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If they force subs back open, mods all over the site should go on strike. If the admins don't value mods enough to honor their word and follow their own rules, they should see what an unmoderated reddit looks like. Maybe that will be a wake up call.
I was a mod and just quit entirely. Fuck them.
I think mods should just do a bad job at modding. Silent quitting ftw. Let bots through, let spam pass through. At this point reddit made it clear they don’t want to work with mods.
If they replace the mods and add the ability to vote out mods like they said, community should just repeatedly vote out the scabs.
Or sabotage it by only voting for the worst mods.
Won't happen because the votes aren't actually going to be votes. Reddit will just claim a majority voted in favor of kicking out the current ones, and then claim that no one wants to kick out the ones they instill
Yeah it’s not like Reddit is a governmental body here lmao. What’s the repercussion if they fake a vote? Downvotes?
Do mods have the power to just nuke their subreddit? That'd be the biggest move. If a few big subreddits were to do this, that'd be an instant and significant loss.
Just make a python bot that auto removes every single post and comment from the subs. That would completely kill Reddit in a matter of hours
This'll do it once you identify the right buttons: Selenium. Pick the WebDriver for your browser, and then start writing code to pull up a browser and start pretending to be you clicking the buttons.
I know there's Selenium IDE on there that's easier, but it's too fragile for anything of this scale. You could record it logging in and then hitting delete once, and then it fails because it can't find the next delete link.
I imagine somebody inside reddit has already considered that as a possibility, assuming it's something they can do, and will have a plan involving backups to restore them. Assuming the backups aren't full of deleted posts or garbage by the time they realize they need them.