Was rather foreseeable but seals the deal for me. I will will waste my time here.

The cops are moving in with tear gas and rubber bullets...

/r/ModCoord is polling subs, a lot of support still for indefinite blackout

How many people think any such "election" Reddit holds will be a sham?

If you put people in charge who don't know / care about particular communities in charge, there could be huge trouble.

You know.... like the legal advice subr×ddit being moderated by cops. Which it is.

As of now, more than 80% of our top 5,000 communities (by DAU) are open

I'm a bit paranoid that this could be a technical truth because the communities still closed have dropped in DAU.

Edit: Checked the blackout tracker, of the ones listed 205 are still closed or restricted, so it's probably an accurate claim, though it seems about half of the participating subreddits are still closed.

the idea that a cabal of mods were going to take things in a good direction was always unsound

Union busting 101 - claiming the organizers are lazy and trying to skirt work and fire them asap

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...

They already removed some mods, it's not a threat it's Spaz being a jerk and awful person.

Reddit is already dead. Old.reddit will be removed soon.

Hahaha you know before this many people didn't think of reddit as corporate corporate. They scewed themselves and ruined their goodwill

With WHO? Who's gonna take over that wasn't already part of the mod teams?

Spez “this isn’t impacting our bottom line” surely is acting like it is. Let the fire begin. Turn off all mod tools, all spam filters. Let the website turn into a shithole.

I mean, yes, ofc they are going to eventually do this. The team at Reddit isn't going to just let their popular subreddits shutdown indefinitely. They just kick the mods out, moderate themselves or bring some other scabs in to do it.

I think it's the very problem of Reddit. Too much power at the top in a centralized way and too much power to mods of large subreddits with....more subscribers than countries have population.

I think the fediverse is just more the answer top to bottom for more community control.

I knew this is what they would do. :) OpenAI hired Kenyans at 2$/hr to train their AI chatbot. This is what Reddit will do. Hire Africans at 2$/hr to moderate the most popular sub and generate traffic, than try and recruit new volunteer mods, all the while going for the IPO.