Several subreddits had begun allowing porn and not safe for work content to protest Reddit. In response, the platform has removed entire moderator teams from the affected subreddits.
For those keeping up at home, “encouraging the submission of sexually-explicit content in previously safe-for-work spaces” is now against the rules, since marking a subreddit NSFW is also against the rules.
But what it really boils down to is their system not requiring users to opt back into a subreddit after it switches to NSFW. It’s an edge case. So they call it a rule violation instead.
For those keeping up at home, “encouraging the submission of sexually-explicit content in previously safe-for-work spaces” is now against the rules, since marking a subreddit NSFW is also against the rules.
But what it really boils down to is their system not requiring users to opt back into a subreddit after it switches to NSFW. It’s an edge case. So they call it a rule violation instead.