GambaKufu

Only on criminal law.

As I understand it, the sub being flagged NSFW as a whole means Reddit can’t sell ads on it, whereas general subs with NSFW content are considered fine (like AskReddit, where “what’s the sexiest sex you’ve ever sexed?” comes up about twice a week). The subs would need to be flooded with NSFW content that is upvoted above anything SFW for several days and a campaign to highlight this to advertisers to effect change in this way, and I’m sure the admins would yell at them before it got that far and the moderators would crumble again.

Reddit is gambling - so far correctly - that the mods care too much about the subreddits they’ve spent years building and maintaining to walk away, so they will cave on any protests as soon as the admins get involved.

The only way this will have any real impact is “good” moderators walk away and leave the running of the key ad-friendly subs to newbie inexperienced moderators who will cause serious damage.

Most sites that rely on user generated content are a huge black hole of investor cash (Meta and YouTube are the only ones I can think of that aren’t) and have a natural lifespan where increasingly desperate attempts to extract value from it eventually kill the site. It seems like everything is going downhill at once because the web stopped innovating sometime around 2010 and the unprofitable experiments became pillars of the online experience. It’s why I’m excited about the fediverse - a return to community-led projects at last.