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Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ardi60@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] GaryPonderosa@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

plans to pursue changes” that would let regular users vote moderators out more easily

I think that's a good thing in the long run. A lot of reddit moderators are absolutely shit people, and having an actual process to remove them is a good thing.

It should go without saying fuck u/spez and that his motives here are absolutely malicious in nature, but I do see some small good coming from this.

[+] DLSchichtl@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

[removed by mod]

[–] Adubya@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then we also don't know if the action is just temporary to just remedy a problem before IPO or a serious consideration. Rolling it out quickly is moronic too because what about smaller subs & targeted harassment.

[–] techno156@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It might also cause some interesting problems.

What happens if a sub votes out all the moderators of a sub, before there are any new ones?

Could they remove Reddit devs from /r/Reddit or /r/Reddit.com? Being admins, they could probably just put themselves back on, but the imagery of them being forced off their own sub is a little funny.

[–] Helium@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty obvious that these tools only apply to dissenting subs… after this all blows over, there won’t be a single reddit employee even looking at this system

[–] hobocat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

They even explicitly stated that!

If there are mods here who are willing to work towards reopening this community, we are willing to work with you to process a Top Mod Removal request or reorder the mod team to achieve this goal if mods higher up the list are hindering reopening. We would handle this request and any retaliation attempts here in this modmail chain immediately.

This system is being implemented for the sole purpose of kicking out mods that are keeping subs private. It's absolutely retaliatory. There's no chance that they maintain this system as an actual long-term change to reddit's mod removal policies. It would be too much overhead to staff.