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kleinbl00  ·  3445 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reddit changes community guideliness, bans subreddits.

The issue Reddit faces is simple:

If they want to control content, they need the tools to control content. If they lack the tools to control content, they must rely on social engineering.

I would go as far as saying anything with nudity should be well-firewalled deep into Reddit. Require a credit card at least. But the twin problems with this are (1) see previous comment about tools (2) 80% of Reddit's traffic, as of 2011 at least, was porn search. And yes. "Jailbait" was one of the principal search terms.

There's a world of difference between the traffic stats Reddit advertises and what a paid report from any of the CPM sites will give you. Reddit is a porn haven.





steve  ·  3445 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't use reddit often - so perhaps I'm blissfully unaware - but is it really a

    porn haven
?
kleinbl00  ·  3445 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Knew a guy in charge of "the internet" for all of one of the big 5 studios (Sony, Warner, Universal, Disney, Paramount). Bigtime redditor. Tried to sell said same studio on Reddit. Said same studio paid for the actual traffic reports, as opposed to the stuff Reddit usually hypes.

Reddit is radioactive with porn.

steve  ·  3445 days ago  ·  link  ·  

hilarious... I mean - I've known that they had the jailbait thing and the fappening thing - but I thought those were flashes in the pan.

MAYBE I SHOULD GO THERE MORE! Ha!

blissfully unaware and naive.

kleinbl00  ·  3445 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They don't exactly publicize it. In fact, they hide it pretty well. But the ridiculous balkanization of interests that subreddits make possible?

Yeah, loans itself well to fetishes.

compuguy  ·  3445 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That would explain why some corporate filtering/firewall tools blocked reddit for a time a year ago....