I think it has become a different issue on reddit though as they have defaults. So it is more about caring what the newbies will see and caring that millions of people who only subscribe to the defaults and a few others who might have wanted to read it didn't get to.

Sure you can say make your own subreddit and they probably will, but when we are talking about a subreddit with 5 million subscribers it is becoming like censoring a major newspaper.