[hombre_fatal]

Kinda crazy how a lower mod can request a higher mod's removal. Pretty unhealthy precedent for a community where mods are already power hungry lunatics and your most obsessed power hungry mod who spends all day needlessly moderating the subreddit can appeal to reddit with "look how much more active I am than him; he barely does anything! So, gimme the subreddit pls."

[Ekaros]

If the higher up mods clearly don't want to run the show anymore it is natural, just and right to rely those who do.

[faangsticle]

They are still running the show. Making your subreddit private is, or at least used to be, a perfectly legitimate way of running things. Remember, reddit added that feature to their website.

[bitshiftfaced]

Yeah I have a feeling that that feature may be going away after this all blows over.

[faangsticle]

There's still automod that you can use to just delete everything the moment it appears.

[ahahahahah]

> mods are already power hungry lunatics and your most obsessed power hungry mod

I mean, here you are just describing the mods that are holding these subreddits hostage. It seems appropriate for reddit to return these to the community in the case where the obsessed power hungry mod's behavior goes against what the community wants.

[bbor]

Have there been any subreddits that voted to open instead of stay closed? All the ones I’ve heard about were in favor of maintaining the protest

[slaymaker1907]

r/NewOrleans and r/SaltLakeCity voted to end it. There has also been rampant brigading from the pro-blackout side (see r/magicTCG, in addition to a Twitch stream brigade users on r/freemagic talked about voting in the poll despite being banned from r/magicTCG). I’m curious how r/FanFiction will go since they’re doing much more robust polling with karma requirements to stop brigades.

[BryantD]

There’s been brigading from both sides, it’s just more noticeable when it’s an outcome you personally disagree with. I’m having to remind myself that just because a) my subreddit has someone who’s never posted there vehemently arguing to stay open and b) staying open is winning the poll, that doesn’t mean it’s a brigade.

(There would be more people voting if it was a brigade, so I’m pretty sure it’s not. But emotionally it bugs me.)

[BryantD]

I run a thousand member subreddit that is probably going to vote to stay open. Insignificant but it’s a data point.

[atty]

Holding them hostage? The reddits I’ve been a part of voted to be closed.

[PrimeMcFly]

Normally it's only possible when the top mod has been inactive for a long time.