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Its also a narrow topic subreddit with a specific goal.

That kind of moderation works under those environmental conditions - similar how some drugs work on certain types of body types and fail in others.

Other topics which are broad and have little general boundaries tend to get a lot harder to define.

Classic example would be where does porn stop and art begin?

In forum terms - politics, general opinion topics have more subjective moderation.

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Overall though, I agree - manual moderation is pretty much the best way to go forward.




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