65 upvotes, 5 direct replies (showing 5)
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Ha. That'll happen when mods grow the balls to set their subs to private when the admin unilaterally pulls stuff like this.
Edit: Of course I know the admin could just kick out the mods and take over the sub. But they don't have the bandwidth to do that for every major subreddit that is concerned about this. If they did, they'd probably face a user rebellion and exodus. And finding enough capable mods to replace all the mods on even a couple of major subs? Hahahahaha, good luck. It'd be a complete and utter shitshow for weeks.
To put it another way, the questions, "What can the admin do?" and "What can the admin get away with doing" don't have the same answers.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/07/2016 at 19:12 UTC
40 upvotes, 2 direct replies
You know if they piss off the admins too much, they just remove the mod team and take it over. It's happened before.
Comment by Norci at 19/07/2016 at 19:43 UTC
10 upvotes, 0 direct replies
You know what really will happen? Admins intervening and setting the subs back to public, or promising to fix it all, like they did in 2015, while doing jackshit.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/07/2016 at 19:03 UTC*
9 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by LukeBabbitt at 19/07/2016 at 20:03 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The admins could very easily turn it back on and allow new moderation. They own the website after all.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/07/2016 at 21:16 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
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