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For example a political post in s/nopoliticshere can be moved to s/politics by the mod of s/nopoliticshere.

This accomplishes several crucial things:

1) Prevents censorship (and drama) by not removing the content. The same thread exists, just in a different sub and still shows in s/all.

2) Grows niche subs. Maybe nobody goes to s/politicalmemes but they will if they like the content that gets moved there from s/funny.

3) Keeps content relevant to the sub in two ways - subs get relevant content imported from other subs, irrelevant content gets removed from the other sub.

Discussing this in IRC the main concern was abuse. A mod can dump a bunch of posts into other subs. A potential safeguard would be for mods to disallow transferred content from other subs. When another mod tries to transfer content there they get an error and have to choose a different sub. And of course the receiving sub can just transfer the thread again if they wish if they allow transferred content.

There still has to be a full deletion option for illegal content, but I think those instances are few and can be handled through an admin reporting system.

For example a political post in s/nopoliticshere can be moved to s/politics by the mod of s/nopoliticshere. This accomplishes several crucial things: 1) Prevents censorship (and drama) by not removing the content. The same thread exists, just in a different sub and still shows in s/all. 2) Grows niche subs. Maybe nobody goes to s/politicalmemes but they will if they like the content that gets moved there from s/funny. 3) Keeps content relevant to the sub in two ways - subs get relevant content imported from other subs, irrelevant content gets removed from the other sub. Discussing this in IRC the main concern was abuse. A mod can dump a bunch of posts into other subs. A potential safeguard would be for mods to disallow transferred content from other subs. When another mod tries to transfer content there they get an error and have to choose a different sub. And of course the receiving sub can just transfer the thread again if they wish if they allow transferred content. There still has to be a full deletion option for illegal content, but I think those instances are few and can be handled through an admin reporting system.

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[–] Polsaker 4 points (+4|-0)

We could test this by enabling post transfers only between defaults

[–] PMYA 1 points (+1|-0)

I think this is a great idea. That eliminates people being pissed at their content being moved out of defaults, and will sort content better.