np linking is very standard subreddit policy. It's a token act. FPH was not banned for vote brigading. They were banned for harassment.
Let's not forget that there are subs made for violence against women, subs exclusive for racism, pornography of all sorts, gore and death, when did lightly hurting an overweight person's feelings became such a huge moral issue?
I'm not addressing that.
Here's what actually happened.
On the afternoon of Thursday, June 11th, Admin /u/powerlanguage made the following statement in a thread in /r/lounge:
I wanted to share with you some clarity I’ve gotten from our community team around this decision that was made.
Over the past 6 months or so, the level of contact emails and messages they’ve been answering with had begun to increase both in volume and urgency. They were often from scared and confused people who didn’t know why they were being targeted, and were in fear for their or their loved ones safety.It was an identifiable trend, and it was always leading back to the fat-shaming subreddits. Upon investigation, it was found that not only was the community engaging in harassing behavior but the mods were not only participating in it, but even at times encouraging it.The ban of these communities was in no way intended to censor communication. It was simply to put an end to behavior that was being fostered within the communities that were banned. We are a platform for human interaction, but we do not want to be a platform that allows real-life harassment of people to happen. We decided we simply could no longer turn a blind eye to the human beings whose lives were being affected by our users’ behavior.
And here's an example of their behavior and general attitude towards harassment