This is gonna happen to every subreddit eventually. What remains to be seen is how long things last before subreddits start imploding.
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
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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
Yeah, they obviously won’t take a risk with ‘uncooperative mods’.
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.
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
It's already gathering up a storm of people angry about the change
Looks like it's been removed. I'm seeing a total of 7 posts since 2 weeks ago when sorting by new.
Is it still there? I couldn't find it. In the meantime, I posted this :D https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/14l8bj4/ads_that_look_like_tweets_with_minimal_sponspored/
It's been removed by the mods already lol
This is amazing
It's really flying under the radar.
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.
"You'll own nothing, and you'll like it."
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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 :))
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So are you telling me UGMadness was an asshole, by design...?
Welcome to lemmy. Sorry for the circumstances that drove your community here. We won't repeat the mistakes of /r/
Wow what a power trip for what exactly? If he's not even actively involved what does he want it for?
Let’s be honest, everyone here is on a power trip if we’re using the word “coup”
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Thank god we have a new community here.
So the real assholes are mods we meet along the way... What an asshole.
What a piece of garbage.
What a massive piece of shit.
You might even say he was an asshole
Honestly, chances are Reddit didn't even ask them either. They could have been dead in a ditch for years for all Reddit gives a shit, they just need the content public again asap. And I would not put it past them to "access" a dead mod account to achieve those ends
I just deleted my account, and thereby ending all my moderation activities rather than taking part of the drama.
Thanks for providing receipts. Hope we can get the community to come here.
Thanks a lot for sharing. What a shame.
Well welcome to lemmy, sorry that happened. Such a dick move.
How many subreddits has this happened to now? What a clusterfuck. The whole site has gotten so bad.
Regardless of the shitty circumstances, I want to welcome you here and hopefully we can rebuild bigger and better.
Lol, oh the irony.
Keep your mod teams clean boys and girls.
This is INFURIATING!!!
What is the discord server? What an AH
Damn bro, aint that some shit
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