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>Each sub-reddit has it's own moderation team that decides what's acceptable and then you opt-in. This is pretty close to what ACX is proposing.

No, it really isn't.

Differences:

1) Reddit is super ban happy, and there is no way to view banned content. Ban reasons include slurs, political opinions, as well as no reasons at all.

2) Subreddits are not filters over the same content, they have (mostly) different content.

3) There is a fractal abundance of user-moderated subreddit; yes, there is some bad culture in some of them. This is not what ACX is proposing. He is proposing 2-20 filters, ran by the company, not by volunteers, with a specific purpose and clearly defined.

I really don't see how ACX's proposal can cause illegal behavior or harassment that is not already there.

You're making a false equivalence with reddit, then pointing out reddit has negative emergent properties.

On r/wallstreetbets there is an automod that proactively deletes people's comments to save them from Reddit's Orwellian "Anti-Evil" foot soldiers.

"Reddit has a paid team called Anti-Evil Operations (part of the "Trust" & "Safety" team) which goes around permanently banning accounts for saying bad words. We made automod block them so you don't lose your account for saying a word and getting reported. It's not our rule, it's the entire website now, we're just trying to look out for our people. Sorry."

Reddit is super ban happy today. That's because of the complete trash fire that resulted of their original policy. They literally just had straight child porn on the site for a long time before they finally had to actually bite the bullet and fix the platform.

Be that as it may, they are super ban happy, and regularly exceed what is necessary. Particularly with regards to politics.

And also, whether they're justified or not, it doesn't really matter to he point. ACX's proposal =/= subreddits.

Reddit didn't have child porn in the open at any time that I'm aware of (I joined in 2008). What it did have were subreddits catering to pedophiles with "barely legal" content, which repeatedly were found to contain child porn distribution rings operating via PMs.

Whatever you're arguing becomes moot when you realize that Reddit had millions of users at whatever point it "had child porn". Murphy's law.

I personally gave up on Reddit, they are too trigger happy. Gave up on anything political 9 years ago, but 3 years ago gave up on practical things like credit card miles, traveling with US phone, etc. It's at best read-only for me.

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