I’m guessing at some point the admins will step in and replace the mods.

100%.

I'd be surprised if /r/videos stays dark past the cutoff date of the original blackout.

The pretense of Reddit being open, fair, and ran by the users is long dead. Reddit is now closer to something like Facebook than it is to the site I joined in 2010. The only different is that Facebook pays their moderation staff.

I’m enjoying the drama just a bit too much I think. There’s something quite satisfying when the ‘product’ bites back.

The apathy spez has for the users is on show every time he does anything.

Preaching to the choir here, but indefinite blackout is only thing worth doing

I don’t think Reddit cares if for 2 days their users drop

I hope the current mods are serious and have a fail safe process to remove all sub reporting rules, AutoMod, and other restriction.

If reddit admins resort to forced take over, let the sub reset and be open to all videos extreme, nsfw, gore, and bot post. Let's see how well the sub is without mods.

See this is the problem with reddit. On a site like Twitter, pissing off your power users doesn't matter much. If anything you lighten the server load some if they leave. You have plenty of users to replace them.

On reddit, pissing off the power users means losing the unpaid volunteers keeping your site running. Sure, reddit can just reopen the sub, and probably will. But who's going to moderate it? A sub that big needs a serious mod team. What happens if several other large subs follow them? How is reddit planning to staff all these subs? Will whoever they grab know what they're doing? If enough mod teams resigned in one go reddit would have no way to keep the site working. Even if they find new volunteers it doesn't mean they'll know how to moderate a huge community.

omg, kbin and Lemmy are about to get hit with waves of new users. the poor servers

People might find this link handy. It shows a list of the subs that have committed to the blackout and shows when they have gone private

https://reddark.untone.uk/

It's one hell of a brave move. i think reddit will just re-open the subreddit and put new mods in though. sadly

I wonder if many other subs will stay dark past the initial going dark protest. I just happen to exclusively use Apollo and have for years, so I support the mods in what they are doing.

Their very first point in the Q&A section is an interesting point that I think many of the old-guard Redditors may take, especially those in moderator positions. It is well known that Reddit sub moderation is all done on a volunteer basis. If a substantial number of moderators across some of the larger subs also feel this way, Reddit could see a big decline in the quality of posts and also, possibly, a rise in rule-breaking/hateful content that would severely degrade the quality of the site. I remember seeing a handful of r/SubredditDrama posts about rogue moderators doing something akin to a 'power trip'. I think some large sections of Reddit are in for a wild ride in the coming weeks/months.

Even if Reddit kicks these mods out and brings in their own, a lot of this moderation has been a labor of love and the replacements won't be 1:1.

If nothing comes out of this then Reddit is truly dead

Good. This is just what Reddit deserves right now.

To be honest, I find it a bit of an odd stance for them to take. To me, they, along with several of the other large subs, have never really seemed that interested in running their sub that well or in the interest of the community. You get into this situation where you have a big sub, millions of users, maybe a couple dozen mods, but out of those 2 dozen mods like 3 or 4 are active, and if you're lucky, one actually cares. You then run into a situation though where you have might have one mod who cares, but that particular sub has some kind of weird mod hierarchy where they can't even do much about it. The hoops you have to jump through to get them to deal with obvious karma farming bots, or for them to apply rule 1 without bias are far too many. I can remember a number of years ago, when they used to have the /r/videos meta sub, one of the mods directly said that they considered 'clickbait' titles to be a violation of Rule 5 but you'd never see them enforce it. The sub was probably fine if you came by once a month or something. But if you were one of those people who had a daily routine of say browsing reddit every morning after getting up, and /r/videos was a regular stop for you, it really didn't take long for the sub to start to wear on you.

One thing I hope we'll see in whatever the new hotness is, is more diversification in where discussions take place and where links and things are shared. The fact that most if it goes through maybe 2 dozen subs and a lot of mods in them are quite checked out really soured the experience.

I hope the current mods are serious and have a fail safe process to remove all sub reporting rules, AutoMod, and other restriction.

If reddit admins resort to forced take over, let the sub reset and be open to all videos extreme, nsfw, gore, and bot post. Let's see how well the sub is without mods.

/r/music announced the same thing a few days ago. Hopefully other major subreddits join in as well. But as already mentioned, admins will probably just reopen them and throw in new mods.