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essentially only has domain over the subreddit he controls. This means
that, unlike a website like imdb, where a moderator has free reign over
the entire website, a moderator in reddit only has powers in his specific
subreddit, while he is just a regular user on any other sub. This is
essentially like multiple police departments in a state, with their own
jurisdiction; a police from one jurisdiction has no powers in anothers
jurisdiction.
What this means, is that unlike most websites, where they have
a set of Terms of Service that stretch across the entire website, each
subreddit can lay out and enforce their own rules. A subreddit like ask
reddit has a specific rule where only questions can be asked; any
pictures or links submitted will simply be deleted, and the user will be
warned and reminded to read the subreddits rules. Another subreddit
may contain nothing but pictures, and wont allow any text based or
link based posts. These rules and their own willingness to enforce them
make reddit a very unique community.
Unfortunately, this freedom isnt exactly the best thing. There
are very controversial reddit communities that are allowed to thrive.
While protect and serve is a community full of law enforcement,
other communities exist that are against the police, like am I free to
go, a community where videos showing police brutality and citizens
violations of their constitutional rights by the police are posted and
shared. Other subreddits against the police are often crude and vulgar
even debate those that visit to harass and disrupt. Rather than censor
their users and visitors, they would rather positively engage with them.
This has resulted in their subreddit has having a respectable
reputation, and often one that changes other peoples views on them
and their occupation.
*overall, this was very well written! I really enjoyed reading about
reddit and what you had to say about it*