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View submission: Let's talk content. AMA.
Occasionally, someone would start spewing hate, and I would ban them. The community rarely questioned me. When they did, they accepted my reasoning: “because I don’t want that content on our site.”
As we grew, I became increasingly uncomfortable projecting my worldview on others. More practically, I didn’t have time to pass judgement on everything, so I decided to judge nothing.
This (the part that's full of shit) is eerily similar to what moot said before a similar content crackdown occurred last year on 4chan.
It might make you think they have similar motivations. The only difference is that moot eventually gave up on monetizing 4chan, but these guys are still giving it a shot. The only question is, how far are they willing to push it?
So we entered a phase that can best be described as Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. This worked temporarily, but once people started paying attention, few liked what they found. A handful of painful controversies usually resulted in the removal of a few communities, but with inconsistent reasoning and no real change in policy.
This part is actually telling the truth, but using weasel words: "people" meaning mainstream media, and "resulted in" meaning "we caved to media pressure."
There's nothing here!