Just to tack on, we theoretically don't care about crossposts. I mean, we do think it's in bad taste to make entertainment and spectacle of people's very real problems, and we do have concerns about more sensitive people not wishing to post in our subreddit if they are going to be a source of voyeurism to others. However, we're not so naive as to not acknowledge the human interest aspect of our subreddit, nor are we in denial that we are running a public subreddit. The issue is that practically, crossposts to our subreddit ultimately lead to brigades of all kinds. We see influxes of users with no history in our subreddit making comments that aren't in line with our subreddit rules and seek to escalate conflict to have their fun. At a more subtle level though, we see comments receiving upvotes and downvotes not on the basis of their utility to the poster seeking guidance, but on the basis of whether they feed the brigadiers hunger for making jokes or picking fights. They are essentially seeking to subvert the culture and purpose of our subreddit to meet their needs. We understand that there is no stopping the occasional determined troll, but the reddit platform itself shouldn't be used as a tool to allow these trolls to organize and seek to neuter the purpose of other subreddits.

As our subreddit has grown to greater than 450k subscribers, we have taken significant steps over the last two years to minimize the conflict and sources of non-constructive behavior in the subreddit. Even at our size, we still personally warn users of their behavior and tell them about removals, having some lengthy discussions with them as needed. We are doing our due diligence to not simply automate away our troubles, and we are taking the significant time required to try and keep the culture of our subreddit from reaching the point of truly being deserving of ridicule and parody. Though things can and do get taken to extremes in our subreddit, such behavior has become more confined to a handful of posts. But, for most posts, most of the time, people are being constructive, helpful, and compassionate with one another. We are not expecting the admins to fix every issue of culture and rule-breaking we see because as moderators, that's our responsibility to either take fair action against it or accept it as the will of our growing community. However, as internal issues are our problem, we feel it's the responsibility of the admins to make external issues their problem. We just can't see the value or purpose in allowing subreddits that make it their unstated mission to create an environment where their users are tempted to subvert the cultures and purposes of well-meaning subreddits.