Doesn't every website that gets used by the unwashed masses eventually have to deal with this problem? How does facebook or youtube deal with it? How did AOL deal with it?
Is the issue just that Reddit is run by a smaller team than these larger companies?
Facebook is obviously thriving as a business but arousing indignation and ire over their policies, which ban breastfeeding photos but allow hate speech.
So I woud say they have decided to live woth a certain ongoing level of shitstorming as a cost of doing buiness.
Youtube handles it via whack-a-mole. A friend of mine used to work in their community dept, and would tell horror stories about the things she'd see people put up.
My heart goes out to the censors who have to deal with user submissions (as opposed to network censors). I can only blanch at the job that people who manage Google Image Search have to deal with.
Is the issue just that Reddit is run by a smaller team than these larger companies?