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I've never been on reddit before, but all this drama over "supporting" creeps & perverts by going there has made me consider joining up. Psycnet, you seem to be holding an amorphous, anarchic entity to the same standards as a person. It is not a person. It is the efforts of a vast collection of people with different goals and mores.

It sounds to me like there is a clique of pederasts on the site. There are probably also cliques of car enthusiasts, wine aficionados, square-dancers, amateur astronomers, ham radio operators, and movie buffs. Difference is, the pederasts are going to be both more tightly knit and intent on accumulating power as they are (rightly) oppressed and made pariahs. That some succeeded in their short-term goals is not at all surprising, and the best that can be hoped is that their activities are kept to a minimum and that their unwise decision to gather publicly will be exploited by law enforcement to find them out and punish them when they transgress.

Boycotting the site, however, does nothing. If it did not exist, something similar with the same problems would. If you are that concerned, going there, searching out inappropriate content and publicizing it would be far more effective. Yelling at clouds is not.