[yqx]

I assume you mean hands off approach?

Can you elaborate on the connection between this announcement and the platform's value as a platform that fosters discussion you perceive? Do you mean content moderation has turned the site into an echo chamber?

[uniqueid]

Reddit still feels like a biker bar to me. I don't know how many important conversations hinge on the ability to use racial slurs. My naive take would be: few, if any.

The average age on Reddit is probably 12 anyways, and those tweens upvote factual errors, more readily than correct information. That's on any topic, political or not.

The rate of important problem-solving on Reddit is a big fat goose-egg: Reddit is a counterexample to "the wisdom of crowds."

[luckylion]

> I don't know how many important conversations hinge on the ability to use racial slurs. My naive take would be: few.

But that wouldn't be content policy, that would be tone policy. You can say incredible racist things without using any slurs. If you want to police the content, you'll outlaw saying racist things (or rather: things you perceive to be racist). If you want to police the tone, you'll outlaw the use of slurs, insults etc, but allow the content.

I assume that Reddit has an issue with the content, not its presentation.

[Darmody]

I wish the average age on Reddit was 12. That would explain a lot of things but it's far from true.

The biggest group on Reddit are millennials, those between 25 and 35 years approx. And it's pretty sad because they don't want to have a civil conversation with anyone. They only want to hear what they already think/believe.

The real value Reddit has it's the small niche subreddits that fly under the radar. Small communities that are not dragged by the hive mentality.