18 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
View submission: Content Policy Update
You can't subscribe without opting-in (moving forward). If you subscribe (and necessarily opt-in), the subreddit appears on your front page.
For *old* subscribers, they'll need to opt-in to show the subreddit on their front page, they aren't opted-in by default.
Comment by hiro91 at 05/08/2015 at 21:49 UTC
11 upvotes, 1 direct replies
And therefore the vast majority of subscribers will be unaware of its quarantined status, since they won't be able to see posts from there in the first place.
A subreddit will effectively lose all of their subscribers overnight, since everyone will have to essentially re-subscribe (or "opt-in", as you call it) to have posts from there come up on their front page.
The subreddit might still exist, but except in high-profile subreddits in which you would be notified of its status through other means (complains posted inside other subreddits, for example) quarantine means de-facto banning.
Comment by lolwaffles69rofl at 05/08/2015 at 21:35 UTC
-6 upvotes, 1 direct replies
So then it's a no.