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View submission: The history of the /r/xkcd kerfuffle.
One problem with that would be the small minority subs that are happily centred around a largely unpopular (on reddit) opinion but aren't doing any harm are then open to being closed down.
For example, I'm not sure on numbers, but say certain antifeminist subs (ie MRA subs and the red pill) banded together to bring down the feminism subreddit. If they organised a brigading session, they might well have larger numbers than the current subscribers, and eventually manage to "democratically" oust the current mods there, and instate their own by all subscribing at once, effectively making the subreddit unusable for its original purposes.
What this then leads to is pretty much every sub on private, and a real shutting down of anything that goes against the "hivemind". I think that's a shame, because one of the real benefits of reddit is that it connects people who share unusual ideas and opinions, and provides an outlet for it. Sometimes that's a good thing, sometimes it breeds awful things (check out the sidebar links!) but overall, I think censorship by hivemind is not ideal.
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