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Well, you could stay private and continue to moderate as if it would always be a private sub, just have a few authorized users and a few posts a day to moderate...
What the hell lmao, literally 2 posts down on my feed is the Verge article from today which states:
While the company does “respect the community’s right to protest” and pledges that it won’t force communities to reopen, Reddit also suggests there’s no need for that; more than 80 percent of the top 5,000 communities by daily active users are now open
?????
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/15/23762501/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-interview-protests-blackout
The "key facts" thing linked in the article is hilarious...
As of Thursday, June 15, more than 80% of our top 5,000 communities (by DAU) are open), and we expect this to continue. ...
- r/nottheonion is asking users to vote, including a fun option that encourages people to take Tuesdays off
they voted to keep it closed.
Which makes this article even more interesting: they want to give users the possibility of voting mods out to put an end to the strike; and I genuinely hope that that backfires.
Especially because it's unclear how they'd give users the ability to vote on that, without it ending in a shitshow, considering the size of the platform....
I thought if the community agreed that they could be private.
I also thought that the black out didn't really matter for Reddit.
Guess they are starting to sweat.
Didn't they already do that on /r/tumblr? Why threaten what you already did?
Really digging their heels in
Really "Digging" their heels in, indeed.
I would think (hope) that any of the good, decent moderators have already begun the migration over and the replacements are just going to be awful. Many moderators of the big subs have been doing it for some time. Thats a lot of brain drain. I wouldn't want to invest in a company that wants those in supervisory roles to be bodies rather than quality contributors.