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View submission: Reddit Community Values
Thanks for the question, I'll take this one live.
1: https://www.reddit.com/talk/9acbd3a2-99ef-4820-893f-fcf23ff8a541
I would be lying if I said the media does not get our attention from time to time, but so do users and our own team, more often than not. We make decisions based on our policies, our values (which are listed here today), and our mission. As it relates to removing subreddits, just yesterday we released our annual Transparency Report for 2021. We removed more than 400,000 subreddits last year. The vast majority of them were for being unmoderated or for content manipulation. But you’ll see about 13,000 subreddits were removed for a variety of other policy violating reasons.
Far and away the most important of our stakeholders are communities. Reddit does not exist without them. That’s why I think it’s important that these values be public, so everyone knows what our priorities are. Of course, we make decisions to support the business when we need to, but in the long term the business exists to support our platform.
Comment by Cahootie at 17/02/2022 at 20:51 UTC
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Thank you for responding. My comment was partialy fuelled by some general frustrations with moderation (plus five or so beers), but it's nice to get feedback directly from the top of the company, and I appreciate having general ongoing discussions with admins through our own channels.
Comment by heythisisbrandon at 17/02/2022 at 19:25 UTC
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Passing on all the tough questions I see.