With the new Reddit policies, when a sub protests and goes private, could re-edit just step in, oust a moderator and switch it back to public?

  • cerement@slrpnk.net
    20·
    1 year ago

    they can and they have (they’ve also threatened subreddits into reopening, so r/pics is now only allowing sexy John Oliver pics) – but it will take a while to manifest just how bad an idea this is

    the problem is one of scale, something like 8800+ subreddits, several thousand moderators, but only a couple hundred admins (less now that Reddit is doing layoffs à la Twitter) – admins will be forced to moderate several hundred subreddits each without third party moderation tools, without any understanding of each subreddit, and (in many cases) facing an actively hostile community at this point …