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View submission: The history of the /r/xkcd kerfuffle.
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.
Comment by Wyboth at 09/02/2014 at 01:28 UTC
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I don't know. The PMing thing sounds like it would bury other PMs from different users for different reasons even more. Maybe a separate subreddit would work. The problem with the 6 months thing is that some of those subscribers could've gone inactive since then, so they wouldn't be able to sign the petition. If 16% of the subscribers who subscribed in the past 6 months went inactive, but the rest signed the petition, the head mod wouldn't be removed because of those inactive users. One system I could see that would work would be to only allow users who have made a comment or post in the subreddit in question 2 months prior to the posting of the petition to sign it. That way, only active users will be allowed to sign it.