It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests.

It’s not like they couldn’t put a stop to blackouts before, as seen with the third-party app fiasco, but Reddit has now made that tactic entirely impossible. Mods will now need to get permission from Reddit admins before they can make a sub private. Makes me wonder if they’re about to do something controversial again soon.

  • @Suppoze@beehaw.org
    19•7 months ago

    What remains as methods of protest after this? I wonder what would happen to a subreddit if it’s moderators would simply stop moderating all together…

    But I guess admins could always make someone a moderator, there’s always someone willing to have a power trip.

    • @Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
      1•7 months ago

      If I’m recalling correctly, a couple of the larger subs had mods stop completely, and reddit just replaced them with power mods

      • Norah (pup/it/she)English
        2•7 months ago

        That wasn’t just larger subs. They changed the rules for requesting a takeover of a sub, and there are hundreds of subs it affected. There are even cases of it being really dangerous, there’s a shroom hunting sub that is poorly moderated and has had life-threatening advice left up.