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I don't see how that could be true. It's the same workflow for the moderators, it's just that users can unsubscribe to their view.

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How is it the same workflow? Let's say today, there's r/widgets and their rules are no memes, no politics, no nsfw, etc. Most of the users understand the rules and keep it on topic. Now and then moderators have to delete off topic posts or ban users, etc.

You want a fire hose of widgets, widget memes, widget gone wild, erotic widget fan fiction, widget remix videos, widget music, widget swapping, widget swapping in the greater boston area, nsfw widget swapping, ask widget, widget jokes, hold my widget, midget widget porn, gidget widget porn, etc all lumped together. Instead of maybe 100 posts a day with 10% off topic, there are a thousand posts a day and 90% are off topic (for any given moderator's interests). Instead of deleting the relatively rare bad stuff, you have to pick out the relatively rare good stuff.

What would a moderator normally do? Delete comments, issue warnings, ban if necessary. So they can just do the same thing. Nothing changes on their end, but for the user, they're only banned from one curated feed and not from the topic. I guess eventually a user might want to occasionally submit stuff that doesn't belong in every feed, maybe they indicate that somehow, if they care. For most people this isn't a big deal and for the 99% of lurkers it just lets them pick what curated feed to view.

Sounds like you want to flip the model upside down, all the mods would have to approve every post that jives with their POV in order to filter on them.

Now, break the rules and get your post deleted (or however it works there).

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