streamer Ice Poseidon was one of the first to get quarantined.

Reddit’s now revamped quarantine system is meant to hide communities that Reddit admin landoflobsters described as “offensive” and “upsetting.”

The Reddit admin was very upfront about the fact that they are intentionally trying to censor certain communities.

“The purpose of quarantining a community is to prevent its content from being accidentally viewed by those who do not knowingly wish to do so, or viewed without appropriate context,” landoflobsters wrote in Reddit’s announcement.

It did not take long afterwards for users of r/Ice_Poseidon, the subreddit dedicated to controversial streamer Ice Poseidon, to be met with a disclaimer upon trying to access the community.

The mod team received no warning of the quarantine, according to r/Ice_Poseidon moderator CiaranLango.

If you don’t know who Ice Poseidon is then you might be thinking that his community is filled with posts about white nationalism or Holocaust denial.

That’s not the case.

In fact, r/Ice_Poseidon has among the strictest moderation on the entire website.

The community is within the top 50 subreddits for the highest percentage of moderator-removed comments, according to Reddit user Stuck_In_the_Matrix.

Most mod removed comments for July, 2018

That’s a lot of removed comments for a community that isn’t even in the top 1,000 on RedditMetrics.

This extremely strict moderation seems to contradict what the Reddit admins told the moderators of r/Ice_Poseidon.

“In this case the quarantine was applied for the high degree of bigotry present in your community, as well as widespread use of abusive and derogatory language,” Reddit admins told the r/Ice_Poseidon mod team.

There must be another reason why the community was quarantined.

I speculate that the reason Ice Poseidon’s community was quarantined is because of “harassment.”

The subreddit is not filled with hatred, overt bigotry, or intentionally derogatory language.

Instead, the subreddit is mostly filled with posts about disgraced YouTuber Sam Pepper, who is a secondary character on Ice Poseidon’s streams.

Disgraced YouTuber Sam Pepper

If you’re not aware of Ice Poseidon’s Cx Network, I’ll offer a brief explanation.

The Cx Network is a group of smaller streamers who surround Ice Poseidon. You should think of these streamers as secondary characters on what the community jokingly calls “The Ice Poseidon Show.”

One of the intriguing aspects of the Cx Network is the conflict between the 28 streamers.

A lot of the streamers, such as Sam Pepper, intentionally create drama for “content.” These conflicts are discussed on the subreddit.

However, to outsiders, it may seem that there is unwarranted hate towards random people on Ice Poseidon’s subreddit, but that’s not the case.

Just like how you will find posts about characters on a subreddit dedicated to a reality TV show, you will also find posts about characters from “The Ice Poseidon Show" on Ice Poseidon’s subreddit.

Cx Network streamers Burger Planet and EBZ

Streamers on the Cx Network know this is part of the deal. There is not a single streamer on the network who does not consent to Reddit posts about them.

Posts about the characters are integral to the streams. It gives the community a way to interact with the “show” and potentially influence the plot.

To put it frankly: without Reddit, there is no Ice Poseidon.

To put the community into quarantine is to punish an innocent community and put the entire “show” at risk for no reason.

Outside of posts relevant to streams and streamers on the Cx Network, the moderation team is very strict, and that’s proven in the data.

Reddit’s ignorant decision to quarantine Ice Poseidon’s community was completely unjustified.