I run a moderatly successful Subreddit (~200.000 subscribers), but I want to stop. I have no interest in moderating it anymore, but Reddit as a company has totally made it clear that it is viewing subreddits as its own property:

  • As far as I know I can’t take a subreddit of this size private anymore
  • If I just stop moderating, people still can post and will post problematic content that I don’t want to see online
  • If i stop moderating, somebody else can “claim” the sub and will be the new moderator, which I also don’t want

Does anybody here have experience in stopping a subreddit that doesn’t lead to Reddit just placing new people in control? I’ve already removed the option for the sub to be recommended to users and for it to be shown in “high traffic feeds” (which always led to nazi showing up btw), but I also was thinking about a way to restrict who can post or to set extreme high karma requirements for posts. Or are there any other options?

  • cronenthal
    61·
    12 hours ago

    You can’t really. It’s that moment when you realize you never “owned” the subreddit in the first place, all your work belonged to reddit.

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      1740·
      11 hours ago

      And frankly he’s being incredibly selfish to try this. 200,000 people apparently enjoy his sub, but now that he’s bored with it he’d rather see it destroyed than let someone else handle it.

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        311·
        10 hours ago

        Might not necessarily be as narcissistic as you imply. If this person created the sub, and is still the only mod, then it wouldn’t really exist without them.

        I’m not saying they own it, but if you’ve built something from the beginning, even if the work isn’t 100% your own it’s extremely difficult to abandon it. It’s similar to open source software. How would you like it if some corpo, lobbyist, PsyOps operation, or straight dumbass, took the thing you built and co-opted it for personal gain? Just like software, they may feel an obligation to ensure it won’t fall into the wrong hands or be bastardized.

        The Reddit corporation doesn’t give a fuck. They are the enemy of the entire user base.

        • FaceDeer@fedia.io
          52·
          6 hours ago

          Might not necessarily be as narcissistic as you imply. If this person created the sub, and is still the only mod, then it wouldn’t really exist without them.

          No, but maybe it can exist without him. Out of 200,000 subscribers someone could want to step up and take over.

          The Reddit corporation doesn’t give a fuck.

          200,000 people might give a fuck.