That’s a recent quote from Reddit’s VP of community, Laura Nestler. Here’s more of it: This week, Reddit has been telling protesting moderators that if they keep their communities private, the company will take action against them. Any actions could happen as soon as this afternoon.
Not exactly. Most subs have more than 1 moderator.
Plus tons of mods moderate many subreddits. It’d be a much more complex statistic
That’s a big point. There are a lot of VERY prolific moderators, especially on the more popular subs.
Many subs do, but not all mods do all things. /r/AskReddit has about 41 million subscribers, 71,479 comments + 3,669 posts per day (or 75,148 total) https://subredditstats.com/r/AskReddit They have 34 moderators https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/about/moderators How many submissions that don’t survive are SPAM? If you’re a spammer and you hit an active subreddit like that, it could help market your porn site a ton. If /r/AskReddit lost 10% of their moderators that’s 3 or 4 mods. That would hurt. Not that /r/AskReddit is protesting.
Reddit appears ready to toss out moderators who do not cave in. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23778997/reddit-remove-mods-private-communities-unless-reopen Surely the old “If all the mods become inactive for at least 60 days, someone can request the sub on r/redditrequest. The first person who requests it gets it.” I’m sure they will want to backfill positions but on highly active subreddits, that could be a daunting task and I guess we’ll see what hits the fan.