IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME WEATHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT 
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. The policy applies to adjusting all community types, meaning moderators will have to request to make a switch from safe for work to not safe for work, too.
By requiring admin approval for the changes, Reddit is taking away a lever many communities used to protest the company's API pricing changes last year. By going private, the community becomes inaccessible to the public, making the platform less usable for the average visitor. And that's part of the reason behind the change.
Like I wonder what we can do to make this whole approval system a shit show.
If you can't beat them, then overdose them on what they want.
The promised 24 hour SLA seems like a target. A sort of DDOS attack of requests. But there's no accountability for them if they don't meet it.
I was imagining simple hacks like mods creating a new sub as a mirror for all posts to the original sub, and making the new sub private / NSFW from the start. Gets around the new Reddit rules, but accomplishes the same as a blackout. Requires coordinated mod action, but we've already shown that's possible.
I've worked a lot in trust and safety and half of the fun is gaming out the areas where structures can be abused or gotten around.
"The ability to instantly change Community Type settings has been used to break the platform and violate our rules,"
What rules does it break?
The golden rule: that it only exists to make money and benefit itself
It's Go_JasonWaterfalls now.
This is, of course, a response to the Blackout 
protests back in Spring of 2023 due to Reddit deciding to charge for API access and killing off a bunch of Apps
The ongoing and increasingly weird Reddit blackout, explained
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the comments talking about protests like "leave the sub unmoderated"
https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ft0cei/comment/lpp1rkh/?context=8
They still don't understand there are hordes of absolute losers lining up to clean for free
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They also overestimate the impact, without mod action subs would be run by upmarseys/downmarseys and big subs would be completely unchanged
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The funniest part is that so many of them can acknowledge that:
a. The major subs have been modded by the same people for years; and
b. These subs have noticably declined in quality over the years;
Yet still come to the conclusion that
c. The current mods being ousted and replaced would make the subs worse.
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people might have fun again?
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Worse. People might notice.
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stupid pesky bernie bros at it again!
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People might be allowed to see content that the mods don't want them to see.
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