[paulmd]

those subs may wither but they're not a big revenue source or a big deal in the grand scheme of things. And if the current crop of users leave it doesn't mean nobody is interested in that topic anymore, so the odds are good that users will return in the future.

If the mods are still gone at that point, there's abandoned-subreddit procedures that will be executed.

And that's the part that mods are trying to exploit for griefing with the "it's not closed, we're just not letting anyone post"/"we're only letting people post unfunny memes in protest"/etc. I'm not touching you, I'm not touching you.

Like it's just kind of funny that the mods are literally Going Galt and just like would happen in the real world, they're panicking with the realization that the world is pretty much going to move on without them.