I believe these policies strike the right balance. Our most important policy over the last ten years has been to allow just about anything so long as it does not prevent others from enjoying Reddit for what it is: the best place online to have truly authentic conversations. Today, in addition to applying Quarantines, we are banning a handful of communities that exist solely to annoy other redditors, prevent us from improving Reddit, and generally make Reddit worse for everyone else. We will Quarantine communities whose content would be considered extremely offensive to the average redditor. One new concept is Quarantining a community, which entails applying a set of restrictions to a community so its content will only be viewable to those who explicitly opt in. Our policies are not changing dramatically from what we have had in the past. In a post on r/Announcements, Huffman specified the new policies further:
