[Extasia785]

They could re-open it. But the last time we had a popular unmoderated subreddit, it became a mixture of porn, onlyfan models and Donald Trump / Jeffrey Epstein posts. Good OOTL if you want to give Reddit a click in these times: https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/gfo102/what_i...

In the end Reddit and Mods are co-dependent on each other. Mods use the platform provided by Reddit, but Reddit uses the voluntary work of mods to have a usable platform. Reddit could exchange all voluntary workers with paid mods, but I doubt something capital-intensive like that is what they planned for their pre-IPO strategy.

[exreddit]

Imagine the return of /r/creepshots and /r/jailbait, but on defaults.

[stevenwliao]

Some users think "this platform is so good, it doesn't need moderation."

Somehow it never occurs to them that unmoderated platforms end up at best like 4chan and at worst like a site that gets shut down by the FBI.

[josefx]

Finally an answer to the question why /r/anime_titties exists as one of those weird topic seems completely unrelated to the name subs.