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Mod of /r/tumblr removed during blackout (famichiki.jp)

submitted 1 year ago by DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social to c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

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#redditmigration #reddit One of my friends is a mod of a very large subreddit that went private for the blackout. Last night she received a message saying that she had been stripped of her moderator rights and the subreddit was taken public again. To be very clear, the subreddit members had specifically voted in favor of going private. It seems like reddit will stoop lower and lower to try and break the blackout. I'm seething.

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[–] sethboy66@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The point is that mods are not infallible and can go off the deep end; without an ability to remove them it could lead to any mod being able to single handedly kill a sub. Seniority works simply based on when one was modded, the earliest mod has the most seniority. This means that only the top mod could do great harm unchecked, rather than any of the many mods a sub may have being able to.

Subs will also have differing levels of moderators, where some mods won't have the ability to remove others.

[–] zalack@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Any system will have scenarios like this. Requiring a majority of mods could lead to gridlock if enough mods stop being active. User vote would be prone to abuse by brigading or bots.

Seniority is the simplest: you make the sub, it's yours. The escape hatch is either Admin action or someone else making their own sub with blackjack and hookers.