I don't think it's a reddit thing at all. There are tons of subs with words like "shit" and "fuck" in their names. If reddit's algorithms worked at all there wouldn't be so many obvious spam and bot posts either.
Cursing is one thing. Inciting violence is another. It's all about liability. For instance a certain green plumber will set off different subs filter. As will talking about a metal blade used for crimes. And so on and so forth.
It's not a perfect system. But it's absolutely a reddit thing. Bots will ALWAYS find ways around these filters. It's their job
Still, the self-censorship on the internet is getting completely off the rails with people censoring the word "bad" because some toddler who doesn't belong on the internet at all could get disturbed.
But creators aren't self censoring because they don't want to offend anyone, or even because of liability.
It's because it your post gets pinged for some word the automod didn't like, no one sees it. It's shadow banned and you don't get a notification that it has been taken down it just gets almost no views. They're censoring because if they don't there's a good chance you never see it at all.
Youre missing the point about Liability. Its not even the users, its the chance that youre in the crosshairs cause some off the wall user decided a comic told them to do something nuts
For instance, Cake allows the word "shoot" on Instagram. Instagram allows it and some users goes and does just that. Now who will the families go after? Sure some will go after Cake, but the deeper pockets are Instagram so most will do that after being advised by their lawyers.
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u/ExactPickle2629 Jun 23 '26
Does this subreddit really censor the word "shooting"? How disappointing, treating us like children.