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Maybe, but then you have the problem of not all of a subreddit's readers seeing the petition. It'd be difficult to determine how many readers are active on the sub, and how many of those saw the petition. Besides, it would be easy for the head mod to tip off a community he supports to the petition, and have them come in and skew the votes in his favor. But! I think that's still a more favorable system than the current one.
Comment by graaahh at 09/02/2014 at 01:14 UTC
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My thought was that such a petition could be spread on an alternate sub, or the admins could simply see the people who pm them supporting an informal "petition" who are actual subscribers, who are on duplicate accounts, etc, to get a real number. And then if say, 85% of subscribers who have been subbed for 6 months or more PM the admins, then the mod is removed.