• dan@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    Making popular subreddits NSFW clearly hurts them, because Reddit has been forcing them to switch it off. They’ve also been forcing subreddits to reopen if they’ve been restricted. So those two options aren’t really very viable for every sub.

    I suspect this one hurts them too because this post is not visible any more unless you go directly to it or via the pics subreddit - despite it being newer and having more votes than other posts in there that are on the homepage and in popular.

    If even a quarter of the people that upvoted this post clicked through to the request form they’re gonna have tens of thousands of these requests to deal with.

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      1 year ago

      Well, switching to NSFW not only limits their revenue to to their self-declared restriction on advertising in those subs, but - and I think this is more important - those subs go dark for the purpose of reddit’s front page. They made the change a couple years ago to exclude all nsfw subs from r/all. There was no need to; r/best was already r/all without the NSFW subs. Any sub that is excluded from r/all is invisible to the eyeballs which pay the bills because that’s the default home page.