William Shatner questions Reddit's permissive culture

Ah, Verge comments; always so insightful.. Everyone brings up Digg as a counter-example, but completely forget SomethingAwful as a strong and diverse community with radical degrees of separation between each sub while still being able to kick the dirt to the curb; doing so in a public manner that makes people think before they submit.

Reddit will continue to go downhill if they don't take moderation more seriously and allow it to be a safe-haven for discrimination; awareness that it's happening and that 'something' needs to be done doesn't do anything but make people feel like they're contributing to the greater good, but when no one runs the risk of taking responsibility, nothing will change. It's at the point now where admins need to do a better job policing the subreddit moderators themselves. Some of the most needlessly-prolific users (those with histories of online and offline abuse, those who intentionally game the system) moderate/make decisions for some of the largest communities and make decisions that affect thousands of users. That should never even be an option, as it just alienates the rest of the userbase and will make it hard for companies to justify spending marketing dollars advertising to audiences they don't want to be associated with.

I commend Shatner on making these points because they need to be made by someone with listeners inside and out of the community, rather than the minority who get downvoted and told to go somewhere else if they can't stand the heat. Even more that he told SRS to screw off for doing whatever they were trying to do with his likeness.

Was Shatner's face added to SRS sarcastically? Or were they promoting him?