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Good. Going private is a ridiculous nuke button for mods to have at their fingertips. Years of history becomes lost once a subreddit goes private. It's not even

• Ukv 2y ago
  I feel Reddit blocking search engines that don't pay and killing off archives and third party clients is a far more worrying long-term threat to information accessibility than the moderator blackouts that were protesting the former (unless there's more recent context I'm missing due to having moved off reddit).
• dehugger 2y ago
  It was one of the only tools that heavily-raided subs had to deal with raids of hate-speech/illegal content. Basically every LGBTQ+ subreddit, for example.
• johnnyanmac 2y ago
  Outside of protests, there are plenty of legitmate reasons to go private. The biggest reason being extreme brigades (including content against site rules that can get the sub banned), and a lack of resources to moderate in real time. That's partially why for years mods have relied so much more on "locking" posts. Which IMO is even worse and punishes all participants over what is often a few threads that should be locked individually. If mods responded half as fast to that as they do when privating big subreddits, I'd have less sympathy for this change. >Hopefully, next they change the "unmoderated subreddit" punishment from going private to restricted submissions and locking comments. stuff like potential illegal content is exactly why going private/removing the sub is the punishment instead of restricting submission.
• soyeahok 2y ago
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