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Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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.

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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    What remains as methods of protest after this?

    Deleting your account and leaving the site. Reddit clearly doesn't care about the users, and hasn't for a very, very long time. Remaining there justifies their actions.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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.

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