Social Media Thread of Social Media Drama

[Uncle]

reddit is actually interesting in that their model uniquely allows a situation like this

most protests require much more of a grassroots effort, informing the public, nobody crossing the picket line

only reddit could have a cadre of mods unilaterally shut down major discussion boards for millions of users, and have it not really hurt them personally, since it's not their site

and I'm trying to think of how reddit could "fix" this and stop this behavior and they can't, really

they could say, once your sub passes a certain threshold like 500k subscribers, all your mods can choose to become paid employees (and thus be fire-able and replaceable) or all your mods are forcibly removed and replaced by employed admins

if that were the case, trolls could artificially boost subreddits to make them "official" and un-close-able

even if reddit somehow claimed a bunch of subs and opened them, you still have to have mods, and those mods could just delete every thread and post and ban people at random

they're fucked...if the redditors actually care to continue the protest