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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This was always going to be the end goal once Reddit went public. Reddit is in "make money now" mode since they need to make up for their CEO's extremely high compensation. I'd expect we will continue to see moderators lose more and more power.
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I think they have 2 plans for the future.
1. Make all the normy subs permanently public and advertiser friendly, and have ever-present admin presence lording over jannies that dare shut down the constant bot traffic giving them "engagement" numbers.
2. Make all NSFW subs turn to the "pay to play" private model, so advertisers won't cry about it and all the coomers pay Reddit to get their rocks off.
Both will eventually kill the site.
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God I can't fricking wait.
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I am actually
surprised 
reddit 
hasn't been sued, because it is actually 
against the law for a for-profit company to use volunteer 
labor for its primary operations, which is moderating the darn website.
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Jannies are being paid in having any semblance of control over other people
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I wouldn't be surprised if for certain subs janitors were actually being paid by corporations and advertisers. Which just means Reddit suffered from the same disease as Digg before they changed the website and caused the mass exodus.
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