I think the title speaks for itself.
EDIT: UPDATE: So apparently the former r/jailbait mod that is The CEO purged the sub’s mods and forced the sub to re-reopen under the old rules.
Mission failed! We’ll get them next time!
EDIT2: aaaaaaand the sub’s archived and no longer accepts new submissions. The garbage fire keeps going…
The sub is now /r/InterestANDFuck. I’m sure this is worse for Spez than the John Oliver sub changes, which I also approve of. Everyone knows advertisers love NSFW content being just out there for anybody to stumble upon.
@Kombat Yes, it’s nice to see the funny rules some subs are coming up with, including all the John Oliver stuff, but I’d like to see more of them just get rid of their rules and allow porn or whatever people want to post. I think that would be much more economically damaging to the company, especially after the mainstream media starts describing Reddit as a porn site.
@Iron_Lynx
I love that all of the massive subs are just going full r/worldpolitics at this point. No wonder lemmy/kbin are still growing exponentially after the blackout technically ended, the front page must be completely ruined by all of the huge subs doing this shit.
I still remember when people realized that world politics had no specific rules. People just seemed to assume that posts had to be limited to the sub’s name until the mod refused to remove an off-topic post and said “it doesn’t break any rules”. That’s when the flood gates opened.
Yeah, no rules is definitely the way to hurt Reddit as a company, but I can see why some mods aren’t as willing to go full no rules quite just yet. They’re likely still holding onto hopes that they’ll be able to return to business as usual and it’s easier to recover from a flood of memes than it is from being a porn sub.
That being said, I imagine we’ll see this even more come next month.
I read too that going no rules is basically abandoning moderating and giving Reddit more ‘legitimate’ reason to replace the mods.
They have 1 rule technically and are still going to moderate for reddit policies/rules. I’m assuming people are just saying “no rules” as shorthand.
What I realised to maybe as equally damaging is if all the original NSFW subs started allowing only SFW content. This would drive the fairly isolated but big userbase of those subs away.
About that: https://old.reddit.com/r/horny/comments/14an8n5/important_announcement_embracing_change_on_our/
Libreddit link so you dont have to visit the shitsite:
https://lr.mint.lgbt/r/horny/comments/14an8n5/important_announcement_embracing_change_on_our/
make sure to click “show nsfw” in settings
Honestly, Reddit would probably like a few less NSFW subs. They’ve always had sort of a love-hate relationship with them. They don’t want to deal with adult content at all, but they also don’t want to go full Tumblr and drive half their user base away.
!InterestAndFuck@lemmynsfw.com