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coffeesp00ns  ·  3240 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit changes community guideliness, bans subreddits.

I can't say I'll miss any of it, especially /r/transfags, which recently had "lol you don't pass" discussions around pics of a 16 year old trans kid. Yeah sure, you have a right to be allowed to make fun of people, I even encourage it in many aspects - but perhaps you should question your motives when a significant amount of your entertainment involves beating other people down to make yourself feel better.

That said, this is a pandora's box, and there's no way of undoing this. As someone mentioned elsewhere, now any "hate" subreddit, or "disagreeable" subreddit that continues to exist long term can be construed as being tacitly accepted by Reddit administration. It's basically a giant game of whack-a-mole that they're guaranteed to lose. This is a wide sweeping policy that is completely indefensible and unenforceable in reality. It will either completely destroy the website as it stands currently, or (in a far more likely situation) do absolutely nothing.