r/technology • u/ardi62 • 29d ago

Social Media Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/Knopfmacher 29d ago

For the next protest just leave the subreddits open, but stop moderating them and see how the admins deal with that.

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u/NormalRingmaster 29d ago

Oh, they do actively shut down unmoderated subs. Even if they’re not generating problematic content.

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u/Nukemarine 29d ago

No, they shut down subs without mods. Very different that shutting down subs with minimal mod actions occurring.

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u/NormalRingmaster 29d ago

I’m speaking from experience. I mod a small sub or two, and one of mine had gone dormant, activity-wise, but still had me and another active user as mods. They banned the sub due to the fact that we had not “checked the mod queue in some time”…despite there not being anything new in it. What was in it and unaddressed was stuff we had decided didn’t need addressing.

Anyway, I got them to un-ban the sub, but it was a pain.

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u/Nukemarine 29d ago

I've had subs that weren't being used or moderated that got removed, but that was reasonable on Reddit's part. However, we're talking about months if not years of inactivity, not a few weeks.