Reddit, the self-appointed “front page of the Internet” and one of the Web’s most popular sites, is planning to crack down on objectionable content — at least in public areas of the site.

The new policies, which don’t appear to be set in stone yet, come in response to a rocky couple of weeks for the famously free-wheeling website that were sparked by the dismissal of a staffer. The firing caused long simmering dissatisfaction by the site’s moderators over Reddit’s management to boil over and culminated in the resignation of CEO Ellen Pao last week.

Writing in Thursday’s Washington Post, Pao called the response to decisions she had made at Reddit “one of the largest trolling attacks in history.” In the wake of bans on revenge porn and harassment of individuals, Pao said she and colleagues were “targeted with harassing messages, attempts to post my private information online and death threats.”

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