Reddit is going to remove mods of private communities unless they reopen — ‘This is a courtesy notice to let you know that you will lose moderator status in the community by end of week.’ - eviltoast
Reddit will remove mods of private communities unless they reopen
www.theverge.com
The removals will happen by “end of week.”

Reddit has informed moderators of communities that are still private in protest that they will lose their mod status by the end of the week. Thousands of communities went dark earlier this month to push back on the company’s planned API pricing changes.

  • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Didn’t they make this threat already once? Is this like that parenting thing where you keep shifting the deadline but acting like there’ll be big consequences?

    • Niello@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      They also likely cannot do it. While they were sending pms to mods they completely failed at targetting private and restricted subreddits that aren’t part of the protest, including ones that have been privated or restricted way before this month. And people saying there will always be people to replace the mods forgot how not-smooth that is going to go. Besides, the more Reddit antagonise its user base the more unstable it looks. It seems that despite the traffic returning to normal, many ads still haven’t returned.