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I mean it just started up again today. Of course there aren't a bunch of active subs on the list.

Spacedicks is an American institution! This is an outrage! (Not really, but still.)

What advertiser would possibly want their content on spacedicks?

BRING BACK SPACEDICKS YOU FILTHY OUTER ORBIT GENITAL GOBBLING WHORES

I had managed to wipe spacedicks from memory but your mention brought it back. Thanks.

Ahh, so that's what happened to /r/spacedicks. That sub used to be posted in comments everywhere.

I'm actually not sure the API ever returns true to the quarantine attribute, even when a community actually is quarantined, for example with Ice_Poseidon:

https://www.reddit.com/api/info.json?id=t5_3aelr

It seems to only ever return null or false.

They've also essentially introduced a breaking change to about.json queries for a community that's quarantined too, because now it'll throw a 403 error:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ice_poseidon/about.json

Reddit is a private site, and the owners can do whatever they please with it, regardless of what I think.

That said, I'd have much less of a personal problem with the quarantining system if there were an automatically maintained list of quarantined subreddits that doesn't rely on third parties and questionably effective web crawlers. I want to have some mechanism to discover what's being kept off my feed and to say either "yeah, good riddance" or "maybe this was unfairly classified and I should subscribe."

Based on that list this charade is bullshit. /r/FULLCOMUNISM got quarantined?

My favorite part about that is the list of ones that are surprisingly not quarantined

Interesting subreddit, a lot of people defending some of the banned subreddits like the incel one.

All of the quarantined ones come up as removed or set to private when I try to see them

Especially when all of the quarantined subs are un-viewable

That's the point. Reddit is pro-censorship, can't be exposing the masses to wrongthink now can we?

Generally speaking, people as a collective, as is the case with pretty much any other social phenomenon. Like, your argument could apply to pretty much any aspect of content. E.g., “Anyone can laugh at anything, who decides what is ‘funny’?” “Anyone can be turned on by anything, who decides what is ‘attractive’?” etc. In fact, with some tweaking, it can be used with pretty much all language—“Anyone can call anything a ‘dog,’ who decides what a ‘dog’ is?” What you’re asking is actually something of a fundamental question in semiotics, and could be rephrased something like, “given the endless number of different ways different people can use the same sign, how can we meaningfully talk about what they refer to?”

The basic answer a semiotician might give you would be that although any word could be used by a specific individual for any referent, communities of language users are essentially forced, by the pragmatic requirements of communication, to use any given word in such a way that there will be a fairly consistent resemblance between its referents where there is similarity in the context in which it is used. That is, meaning is determined by use in a bottom-up social process.

This is simplifying things almost to the point of being misleading, but hopefully it gets the idea across of how we form a basis for talking meaningfully about what is ‘funny’ or ‘attractive’ or ‘a dog’ or ‘offensive,’.

It's never, ever, ever going to happen.

I would definitely appreciate an opt-in version of /r/all that includes quarantined content. I go to /r/all instead of /r/popular specifically because it isn't curated. Part of /r/popular's purpose is to be a curated version of /r/all that doesn't have porn or other "objectionable" content. If you start curating /r/all it kinda defeats the purpose of having both.

It just seems like a no brainer to give people control over the content they want. Otherwise Reddit is playing nanny and telling people what is and isn't okay for them to consume.

You won't get that option. The whole point of quarantined subs for reddit's admins is to attempt to starve "undesirables".

Phone can't even display quarantined subs gotta love censoring

Can we get an option to bypass this feature entirely?

Nope.

You'll sit there and enjoy the yellow stars reddit is handing out to wrongthinkers.

Signed Nolan T Jones

Are you talking about /r/politicalhumor, which was proven to have had more Russian bots than any other sub on this site?