Realistically, there'll be a lot of steps before admins start nuking modteams. Because the admins don't want to have to run a few thousand mod applications, and probably don't have the capabilities. My guess is that they'll ignore it for a while, maybe a week. Then they'll start sending out increasingly stern messages to subreddits' modmails. Maybe the big subs would have mod applications of some kind, but I can't see the admins caring about random <1M subscriber subs enough to do anything except maybe force then public and tell them to not do it again or else.

This all assumes that mods won't freak out about potentially getting removed from the one thing in their lives they have power over and completely backtrack everything. And already that's happening in droves, every sub I'm still a mod in is seeing infighting between the mods who are down to protest and the the career bootlickers who'd do anything to stay on/ get moved up the totem pole. It's frankly hilarious to see them try to argue that it's about anything other than 'but they might remove meeeeeee' because ultimately there is no good reason to not commit other than that. The logic seems to be 'they aren't listening to us because they think we'll stop complaining eventually, therefore we should stop complaining now'. Which is laughable.

my cursor has hovered over the delete account button so many times this week holy frick i have no idea how i used to have the patience for this dumbass janny drama

It's just going to slowly fizzle out with some minor demands being met but Reddit still going more or less forward as planned

After the /r/NoNewNormal fiasco, I’m surprised Reddit admins didn’t remove the option to go private.

There is no world in which jannies win.

it will definitely go like this:

chadmins force unprivate and unjanny a powerjanny or two

other powerjanies get scared at losing tbe only power in their life and fold, giving a bogus other reason

When you argue with people who are pro blackout, bring up this talking point "Current mods only need 3rd party apps because they moderate to many subs"

Also, be sure to argue for the blackout as well, Be as obnoxious condescending and dismissive as possible. We have to make people hate these people after all.

the very second their grip on the only tiny bit of power in their pathetic lives is at risk the jannies will fold.

They will use an excuse like " I can't in good conscience risk a chud getting control of this sub uwu"

Unless Reddit is stupid, they'll cherry-pick a subreddit that is acting most egregiously (indefinite shutdown + off-site migration) and force it open, then start going down a list, adjusting their velocity in order to moderate outrage. Despite what the jannies think, no one is going to get angry over this unless they're already angry.

Reddit makes an example of the ringleaders and the rest of the jannies fall back in line for fear of having their mops taken away.

Add another option: Spez pretends to throw the jannies a bone with more empty promises, then demops anyone who refuses to reopen.

Carp posted and removed a screenie of admins message mods on a sub (don't know which one). Either Reddit wants to bend the knee or they are giving jannies a final attempt to compromise and cut it out. The message mentions that their tools support what they want and ask to schedule a call.

I hope the user revolts puts a chink in the powerjanny ego armor.

As much as I want Reddit to bring the hammer down on power jannies for the drama I doubt that management will do anything too hasty. My guess is the management will throw some small bone towards jannies and call it good.

But there’s also zero situation where I think jannies come out on top in this. The Apollo dev has already buckled and is going to increase sub costs to try to pay for API changes. I don’t think they will back down on that besides maybe dialing down the price some. The userbase overall also gives zero shits about this, it’s pretty much just the top 1% of users/power jannies that do.

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who cares. everyone involved will still be unbelievably r-slurred

58.42% of subreddits have an active mod to private them?

chadmins keep saying they are in talks with some 3rd party apps so I'm going with compromise involving them

Jannies won't give up their only source of power. In the end they will bend the knee. I still hope for TJD, would provide lots of content.

I'm just glad that uncle ted is gone so he doesn't have to witness this nonsense. industrial revolution smh

Everything except for Janny Victory is possible.

Jannies will get withdrawal symptoms after a week or so of not using their mops and open everything back up on their own.

Wishful thinking for option three. I've actually decreased my usage like 80%, I might become free.

After years online, I hate Europeans. Nothing can change my mind.

They clearly hate us, why shouldn't I hate them in return? Every time something bad happens to our country and our citizens, Europeans are always there to cheer and take pleasure at our misfortune. Whether it be a natural disaster, 9/11 or even Covid. They're nasty, mean spirited people. One of the things they complain most about was the atomic bombings of Japan in WW2. As someone who loves Japanese people, I wish we could've nuked a European country instead. Those fricks up until very recently were exploiting and fricking over 2/3rds of the globe. They deserve nukes more than the Japanese ever did. To any European who reads this, frick you and frick whatever Eurotrash country you're from.