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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.
There's nothing here!