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istara  ·  3212 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit changes community guideliness, bans subreddits.

The issue I had with /r/jailbait is that it clearly involved photos where the age could not be verified, nor the user permission, regardless of violentacrez's supposed moderation. (Did he personally track the subject of every image, the date it was taken, and their birth certificate?) It should never have been allowed from the get-go. I thought it highly unwise they allowed it as long as they did (same with upskirt subreddits).

While I think there are also serious risks with /r/gonewild and similar (in terms of pictures being posted without permission, the best mods in the world can't totally police that) at least its intention is self-posting. That was never the intention of /r/jailbait. Its aim was to post images of teenagers who looked borderline age of consent.

Ultimately the issue is whether Reddit ever needed to be a porn site to gain sufficient traction? Maybe it did. Maybe it was simply a business decision to tolerate (and still tolerate) all that shit.