This is gonna happen to every subreddit eventually. What remains to be seen is how long things last before subreddits start imploding.
Yup, every sub that participated or said anything against reddit's choices is going to have their mods removed. Even if you went public when reddit asked you to.
They will not risk this again closer to the IPO
Oh boy, some 14-year old finally got his first power-trip boner! Congratulations to him for bending over.
I hope the rest of you guys step back and let him enjoy the joys of modding alone or with other incompetent shills.
So are you telling me UGMadness was an asshole, by design...?
I always thought a subreddit was created and if the creator stepped down, they could decide to hand it over or nuke it, similar to a discord server or something. Never realized the "I made this" meme was reddit in a nutshell. I'd be pissed if some of the communities I've spent years building got handed off to someone else without my say.
"You'll own nothing, and you'll like it."
I once made a sub, and no one joined it. I then found out that you can't shut one down. Every. You can abandon it, and reddit will hand it over to the first person who asks for it, but once a sub is open it can never, ever be closed.
You can hand it over though. Or at least, that is how things used to go.
There's a hack for this: remove all mods including yourself, subreddit is now unmoderated, report the unmoderated sub to admins, they nuke it. However the name won't be available again.
Tried that. It didn't take. Even though I tired remove myself, I was put back on somehow.
And the unmoderated sub can be picked back up by anyone who requests it. It's how a lot of old porn subs got turned into subs about cats.
Still true!
My one gift to humanity was r/dndcats and it’ll last as long as reddit does.
😂🤣😂
Star a dndcats Lemmy community hahaha
I just don’t have time to moderate 3 posts in 8 years. Live/Work balance being what it is…
My first post was a great photo of a cat behind a DM screen. So I asked the poster if I could use it as a banner image. She wanted to be made a full admin or no.
So no, and it went downhill from there.
I just posted a link to this on the sub for shits and giggles expecting it to either not work or get banned within minutes. Nope, it’s there and people are pissed. Guess he’s not even nodding his newly stolen sub
It's already gathering up a storm of people angry about the change
Looks like it's been removed. I'm seeing a total of 7 posts since 2 weeks ago when sorting by new.
Is it still there? I couldn't find it. In the meantime, I posted this :D https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/14l8bj4/ads_that_look_like_tweets_with_minimal_sponspored/
That last message to /u/ModCodeOfDoWhatWeSay is a bit heartbreaking, like there's somehow still a chance that this is all one big silly misunderstanding and if only Reddit knew all the facts, they would absolutely revert that decision.
Reddit doesn’t give a shit they are just happy that they can lay themselves on the back that they got a subreddit to “cooperate” without removing an entire mod team. They just had someone else do it for them :))
Well welcome to lemmy, sorry that happened. Such a dick move.
Welcome to lemmy. Sorry for the circumstances that drove your community here. We won't repeat the mistakes of /r/
Honestly, chances are Reddit didn't even ask them either. They could be dead in a ditch for years for all Reddit gives a shit, they just need the content public again asap.
What a massive piece of shit.
You might even say he was an asshole
Thank god we have a new community here.
Wow what a power trip for what exactly? If he's not even actively involved what does he want it for?
Let’s be honest, everyone here is on a power trip if we’re using the word “coup”
What word do you think would better describe the situation?
“Internet drama”, this isn’t a national government being overthrown, this is a bunch of piss babies pissing uncontrollably
You're not wrong, but coup sounded better as a title.
Pitchfork, I sympathise with you. You guys are the real team. This kid is just a scum with a dirty soul.
This is INFURIATING!!!
What is the discord server? What an AH
Thanks for providing receipts. Hope we can get the community to come here.
Not trying to be rude, but were you going to reopen the sub and be business as usual?
Sounds like they were gonna put it to a community vote
Thanks a lot for sharing. What a shame.
Honestly i get that you are angry/disappointed on a personal level. But its pretty normal reaction from reddits side. You were not cooperative to their request to open up the sub so they searched for someone who would do it.
I dont want to defend them, i allready cleared my account over there but from a business perspective its a normal reaction. If your employees (even if they work without payment) dont follow your instructions you search for someone who does follow them.
And the new mod might be a prick for backstabbing your protest but thats just a opinion. If there are enough users who want to keep using the sub, regardless of reddits shitty behaviour, its ok to reopen it and none of the old mods has a right to hold it "hostage" for their protest.
If your employees (even if they work without payment) dont follow your instructions you search for someone who does follow them.
If they work without payment, they're not your employees. And reddit isn't a registered charity either.
It is their site so they can technically do what they want, but it makes them assholes and is not "ok" as you put it.
Keep your mod teams clean boys and girls.
I just deleted my account, and thereby ending all my moderation activities rather than taking part of the drama.
What a piece of garbage.
How many subreddits has this happened to now? What a clusterfuck. The whole site has gotten so bad.
So the real assholes are mods we meet along the way... What an asshole.
Lol, oh the irony.
Regardless of the shitty circumstances, I want to welcome you here and hopefully we can rebuild bigger and better.
"coup"? wow, you're all really pathetic about a social media site, get over yourselves
This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.