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.
Welcome to lemmy. Sorry for the circumstances that drove your community here. We won't repeat the mistakes of /r/
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.
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/
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”
They seem to be just their to tongue bath the boots of spez and his IPO. Hell for that matter if they are also a top mod on a few big subs, they might be banking (literally) on the IPO being good. Would there be any reason to see the initial stocks would be open to current mods for all the subs before the open public? (I dont know if that is allowed in these types of matters)
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.
So are you telling me UGMadness was an asshole, by design...?
Thank god we have a new community here.
What a massive piece of shit.
You might even say he was an asshole
Thanks for providing receipts. Hope we can get the community to come here.
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.
Thanks a lot for sharing. What a shame.
Well welcome to lemmy, sorry that happened. Such a dick move.
So the real assholes are mods we meet along the way... What an asshole.
How many subreddits has this happened to now? What a clusterfuck. The whole site has gotten so bad.
What a piece of garbage.
I just deleted my account, and thereby ending all my moderation activities rather than taking part of the drama.
Lol, oh the irony.
Keep your mod teams clean boys and girls.
This is INFURIATING!!!
What is the discord server? What an AH
Regardless of the shitty circumstances, I want to welcome you here and hopefully we can rebuild bigger and better.
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.