Something big is happening, as Reddit seems to have purged literally every NSFW sub they know. Reason is always “unmoderated” despite some of the banned subreddits being fully moderated.

Edit: seems to have been a bug in automation (thanks @lefty7283@lemmy.world):

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModSupport/comments/1ii67mt/_/mb3fewv

It’s still a good reminder on how quickly a community (or communities) thousands of people enjoy and in some cases rely upon can disappear.

        • almost1337@lemm.ee
          21·
          18 days ago

          I mean, one has to ask why they were setting up automated banning of these subreddits in the first place.

          • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
            53·
            18 days ago

            The reason for all of them was unmoderated. So it seems to me like they have/are testing a method to auto ban unmoderated subs. Not that crazy, imho.

            • Jomn@jlai.lu
              7·
              18 days ago

              If they are really testing things like that, it’s quite worrying that they did it on the production server…

                • bishbosh@lemm.eeEnglish
                  2·
                  18 days ago

                  I see, I assumed trans_surgeries wasn’t a nsfw sub, so I was weary of why it would be in the list with the rest.

                  • SecondaryAnnetagonist@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                    71·
                    18 days ago

                    NSFW doesn’t mean literal porn it means “what would be potentially catastrophic for the prudes at work to see on my screen out of the corner of their eye”.

                    As it turns out, anyones’ loins falls under that definition because vivimos en una sociedad.

                    And taking a scythe to anything with that tag is much simpler than actually being an arbiter of what is and isn’t “degenerate” porn for the sake of this batshit prudish regime.

                  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
                    1·
                    17 days ago

                    It probably just looks for subreddits with a lot of NSFW flagged posts and they got the parameters wrong for what triggers the “is this unmoderated” part. Unmoderated NSFW subreddits probably are the target of this tool. Just my guess based on the context.

    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
      15·
      18 days ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out they’re making a ban list for all these communities, but the ‘glitch’ was that someone turned it on before whatever PR move/manufactured scandal they were going to use to justify it was ready to go.

      Or this was just a test fire to see how people would react.

    • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
      9·
      18 days ago

      That’s a pretty big glitch. 1. You have a nuclear button. 2. The omega thermal nuclear cluster bombs are pointed at a particular target

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      18 days ago

      Uh huh. Like the glitch that put T_D on the front page - the entire front page.

      One of those funny coincidences that keeps happening.