Early Reddit had a large number of communities with their own rules. Before that you had message boards that had mostly homogeneous moderation. The moderation f

Early 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.