Oh boy, some 14-year old finally got his first power-trip boner! Congratulations to him for bending over.
I hope the rest of you guys step back and let him enjoy the joys of modding alone or with other incompetent shills.
This is gonna happen to every subreddit eventually. What remains to be seen is how long things last before subreddits start imploding.
Yup, every sub that participated or said anything against reddit's choices is going to have their mods removed. Even if you went public when reddit asked you to.
They will not risk this again closer to the IPO
Yeah, they obviously won’t take a risk with ‘uncooperative mods’.
I always thought a subreddit was created and if the creator stepped down, they could decide to hand it over or nuke it, similar to a discord server or something. Never realized the "I made this" meme was reddit in a nutshell. I'd be pissed if some of the communities I've spent years building got handed off to someone else without my say.
"You'll own nothing, and you'll like it."
I once made a sub, and no one joined it. I then found out that you can't shut one down. Every. You can abandon it, and reddit will hand it over to the first person who asks for it, but once a sub is open it can never, ever be closed.
You can hand it over though. Or at least, that is how things used to go.
There's a hack for this: remove all mods including yourself, subreddit is now unmoderated, report the unmoderated sub to admins, they nuke it. However the name won't be available again.
Tried that. It didn't take. Even though I tired remove myself, I was put back on somehow.
And the unmoderated sub can be picked back up by anyone who requests it. It's how a lot of old porn subs got turned into subs about cats.
Still true!
My one gift to humanity was r/dndcats and it’ll last as long as reddit does.
😂🤣😂
Star a dndcats Lemmy community hahaha
I just don’t have time to moderate 3 posts in 8 years. Live/Work balance being what it is…
My first post was a great photo of a cat behind a DM screen. So I asked the poster if I could use it as a banner image. She wanted to be made a full admin or no.
So no, and it went downhill from there.
So are you telling me UGMadness was an asshole, by design...?
I just posted a link to this on the sub for shits and giggles expecting it to either not work or get banned within minutes. Nope, it’s there and people are pissed. Guess he’s not even nodding his newly stolen sub
Is it still there? I couldn't find it. In the meantime, I posted this :D https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/14l8bj4/ads_that_look_like_tweets_with_minimal_sponspored/
It's really flying under the radar.
It's already gathering up a storm of people angry about the change
That last message to /u/ModCodeOfDoWhatWeSay is a bit heartbreaking, like there's somehow still a chance that this is all one big silly misunderstanding and if only Reddit knew all the facts, they would absolutely revert that decision.
What a massive piece of shit.
You might even say he was an asshole
Honestly, chances are Reddit didn't even ask them either. They could have been dead in a ditch for years for all Reddit gives a shit, they just need the content public again asap. And I would not put it past them to "access" a dead mod account to achieve those ends
This is INFURIATING!!!
What is the discord server? What an AH
Welcome to lemmy. Sorry for the circumstances that drove your community here. We won't repeat the mistakes of /r/
Wow what a power trip for what exactly? If he's not even actively involved what does he want it for?
Let’s be honest, everyone here is on a power trip if we’re using the word “coup”
What word do you think would better describe the situation?
Thank god we have a new community here.
What a piece of garbage.
Well welcome to lemmy, sorry that happened. Such a dick move.
I just deleted my account, and thereby ending all my moderation activities rather than taking part of the drama.
Thanks a lot for sharing. What a shame.
Great read thanks for sharing, and sorry for it happening.
How many subreddits has this happened to now? What a clusterfuck. The whole site has gotten so bad.
To be fair based on the quality of this community it's not much of an improvement on that front.
There's more posts that have nothing to do with design and are just people venting than there are actual posts of asshole design here.
There's still very few posts here so we haven't been strict with the definition yet.
Not trying to be rude, but were you going to reopen the sub and be business as usual?
Sounds like they were gonna put it to a community vote
hi, this was entertaining to read really happy to see loud disobedient mods being replaced and removed you have no sympathy from me. when it comes to reddit, decide for yourself if you want to continue using it or not. don't hold the community hostage. you don't own it. grow up
The entire point of a protest is to cause inconvenience and annoyance. It’s how you get people to pay attention. Otherwise you’re just the crazy man yelling at clouds.
"disobedient".
Oh sorry I guess you own it then right? Poor baby lost his community so sad. You literally only think as far as "I don't like it so it's bad". Besides the fact the post shows they were still giving people access to the community the whole fucking time you ass-clown.
I know for a fact you read the first part of this and said "I know exactly what this is about" and show down to the comment section to post a bunch of bullshit.
So why do you think you are owed reddit communities again?
are random mods owed control over reddit communities? I'm very happy for the protests, but also happy that the power tripping mods are losing that power. It's a win-win.
This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.