Comment Look at how they treated the r/Canning mods. (Score 5, Informative) 72
Up until today, I was the top mod of r/Canning. Prior to the blackout, our users voted https://www.reddit.com/r/Canni...”>a whopping 88% in favour of shutting down the sub, with the majority of those voicing that it should be a long-term shutdown.
And so we followed the democratic choice of our members and closed down with everyone else. Not long after, https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCo...”>threatened that if we didn’t revert back to public, we’d be replaced. We continued to push back against their bullying, pointing out that the subreddit had not been abandoned (as we continued to respond to mod mail from users on a daily basis), and that we were doing was in line with our users wishes, and that if they wanted us to re-open, they had to restart negotiations with 3rd party app developers, give them reasonable API pricing, and give them a minimum of 6 months to adopt the new rules (they were given 30 days).
The late last week, Reddit threatened us again. https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCo...”>We were given 3 days to come up with a plan to re-open, and once again told them if they wanted us to reopen, they had to meet our demands, and that we wouldn’t cave to their bullying.
The r/Canning mods were all “canned” by Reddit today. The subreddit has been moved into Restricted mode (people can read, but nobody can post), and it has no moderators.
Great job with that mod outreach effort there, Reddit. We were whipped with the olive branch. They’re nothing but a bunch of hypocrites — fall in line and do free work for them on their terms, or you’re out on your ass.
Yaz