We have a responsibility to protect Reddit and ensure its long-term health, and we cannot allow actions that deliberately cause harm.

Truly, a harm for the platform when the moderators of /r/assesgonewild take their subreddit private for a week in protest. So far up their asses.

Read: "Our users got so pissed at us that it jeopardized our IPO. Now it could actually effect something like our stock price, so fuck 'em". Seriously people, just leave

my guess would be old.reddit disappearing.

Funny, me being here can be considered a protest against Reddit for the last year, and it's still working fine.

Reddit makes an anti-user change. In other news, grass is green.

I haven't been on the site in over a year and nothing since then has convinced me to go back. Maybe I'm lucky that I'm not in any Reddit-only communities, but it could also just be that I treat those communities as though they don't exist and never had a reason to join one as a result.

What’s Reddit?

If all Mods simply stopped moderating, Reddit would be dead next week

You could still automatically delete all new posts and comments or something like that I suppose

You know what? I don't care and I stopped reading this article after one paragraph because I found that I couldn't be bothered to go on. During the reddit exodus I was pissed off about how they would ruin something good, but I've long since lost interest in what happens on that site. Honestly I was a tiny bit surprised that it still exists. Like who the heck goes there still?

What remains as methods of protest after this? I wonder what would happen to a subreddit if it's moderators would simply stop moderating all together...

But I guess admins could always make someone a moderator, there's always someone willing to have a power trip.

Sounds like Spaz is about to have another Numbnuts Moment.

I truly don’t understand how anyone does the free work for a corporation to moderate a subreddit. Steps like this seem to treat them like employees and they’ll largely just chug along with it for… what? Notoriety?

Reddit is giving its staff a lot more power over the communities on its platform. Starting today, Reddit moderators will not be able to change if their subreddit is public or private without first submitting a request to a Reddit admin.

~~More power by having less power. I stopped reading here. Yeah, The Verge never disappoints.~~ Edit: My bad. The Verge was correct this time. Guess if I read the article then I would understand.

And the stock went up…

Oh so its now completely impossible to stop a brigade by shuttering a subreddit for a day or two without begging some pea brain Reddit stooge. That won't lead to anything putrid happening to small and medium subreddits on a regular basis I hope.