On the other hand: What took ’em so long? Jailbait was shut down, what now? A few months ago?
The admins must have been aware that the exact same crap was happening in copycat subreddits all over Reddit soon after Jailbait was shut down. Why was another campaign necessary in the first place?
I don’t think the Reddit admins can take the moral high ground here. They will only do the right thing when you threaten them with bad PR.
(I’m guessing they reacted so fast this time because they know that those kinds of things can escalate quickly and national press attention is not nice to have.)
Speaking as an interested outside observer, my opinion is that the personal connections between a few of these subreddit owners and reddit's admins were a stumbling block. Business and PR is now overwhelming those friendships.
I didn't get this impression. It seemed to me that while the admins found the content personally distasteful, they did not want to erode freedom of speech. This is why it "took so long"; it was a debate, not a clear-cut decision (in their eyes).
It seems like the potential PR/legal fallout has now outweighed any philosophical musings.
The admins must have been aware that the exact same crap was happening in copycat subreddits all over Reddit soon after Jailbait was shut down. Why was another campaign necessary in the first place?
I don’t think the Reddit admins can take the moral high ground here. They will only do the right thing when you threaten them with bad PR.
(I’m guessing they reacted so fast this time because they know that those kinds of things can escalate quickly and national press attention is not nice to have.)