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Upvotes/downvotes and reporting on reddit are forms of decentralized strong moderation.

• sedatk 5y ago
  Users can't vote out a content, they can only downvote it which doesn't affect its visibility, only its sort order. There are even people who love that kind of content and read Reddit sorted by "controversial". Curation has some censorship effects but moderation power trumps it. Reporting is advisory too, it's not a power per se. If subreddit mods don't read any of the reports, nothing would happen. No consequences.