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Reddit also grew to be one of the biggest sites on the internet with their low censorship policy before they started the crackdown. It’s not evidence crackdowns
by jdsully 5y ago
Reddit also grew to be one of the biggest sites on the internet with their low censorship policy before they started the crackdown. It’s not evidence crackdowns are necessary because they got successful first.
- root_axis 5y agoCensorship is the quintessential differentiating factor of reddit's success, they simply offloaded the censoring to the users. Later on they added some global site guidelines, but reddit has always been about censorship.
- jdsully 5y agoEarly Reddit had a large number of communities with their own rules. Before that you had message boards that had mostly homogeneous moderation. The moderation for /r/askhistorians was different from /r/humor and that was a key part of the design. Without this I doubt Reddit would have progressed much from its early programmer audience. It’s not accidental they took a light touch and let communities self moderate in the beginning.