Over the past 48 hours, r/gaming has participated in the Reddit-wide blackout in protest of the API pricing changes Reddit is planning to roll out. Over those 48 hours, the behaviour of the Reddit admins has been disappointing. Admin has been stepping in and allegedly removing moderators and forcing closed subreddits open, to keep their revenue coming in, and the Reddit CEO has dismissed the Redditor’s concerns, saying it will all blow over.
The mod team here has considered keeping the subreddit private to continue the protest, but we said we would close down for 48 hours and we did, therefore we need to go public to hear your comments and discussion points. We as moderators are internally discussing further actions amongst ourselves, however we will be influenced if there is a strong message coming from the sub.
They should direct people to the lemmy gaming community
Reddit has been banning users and/or communities that redirect others to Lemmy.
Of course they would do that
I didn’t get banned but my post with a link to a Lemmy community was delisted without being removed within 10 min and the sub mods had no knowledge of it and couldn’t view it to approve it.
I am hoping subs go indefinite or stop moderation altogether, which might do more than just going dark. Seems like not much has changed with the 48 hour protest
A moderation strike sounds like a brilliant idea.
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And every single reply to that post is telling them go back to private indefinitely. Love to see it.
Did they nuke the comments? I don’t see any replies.
Every sub should go offline indefinitely. There is no point in allowing discussing on reddits server as that will only generate views for Reddit.
I knew they would eventually start removing mods from the top subreddits but man… Hope some other subs reopen and close again If the respective communities don’t mind