Reddit is telling protesting mods their communities ‘will not’ stay private : reddit

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Reddit is telling protesting mods their communities ‘will not’ stay private (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm sure opening up all the high-karma-only subs is gonna go over real well.

[–] sijt 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've been on reddit a long time, over 17 years, and I'm a member of some private subs that happen to have some quite influential users in them. It would be really interesting to open those up to the public to see what reddit influencers are saying in closed spaces, and the amount of gaming etc. that goes on between prominent users you see all across the site.

Admittedly, at least the subs I'm in are relatively quiet these days, but in years gone by they'd basically decide what was going to be popular, who was going to mod which subs etc.

[–] TheRealBob 8 points 2 years ago

You can’t just drop this info without giving us the tea. Tell us more.

[–] kamenlady 2 points 2 years ago

Each sentence of your made my heart beat faster.

[–] vimdiesel 2 points 2 years ago

Honestly I think that 90% of reddit never commented and just read stuff so there should be a huge drop off in new comments vs historically, especially in those "popular" subs.