Over on Reddit, /r/AssholeDesign was taken over by a moderator that had been radio silent for over two years. The linked Imgur album contains modmail screenshots and our entire conversation after calling them out for this betrayal.
Yup, every sub that participated or said anything against reddit's choices is going to have their mods removed. Even if you went public when reddit asked you to.
That last message to /u/ModCodeOfDoWhatWeSay is a bit heartbreaking, like there's somehow still a chance that this is all one big silly misunderstanding and if only Reddit knew all the facts, they would absolutely revert that decision.
Reddit doesn’t give a shit they are just happy that they can lay themselves on the back that they got a subreddit to “cooperate” without removing an entire mod team. They just had someone else do it for them :))
I always thought a subreddit was created and if the creator stepped down, they could decide to hand it over or nuke it, similar to a discord server or something. Never realized the "I made this" meme was reddit in a nutshell. I'd be pissed if some of the communities I've spent years building got handed off to someone else without my say.
I once made a sub, and no one joined it. I then found out that you can't shut one down. Every. You can abandon it, and reddit will hand it over to the first person who asks for it, but once a sub is open it can never, ever be closed.
You can hand it over though. Or at least, that is how things used to go.
There's a hack for this: remove all mods including yourself, subreddit is now unmoderated, report the unmoderated sub to admins, they nuke it. However the name won't be available again.
I just don’t have time to moderate 3 posts in 8 years. Live/Work balance being what it is…
My first post was a great photo of a cat behind a DM screen. So I asked the poster if I could use it as a banner image. She wanted to be made a full admin or no.
Honestly i get that you are angry/disappointed on a personal level. But its pretty normal reaction from reddits side. You were not cooperative to their request to open up the sub so they searched for someone who would do it.
I dont want to defend them, i allready cleared my account over there but from a business perspective its a normal reaction. If your employees (even if they work without payment) dont follow your instructions you search for someone who does follow them.
And the new mod might be a prick for backstabbing your protest but thats just a opinion. If there are enough users who want to keep using the sub, regardless of reddits shitty behaviour, its ok to reopen it and none of the old mods has a right to hold it "hostage" for their protest.
It's a privately owned site, they can do whatever the fuck they want. Power tripping mods have been a problem this whole time anyway. I'm glad reddit is dying and i'm glad the mods are too.
Thats your opinion…as long as the company pays the servers its their right to manage them as they want. And its the right of everyone of their customers to leave the platform if they dont like it (thats what i did).
Maybe volunteer would have been a better word than employee but that doesnt change the essential part that its reddit whos paying the bills for the servers and the technical staff so in the end they have the last word.
But thx for replying instead of just stupid downvoting.
hi, this was entertaining to read really happy to see loud disobedient mods being replaced and removed you have no sympathy from me. when it comes to reddit, decide for yourself if you want to continue using it or not. don't hold the community hostage. you don't own it. grow up
Oh sorry I guess you own it then right? Poor baby lost his community so sad. You literally only think as far as "I don't like it so it's bad". Besides the fact the post shows they were still giving people access to the community the whole fucking time you ass-clown.
I know for a fact you read the first part of this and said "I know exactly what this is about" and show down to the comment section to post a bunch of bullshit.
So why do you think you are owed reddit communities again?
are random mods owed control over reddit communities? I'm very happy for the protests, but also happy that the power tripping mods are losing that power. It's a win-win.
The entire point of a protest is to cause inconvenience and annoyance. It’s how you get people to pay attention. Otherwise you’re just the crazy man yelling at clouds.
You should have redirected your community somewhere else to begin with. It’s not your site. They make their own rules up. You played chicken with the Hoover dam.
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