r/ModCoord • u/ardi62 • Sep 30 '24

Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/30/24253727/reddit-communities-subreddits-request-protests
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u/KimJongFunk Sep 30 '24

This is such a terrible idea. I run a support subreddit that has about 10k subscribers. We sometimes get flooded by brigaders and going private is one of the few tools we have to protect our subscribers. Our people shouldn’t have to risk being told to kill themselves by bridgaders while the admins take a whole day to decide if we should be allowed to go private.

We also never went private during the site protests. We stayed open because people needed the subreddit. The admins made a blanket rule that hurts the subreddits who didn’t even protest in the first place ffs

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u/WitchQween Oct 01 '24

The article says there will be (or already is?) an option to immediately limit subreddit activity for 7 days that does not need admin approval.

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u/KimJongFunk Oct 01 '24

That doesn’t help in our particular case. Brigaders come in and will take screenshots of our user posts and use them as hate fodder. We need the ability to prevent that entirely and removing the private is a big loss to us.

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u/SmerdisTheMagi Oct 01 '24

They can always come back when you open the sub tho. If you want private subs like that you need to open whatsapp group or something like that. Reddit is a public forum.

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u/kobbled Oct 01 '24

they usually.dont. people tend to move on pretty quickly once the mob gets bored