Comment by daimyoyo

The admins didn't want to ban /r/TheFappening but decided to after they got a flood of DMCA takedowns from the celebs lawyers. The sub actually broke the site because of how much traffic it was generating and that was almost 5 days before it got banned. They knew about the sub for several days and let it go because they have a hands-off policy and don't generally step in unless something drastic happens.