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What a joke. Reddit has always been about providing a way to get exactly what content you want. If I don't want to see things relevant to (subreddit) then I don't subscribe to it. If I never want to see NSFW content, I never open a NSFW link.
By creating content barriers, reddit is takes yet another step away from showing you want you want to see, toward showing you what **it** wants you to see.
Comment by StoodieDain at 07/08/2015 at 12:16 UTC
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Since the banning started, I think it has become evident that reddit is only interested in hosting content that is mainstream and considered "positive". It is my opinion that a certain subsection of the community will hunt down and bring to light anything not in line with this goal and reddit will come up with a reason to remove it.
Originally, they used rules to make decisions on who to ban. Those who violated the clear rules would suffer the consequences. Now banning is much more subjective. If reddit determines they have to "spend a lot of time" dealing with it they can ban it. Or they can just say "this offends the average redditor" and ban it.
Those things they are afraid to ban outright, they will put it behind further restrictions, adding an additional layer of difficulty to view it (basically, if you want to sub to a quarantined subreddit, they will have your email so nobody will want to even view them with their primary account out of privacy concerns).
This is an effort to force such subreddits to dry up and hopefully move on voluntarily to other sites so reddit won't have to deal with outright banning.
This banning has just begun. Since they banned some, they will have to continue to ban more and more content, because anything they do not ban will come across as accepted by the website. For example, if they ban subreddits that are racist against Blacks but not subreddits that are racist against Asians or Jews, then it appears that reddit condones the latter.