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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Why don't the Redditors just leave if they hate it so much?
Like I remember when a salesperson was a little bit curt to me once and I have never considered using that company again.
Imagine that but actually you bend over daily for the rude salesman to anally r*pe you while complaining that there's nothing you can do to stop it and the anal male feminist has now deprived you of wearing !chastity bussy protection so now you have no choice but to be anally r*ped daily for the rest of your life.
Meanwhile the door is open and the anal male feminist says you're welcome to leave at any point and his primary goal isn't even anally raping you, it's to sell you advertising.
It's weird.
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Because there's barely any online leftoid spaces with that many members. Reddit is basically the last one.
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