Sounds like a fair and reasonable plan to deal with these rogue mods. Subreddits are mostly maintained by their users, who contribute posts, comments and votes.

Sounds like a fair and reasonable plan to deal with these rogue mods. Subreddits are mostly maintained by their users, who contribute posts, comments and votes. In comparison to this, the mods do very little work. For them to unilaterally decide to destroy a set of subreddits is an attack on all the other users. I've seen some people argue that the mods are legitimately on strike. I disagree - it would be different if all the users of a subreddit decided not to comment and post for a while. That would be equivalent to a strike. For the moderators to decide to block the subreddit instead is more like some middle manager padlocking the building gates shut so no-one else can get to work, just because he has a grievance with the company owner.