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Okay then, if the purpose of quarantining the subreddits is to remove them, why not just ban them? What reason would they have to use a shady work-around way to remove them?
Comment by Treereme at 05/08/2015 at 21:23 UTC
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Far less PR fallout this way, and they get to pretend they are both being tough on shitty subreddits AND compassionate to controversial ones. It's mostly smokescreen, as all the anger about SRS being left alone shows, but it's a step in the right direction.
Comment by Wargazm at 05/08/2015 at 21:28 UTC
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Okay then, if the purpose of quarantining the subreddits is to remove them, why not just ban them? What reason would they have to use a shady work-around way to remove them?
I can think of a few reasons that might have come into play. For one, outright banning is distasteful. For another, banning leads to copy-cat subreddits getting spawned, which I'm sure is a pain in the ass to deal with. Third, this actually creates a new category of community; where before you were either accepted or not, now there's a new type of subreddit that is crippled, purposefully. This allows them to have more granularity in controlling the site.
Comment by [deleted] at 06/08/2015 at 03:18 UTC
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