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cma on June 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reddit Bans Five Communities In New Anti-Harassmen...

Why? Hackernews is way more heavily moderated and would never tolerate anything like those subreddits for a minute.

debaserab2 on June 11, 2015 [–]

It would be more accurate to compare Hacker News to a single subreddit than it would to compare it to reddit as a whole. Like reddit, hacker news has it's own rules and tolerances in place, but reddit as a whole attempts to leave censorship up to the subreddit moderators.

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