Over on Reddit, /r/AssholeDesign was taken over by a moderator that had been radio silent for over two years. The linked Imgur album contains modmail screenshots and our entire conversation after calling them out for this betrayal.

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    1 year ago

    This is gonna happen to every subreddit eventually. What remains to be seen is how long things last before subreddits start imploding.

    • pizza_rolls@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Yup, every sub that participated or said anything against reddit’s choices is going to have their mods removed. Even if you went public when reddit asked you to.

      They will not risk this again closer to the IPO

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    1 year ago

    Oh boy, some 14-year old finally got his first power-trip boner! Congratulations to him for bending over.

    I hope the rest of you guys step back and let him enjoy the joys of modding alone or with other incompetent shills.

  • wildn0x@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I always thought a subreddit was created and if the creator stepped down, they could decide to hand it over or nuke it, similar to a discord server or something. Never realized the “I made this” meme was reddit in a nutshell. I’d be pissed if some of the communities I’ve spent years building got handed off to someone else without my say.

    • catwhowalksbyhimself@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I once made a sub, and no one joined it. I then found out that you can’t shut one down. Every. You can abandon it, and reddit will hand it over to the first person who asks for it, but once a sub is open it can never, ever be closed.

      You can hand it over though. Or at least, that is how things used to go.

      • thawed_caveman@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        There’s a hack for this: remove all mods including yourself, subreddit is now unmoderated, report the unmoderated sub to admins, they nuke it. However the name won’t be available again.

        • catwhowalksbyhimself@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Tried that. It didn’t take. Even though I tired remove myself, I was put back on somehow.

          And the unmoderated sub can be picked back up by anyone who requests it. It’s how a lot of old porn subs got turned into subs about cats.

      • Drunemeton@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Still true!

        My one gift to humanity was r/dndcats and it’ll last as long as reddit does.

        😂🤣😂

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            1 year ago

            I just don’t have time to moderate 3 posts in 8 years. Live/Work balance being what it is…

            My first post was a great photo of a cat behind a DM screen. So I asked the poster if I could use it as a banner image. She wanted to be made a full admin or no.

            So no, and it went downhill from there.

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    1 year ago

    I just posted a link to this on the sub for shits and giggles expecting it to either not work or get banned within minutes. Nope, it’s there and people are pissed. Guess he’s not even nodding his newly stolen sub

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    1 year ago

    Welcome to lemmy. Sorry for the circumstances that drove your community here. We won’t repeat the mistakes of /r/

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    1 year ago

    That last message to /u/ModCodeOfDoWhatWeSay is a bit heartbreaking, like there’s somehow still a chance that this is all one big silly misunderstanding and if only Reddit knew all the facts, they would absolutely revert that decision.

    • Haha@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Reddit doesn’t give a shit they are just happy that they can lay themselves on the back that they got a subreddit to “cooperate” without removing an entire mod team. They just had someone else do it for them :))

  • Omnimater@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wow what a power trip for what exactly? If he’s not even actively involved what does he want it for?

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      1 year ago

      Let’s be honest, everyone here is on a power trip if we’re using the word “coup”

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      They seem to be just their to tongue bath the boots of spez and his IPO. Hell for that matter if they are also a top mod on a few big subs, they might be banking (literally) on the IPO being good. Would there be any reason to see the initial stocks would be open to current mods for all the subs before the open public? (I dont know if that is allowed in these types of matters)

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, chances are Reddit didn’t even ask them either. They could be dead in a ditch for years for all Reddit gives a shit, they just need the content public again asap.