What is shit, who determines that? That's the problem with a curated moderation style. One or more people are determining what they want to see which determines what you see, and if you're allowed to speak. And what they want to see is affected by their own intellectual abilities, prejudices, ideology.

I don't know why reddit mods bother at all, the upvote/downvote system somewhat organically (it is prone to being manipulated) censors content by the community. The only thing that really needs to be removed is illegal material like CP and stuff like spam, etc..

And it's such a big community, they have been able to get away with mindlessly throwing away users like they were nothing for at least a decade now. Like there's some endless sea of interchangeable contributers that you can whack-a-mole on whim and another will pop up. But it's not like that, the pool is large, but eventually you select for mediocrity long enough and you end up with mediocrity.

Moderation is hard even with people talented at it, and most people are not suited to it. Fuck, I certainly have royally dicked up before, and those reddit mods are not me.