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While I absolutely love the playfulness in upending a sub’s theme a la steam, ultimately reddit probably won’t care much. As long as they’re getting sellable engagement, the topics are almost irrelevant.
I do think the subs going hands-up on moderating might be more effective. Because if you just leave the doors wide open, you’ll get flooded with bots and porn. Bots and porn for days.
Depends on if they stick with it, because it will become boring to most users and they'll go elsewhere.
How many advertisers will want to advertise on newly minted porn subreddits? Won't this have some sort of effect?