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Wow! I didn't expect something like this from such a big subreddit. I expect the admins will just take it over though.
Depending on how many other subreddits do this, they won't be able to run all of them on their own.
Admins may take it over, but a big default sub like that has a big moderation team, and they are all volunteers. I expect the admins won't be able to find suitable replacements to match the level of free labour they've been getting
I have long suspected that many moderators are actually paid by third parties with their own interests. I wouldn't be surprised if reddit was able to sell mod positions or entire subs outright to corporate or political actors.
China and Russia will no doubt gladly help
Exactly
Gonna be a spam fest there for a while if they replace the present mods to open the sub forcibly.
The admins will take over all the high profile subs. You know it
Mods of niche subs are harder to replace. As a finn, I'd like to see what reddit does if our native language sub went out indefinitely. Big subs have visibility though, and can make headlines.
Do they have the manpower to manage them tho?
This protest is supported by the overwhelming majority of reddit users, it's not just mods decision, if they replaced the mods of "my" subs, I wouldn't be happy at all about it.
If admins replace mods, all user should start spamming those subs with all the worse things they can think of, see how well they deal with it lol.
Nah, they will just nuke mods until the top mod pledges compliance. There are plenty of people out there looking to get drunk on a small amount of power.
In practice, what will happen is that a lot of right wing trolls and provocateurs are going to jump into the top mod spots on big subs.
I am pretty sure they've been running r/soccer for a while now, to protect Reddit Inc from being taken to court by the super litigious football authorities
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Let them take over lol, see how well they manage actually working on their communities for a change :think_bread:
Sure, but from what the mods have been saying in the AMA, Reddit neither has the staff nor the expertise to take over one let alone many subreddits.
I think they'll just outsource the content moderation work to a third-party.
But they would have to pay for that. In light of "we want to be more profitable" this move would be quite counterproductive.
And once they do that, there will be very little difference between Reddit and every other social media site. They'll be shooting themselves in the foot.