I say they go NSFW to prevent advertising
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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That's what they would do if they're /r/PICS ("Posts Illustrating Community Sentiment").
Reddit admins have said they won't allow subs to become NSFW if they aren't actually NSFW. But "Posts Illustrating Community Sentiment" can be anything, even outright porn. And of course, the good moderators at /r/PICS would never allow outright porn without properly marking their subreddit as NSFW...
I feel like suspending the specific rules is the only viable long term protest. As much fun as John Oliver pics are, eventually people will tire of the meme.
Say that to r/AlzheimersGroup
and r/AnarchyChess ... and r/RaimiMemes
I think that's the point. Kill the sub for less traffic to Reddit.
That's pretty huge, since they're probably the biggest subreddit.
/r/funny is the biggest subreddit.
Dang I didn't realize how big of a land slide the last poll was.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14b2a6q/poll_decide_on_the_future_of_rpics/
-19.6K for returning to normal operations.
74K for John Oliver pics
Reddit is writing their own rules and they’ll rewrite this one to get their way. They’ll just force it back to SFW and remove any mods who undo it.
By forcing them to moderate their own subs, they would have to (ideally) pay their own employees to do so. Not only would this be expensive, but it would hurt them in the eyes of investors right before they go public.