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Something that Reddit admins and users constantly miss is: "its the mods that make a subreddit amazing". People openly talk about this as the reason that Hacke

Something that Reddit admins and users constantly miss is: "its the mods that make a subreddit amazing". People openly talk about this as the reason that HackerNews continues to be such a vibrant community. Replacing the mods will change the community, full stop. Could be for the better , could be for the worse.

stcroixx 3y ago
Some people feel that way. Me, I'm all for basic site-wide rules and automated moderation, as little as possible, and let me decide on the rest. Open it back up. There's no way it should just re-direct people to a competing site because that's what the old mods prefer.
- malermeister 3y ago
  That community was run by the old mods. Without mods, no subreddit. You're welcome to start your own with your mod preferences, though.
  - stcroixx 3y ago
    That's just not true. If the old mods have left and set it to private before they did that, all that's needed is to simply make it public again. Admins can do that. No need at all to start a new one. They have no right to squat on this name to direct traffic to their new site indefinitely.
BitwiseFool 3y ago
>"Something that Reddit admins and users constantly miss is: "its the mods that make a subreddit amazing"." Conversely, the mods can also be mercurial and act like little tyrants over the subreddit. /r/StarTrek in particular is known for stifling criticism around 'new trek' and spinoff subreddits like /r/DaystromInstitute were created by people tired of the mods' actions. It also raises an interesting question as to why the mods have so much power in the first place and if any community recourse should exist when subscribers do not like the mods' actions. For one thing it does seem weird that the mods of r/StarTrek are allowed to unilaterally close the subreddit.
- nerdix 3y ago
  I think there should be some sort of election for mods. Voted on by the community. Maybe have a minimum level of activity in a sub required to cast a vote. I also don't think mods should be able to turn /r subs private. The private subs should be on a different path like /p. If you turn a /r sub private then it converts to /p and the /r subname becomes available again. I suspect that some reform around private subs will be instituted in the near-ish future since it is the primary tool used by mods in the boycott.

stcroixx 3y ago

Some people feel that way. Me, I'm all for basic site-wide rules and automated moderation, as little as possible, and let me decide on the rest. Open it back up. There's no way it should just re-direct people to a competing site because that's what the old mods prefer.

malermeister 3y ago
That community was run by the old mods. Without mods, no subreddit. You're welcome to start your own with your mod preferences, though.
- stcroixx 3y ago
  That's just not true. If the old mods have left and set it to private before they did that, all that's needed is to simply make it public again. Admins can do that. No need at all to start a new one. They have no right to squat on this name to direct traffic to their new site indefinitely.

BitwiseFool 3y ago

>"Something that Reddit admins and users constantly miss is: "its the mods that make a subreddit amazing"." Conversely, the mods can also be mercurial and act like little tyrants over the subreddit. /r/StarTrek in particular is known for stifling criticism around 'new trek' and spinoff subreddits like /r/DaystromInstitute were created by people tired of the mods' actions. It also raises an interesting question as to why the mods have so much power in the first place and if any community recourse should exist when subscribers do not like the mods' actions. For one thing it does seem weird that the mods of r/StarTrek are allowed to unilaterally close the subreddit.

nerdix 3y ago
I think there should be some sort of election for mods. Voted on by the community. Maybe have a minimum level of activity in a sub required to cast a vote. I also don't think mods should be able to turn /r subs private. The private subs should be on a different path like /p. If you turn a /r sub private then it converts to /p and the /r subname becomes available again. I suspect that some reform around private subs will be instituted in the near-ish future since it is the primary tool used by mods in the boycott.