[stainablesteel]

that was the first post, they shut down the re-opened

when they re-opened only mods could post, and it was a daily discussion thread

then there was a sticky, a poorly named one, where apparently there was another poll about what to do with the sub.

next comes a day when they plan to shut the sub down and the comment section is filled with people saying they didn't know this was happening and that the sticky was vaguely named.

so, no, i'm not referring to the june 7th post

[Bystander22]

I'm not sure they were hiding anything; maybe you just missed it among the thousands of other posts collectively across thousands of subs about the blackout protest. There was also:

* June 11: 'r/Python Will Black Out on June 12 at 00:00 UTC'

* June 12: 'By community vote, r/Python will Return to a Blackout'

* June 16: 'An Update about our Community' (text started with links, 'Here is a summary of the changes which prompted the recent Blackout. Here's our announcement for doing the Blackout....' and then 'Hence we wish to take another poll of community feedback...'

* June 28: 'By community vote, r/Python will Return to a Blackout'

Looks like the volunteer r/python mods were doing their best to keep everyone involved in the decision-making and informed of the outcomes while also juggling that volunteer activity for a for-profit company with their paying jobs and real-world responsibilities.

[stainablesteel]

> * June 16: 'An Update about our Community' (text started with links, 'Here is a summary of the changes which prompted the recent Blackout. Here's our announcement for doing the Blackout....' and then 'Hence we wish to take another poll of community feedback...'

i'm confused about your post, is this 4 topics? was this all one long title? what was this except exactly as what i described it as?

and that's my point, it wasn't as transparent as it should have been

and if they want a blackout, so be it, but propose another place for people to aggregate. why destroy a community over this pettiness that's all but gone away since it happened? why does the same end result that happened in CrossValidated need to happen there too? what good does this do in the world?

its all passive aggressiveness when communication can literally solve everyones problem, especially when this was the issue with the reddit admins to begin with! why are they acting like the reddit admins by refusing to communicate properly? its all so ridiculous

[Bystander22]

>i'm confused about your post, is this 4 topics? was this all one long title? what was this except exactly as what i described it as?

It was one of many posts that the r/python volunteer mods made, giving everyone a chance to vote and discuss. Was it "hidden" as you say? I don't know - I don't think so, it was a vote-by-comment instead of reddit poll to reduce fakery, and it required some context so everyone knew what they were voting on.

Archive here: https://archive.is/WI5Ei

Good luck in your search for a new community. Perhaps drop in the discord server and see if anyone has suggestions for you. Link is on the sidebar of the archived page.

[stainablesteel]

right, the topic title isn't called "vote here", its not direct

and if you archived the post later to include all the comments on the post that came after, you'd see all the comments saying they didn't even know this was coming

and i probably won't need to find another community i'll just wait until these mods are dethroned by the admins