Daily Bard Digest 2024-10-17

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Here's todays official post from the BARDCHIVE:

02/24/20 18:24:23 with a score of -27: https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/f8y9nx/spring_forward_into_reddits_2019_transparency/fiosz3y/?context=8

Edit: This comment has attracted a lot of p-dophiles defending their loli waifus. Please go to therapy and leave me alone.

You could reasonably have expected this.

And, though I am not an admin, I have read the content policies repeatedly and apply them every day as part of what I do on Reddit.

The content policy about sexual or suggestive content involving minors says, outright, that there are no exceptions -- and that, when in doubt (and having to raise the question counts as doubt), don't post it.

Which means that "cartoon porn involving minors" is a violation.

Is there a reason why subreddit such as the one I mentioned are allowed to stay

People continually frame their question in this manner. It's almost inescapable that this question is framed in this way.

They should, instead, ask "Is there a reason why very few people, or no people, are reporting to the admins specific actionable content in the subreddits in question?".

Reddit does not, and cannot, have employees proactively reviewing the content posted to the site.

If it doesn't get reported, it doesn't get actioned.

That's why subreddits such as /r/AgainstHateSubreddits are necessary, to organise community efforts to get content policy violations reported.

Here's a better question:

How would you go about organising a community effort to report violations of the Content Policy against Sexualised Minors, without simultaneously inviting participants to view such content (an activity which itself potentially carries both civil and criminal liability) --?

Let me assist you in that question from a position of experience in wrestling with that question : You don't. There is no ethical, moral, or legally advisable approach to "Organise a volunteer community around evaluating content that is potentially child porn and thereby also distribute that content".

That answers the second question, and both of those inform and thereby bring the unfortunate answer to your question, the first question:

Some communities get shut down and some don't because some communities get reported and some don't, and there's no viable model of encouraging people to report violations.