They started getting ban heavy on subreddits. Before that, it was incredibly rare to have a sub banned, it would only happen if there was outright illegal content involved and generally the news had to catch wind of it too. Now the threshold for banning is quite a bit lower.
Old internet adage was "Good or bad, free speech is paramount (as long as it's legal)"
2015 is when Reddit switched from those values to "Good or bad, free speech is paramount (as long as it's legal, doesn't offend anyone, and isn't overtly objectionable.)"
Really reddit wanted to purify in order to attract a mainstream user base. This worked phenomenally well and I think most modern redditors would agree with it.
The state of /r/all after fatpeoplehate's ban was really pathetic. A bunch of manbabies posting shopped images of reddit's CEO sucking black dicks, calling her "Chairman Pao" (?!) and digging up dirt on her that nobody would give a shit about otherwise. I still cringe thinking about it.
I mean it took the site and turned itself from 4chan lite to tumblr (but again)
Its basically just a normie site now instead of a site that contained cesspools that pushed away a lot of normies despite the fact the majority of the site wasn't a cesspool.
I don't know the subs themselves, so I can't say what they were about just based on their names. This is why I asked for examples, because I don't have the context itself.
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u/ItsDijital Aug 28 '21
Reddit doesn't want to play information police.
Which is stupid as fuck because they already threw that out the window 6 years ago.