>Aw dang, really? No other options except to remove 100% of threads containing the words "snowden" and "national security agency" and "tesla"? No. Either allow

>Aw dang, really? No other options except to remove 100% of threads containing the words "snowden" and "national security agency" and "tesla"? No. Either allow the posts and remove them once the discussion start and then deal with 100 "MUH FREEDOM OF SPEECH, !!CENSORSHIP!!, MY PRECIOUS KARMA!" threads or remove them as soon as they're posted. >Then only threads that a majority of people like would make it to the top That's part of the problem. People want to see thread like this - you'd see "NSA spying people" thread upvoted in EVERY SINGLE default subreddit if it was posted and allowed by moderators. Votes are horrible for determining what kind of content should or shouldn't be allowed. Especially for default subreddits since majority of people vote from frontpage and are not familiar with subreddit rules, or don't even notice which subreddit it is. People don't even read more than titles! You'll often see threads marked with "false information" flair, or people pointing out in the comments how the whole story is fake/wrong/etc. Those threads continue to gain upvotes after it has been proved to be wrong information. Do you really think that people would notice the subreddit and/or rules regarding that submission? >If you think about it, a system like this would allow for stories that only partly relate to technology, but are still hot topics that tech enthusiasts want to talk about, to make it to the top. Nope, read above. It would allow for stories people like (upvote) to make it to the top. And plus you have threads linked in other subreddits, IRC etc. that skews up votes too. ____ tl;dr: votes work in theory but fail miserably in practice, especially when dealing with large amount of voters.