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Can you explain how and why a subreddit gets taken away?

• gdulli 8y ago
  I'd imagine it's like accounts, where it can happen without explanation or any reply when you ask for one.
• BucketSort 8y ago
  I didn't get an explanation. I'd like to know as well.
• TazeTSchnitzel 8y ago
  reddit.com/r/redditrequest lets people request control of a subreddit that has inactive moderators
  • BucketSort 8y ago
    I created the subreddit and brought on moderators I watched over for years, then about 8 months ago I was removed suddenly without any warning or reason. When I reached out to the admins they replied with an automated response. It truly pisses me off because this was a good will project for me and I was an archangel of the sub. It only started to bother me that they did this when the usurper mods started supporting a third party platform in an effort to potentially move people off the sub, which I found to be suspicious and now I can do nothing about it. It really left a terrible taste in my mouth.
• dredmorbius 8y ago
  Any moderator who is inactive for 60 days can have their moderated/owned reddits reclaimed. As an example, Tales by Toxlab (https://old.reddit.com/r/TalesByToxlab https://old.reddit.com/r/TalesByToxlab) is a subreddit of personal stories by a single person ... who died in 2016. By Reddit's rules, anybody could claim that sub for any purpose. The xkcd sub was taken over by Holocaust-denying neo-nazis (https://www.dailydot.com/news/xkcd-reddit-moderator-drama/ https://www.dailydot.com/news/xkcd-reddit-moderator-drama/). That was eventually recovered. I've maintained a sub since five years, and yet haave now ownership in it. For a sub that's merely topical that might be acceptable, but this sub is not.