None of these communities violated rules. They didn’t just encourage users to post NSFW content, they switched the subreddit setting to NSFW which works with the visibility user controls reddit has had for years.
It does highlight the futility of waging a war with the owner of a platform on their platform though. These mods did everything right: abiding by all rules, ensuring by vote that their user communities overwhelmingly support the changes. But it doesn’t matter. Because it’s reddit, the admins hold all the cards. This has been kind of fun to watch and there’s really some brilliant moves by mods in these cases, but at the end of the day for real results the only way to win is to build a better community elsewhere.
More gaslighting bullshit from (ultimately) spez.
None of these communities violated rules. They didn’t just encourage users to post NSFW content, they switched the subreddit setting to NSFW which works with the visibility user controls reddit has had for years.
It does highlight the futility of waging a war with the owner of a platform on their platform though. These mods did everything right: abiding by all rules, ensuring by vote that their user communities overwhelmingly support the changes. But it doesn’t matter. Because it’s reddit, the admins hold all the cards. This has been kind of fun to watch and there’s really some brilliant moves by mods in these cases, but at the end of the day for real results the only way to win is to build a better community elsewhere.