[eggbrain]

Your top three points ring true (in a nutshell, people won't change their default filters), but the same could be said in general about participation in a community -- e.g. the people that struggle against the moderators in a community are usually not the ones passively viewing content, but more the power-users -- those who heavily comment, post, etc.

The power-users also (in my mind) determine the community -- if they feel restricted by not being able to post (as the parent link talks about) from heavy-handed moderation, they'd also most likely be the ones willing to change their filters.

> I believe that reddit doesn't want their users to be able to "turn off" moderation, even just for themselves, which you would be able to do by removing all filters [...]

To be fair, at the most unfiltered level, I was still imagining the content would still be "filtered" to cater towards the site-wide rules, and nothing else.