One thing I really hate about the unmoderated thing, not just because of stuff like this, but archival purposes. A subreddit becomes inactive, the mods lose interest? It’s gone. You can’t view any posts ever made on jt.
To use a minor example, the Dolan meme subreddit is banned for being unmoderated. Now, there’s not much left of images of that meme. While there’s not much value in that specifically, imagine what could happen if, say, some tech support or IT subreddit got banned for being unmoderated. It’s well known how many in the IT field use Reddit for their job. So much documentation on many different systems could be gone forever.
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One thing I really hate about the unmoderated thing, not just because of stuff like this, but archival purposes. A subreddit becomes inactive, the mods lose interest? It’s gone. You can’t view any posts ever made on jt.
To use a minor example, the Dolan meme subreddit is banned for being unmoderated. Now, there’s not much left of images of that meme. While there’s not much value in that specifically, imagine what could happen if, say, some tech support or IT subreddit got banned for being unmoderated. It’s well known how many in the IT field use Reddit for their job. So much documentation on many different systems could be gone forever.
And all because Reddit really wants that IPO.