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There may still be issues with links to bannable content, even if thumbnails are turned off. I don't know if it is possible to disable every sort of linking in a subreddit, though even that might be better than banning. However, people will continue to try an circumvent that using human-readable obfuscation (like, "banned images dot com").
Comment by Helios321 at 08/09/2014 at 05:16 UTC
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It has been said many times that is not illegal to link to stolen or copyrighted material because you are not the host and are not in possession of it at all. It is not quite the same with the underage issue from which I can see their point, but once again there are many other subreddits with the same type of material with no age verification. In the end it seems to be that the only legitimate reason for interfering with the original subreddit in question would be to keep out the underage pictures, and it just seems like they didn't feel like trying so they just banned the whole thing cuz it fit well with a PC campaign they can garner public support from. Which is totally ridiculous because every Redditor hates PC crap and they hate catering to public pressure even more. In all honesty I personally feel like the admins chose to cater to outside pressure than to support their own Reddit community and as a Redditor I feel more that a little let down and that saddens me...