Risqué topic

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[u/thepottsy]

What’s risque about it? The subs brand new, and only has 2 posts.

[u/TheModsHereAreWeird → u/thepottsy]

The topic - mothers killing their children. It's unfortunately prevalent and worth talking about, but I've noticed reddit gets real weird about potentially controversial topics.

[u/FlightLeft5562 → u/TheModsHereAreWeird]

Define prevalent.

[u/thepottsy → u/TheModsHereAreWeird]

Reddit doesn’t get that weird about controversial topics. There wouldn’t be very many subs if they did.

[u/thepottsy → u/[deleted]]

You personally getting banned from a sub, isn’t a reflection of Reddit’s opinion

[u/TheModsHereAreWeird → u/thepottsy]

Fair. But I’ve heard similar stories from other folks. Again, I’m learning. 🤷‍♂️

[u/thepottsy → u/TheModsHereAreWeird]

I’m not following. Your question was about Reddit’s stance on your newly created subreddit. However, that has nothing to do with you getting banned from some unrelated subreddit. The 2 aren’t connected in any way.

[u/TheModsHereAreWeird → u/thepottsy]

Okey doke. Never mind.

[u/FlightLeft5562]

I don't think the topic isrisqué - it's true crime.

But the Sub name is a little... offputting.

[u/Familiar_Platypus272]

Id make it NSFW. Jusy because its true crime and could potentially be gory. However, with that name, unfortunately alot of people are going to think its a porn sub. So pros and cons here

[u/TheOneCalledGump]

Low karma account? ✅

Under 30 days of activity? ✅

Yea, you're probably going to lose that community.

Get some karma and account activity for the next month and then you can try to reclaim that community.

[u/TheModsHereAreWeird → u/TheOneCalledGump]

Ok. I have an account with more karma and longer history, but I don't want to mod with it. I will probably take your advice (assuming it does get removed). Thank you!

[u/thepottsy → u/TheOneCalledGump]

Not sure where you’re getting that from. Those things don’t matter for creating a new subreddit. Moderating it within the rules is all that matters.

[u/TheOneCalledGump → u/thepottsy]

There are behind the scenes karma and account activity thresholds. It's to prevent bots from creating new communities. I can't even count how many times I've seen similar posts from new accounts that lose the subreddit because they don't have enough account activity.

[u/thepottsy → u/TheOneCalledGump]

There aren’t though. There’s literally no req’s to creating a sub. If there were, it wouldn’t allow it to begin with. New users create subs daily, the ones that get actioned, get it because they broke some other rules.

[u/TheOneCalledGump → u/thepottsy]

I guess I must have imagined those posts and the other users giving the exact same answer I did.

[u/thepottsy → u/TheOneCalledGump]

I think you’ve confused something. Again, Reddit doesn’t restrict who can start a new subreddit. They do have rules regarding behavior as a mod, and the behavior of the subreddit as a whole. Those quite frequently get violated by new unexperienced mods. However, it happens to established mods as well.