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.
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.
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.
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
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.
You’re the same group of mods who all teamed up and went dark to silence subreddits you disagreed with.
You also regularly remove posts that have thousands of upvotes because of vague rules like
“No low effort content”
“no recent reposts over 6 months”
“all posts must abide by Hanlon’s Razor.”
Locking threads because you didn’t like the jokes in them
Welcome to lemmy, but I hope you don’t bring this kind of powermodding into the fediverse. It’s a growing place, so it doesn’t need such a high level of moderation. Also users have a lot of power over the mods. They can see every action you make and make their own community with the same name and rules, but on a more open instance.
I just posted a link to this on the sub for shits and giggles expecting it to either not work or get banned within minutes. Nope, it’s there and people are pissed. Guess he’s not even nodding his newly stolen sub
Honestly, chances are Reddit didn’t even ask them either. They could have been dead in a ditch for years for all Reddit gives a shit, they just need the content public again asap. And I would not put it past them to “access” a dead mod account to achieve those ends
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.
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