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Reddit purges all NSFW subreddits (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/reddit@lemmy.ml
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Something big is happening, as Reddit seems to have purged literally every NSFW sub they know. Reason is always "unmoderated" despite some of the banned subreddits being fully moderated.

Edit: seems to have been a bug in automation (thanks @lefty7283@lemmy.world):

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii67mt/_/mb3fewv

It's still a good reminder on how quickly a community (or communities) thousands of people enjoy and in some cases rely upon can disappear.

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[–] 66 points 2 years ago (25 children)

The subs are back up for the record. According to an admin, it was a glitch.

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    The glitch being they got caught and people complained

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (16 children)

    Eh no need to get tin foil hat, imho.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    I mean, one has to ask why they were setting up automated banning of these subreddits in the first place.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    The reason for all of them was unmoderated. So it seems to me like they have/are testing a method to auto ban unmoderated subs. Not that crazy, imho.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Then why weren't there loads more "unmoderated" subs of different categorize blocked?

    If it was just a glitch, I suspect that the affected subreddits would better represent a random distribution of topics than what we witnessed.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    A glitch is when something doesn't work as you expect it to. I don't know why you'd suspect any kind of behaviour from a glitch. Glitches can do all kinds of crazy shit.

    To be clear, I'm speculating on what tool they may actually be working on.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm aware of what a glitch is. What I'm saying is that they are already targeting these specific subs regardless of their moderation status. The only 'glitch' here was that they got caught pushing an agenda.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    You countered the assertion that it was a glitch with "well then why..." and presented a scenario you'd expect to see if it really were a glitch. I tried explaining why that doesn't make any sense.

    Have a good day.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    subs like r/boobs are unmodded?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Hence the glitch. A glitch is when doesn't perform as expected or desired.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I see, I assumed trans_surgeries wasn't a nsfw sub, so I was weary of why it would be in the list with the rest.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago*

    NSFW doesn't mean literal porn it means "what would be potentially catastrophic for the prudes at work to see on my screen out of the corner of their eye".

    As it turns out, anyones' loins falls under that definition because vivimos en una sociedad.

    And taking a scythe to anything with that tag is much simpler than actually being an arbiter of what is and isn't "degenerate" porn for the sake of this batshit prudish regime.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It probably just looks for subreddits with a lot of NSFW flagged posts and they got the parameters wrong for what triggers the "is this unmoderated" part. Unmoderated NSFW subreddits probably are the target of this tool. Just my guess based on the context.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out they're making a ban list for all these communities, but the 'glitch' was that someone turned it on before whatever PR move/manufactured scandal they were going to use to justify it was ready to go.

    Or this was just a test fire to see how people would react.

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