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Reddit Admins Deny Subreddit Users the Right to Vote for Further Blackouts (teddit.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like many other subreddits, r/Finland is allowing its users to vote for whether or not they should a) reopen as normal, b) remain closed, or c) remain in protest mode.

However, the admins just sent them a nastygram essentially saying that's not allowed:

Your community sees well over 2 million unique visitors each month. Allowing a small segment of those users to make a decision for a community forever does not make sense. There are a huge number of people that use this space now and who will in the future

Polling to close is not a viable option that will return a result that resolves this situation

However, mods can also see traffic stats, which show them as closer to 20k uniques per month. My guess is that this is a copy/pasted message and a whole bunch of subreddits are getting this notice.

I thought this was a particularly nasty new development, since up until now the excuse has been that we can't let these Landed Gentry dictate the state of our subreddits, but now they're explicitly saying that they also don't care about how the users of a subreddit vote either.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is it possible to delete a subreddit easily, just curious if its an option mods have ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, mods cannot delete a subreddit. At most they can hide it by going private, or hide existing posts by "deleting" them (which still leaves them in the database and visible to mods and admins).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for your answer. It makes sense from an admin perspective that some rouge mod can't delete a sub.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Redditors don't have rights. What are you talking about?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2 million individual users that had a chance to participate. That's literally how democracy works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Lmao right? Everyone gets the voting slip but nobody if forcing you to vote. If you don't then the people who do decide what happens.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Based on that logic, how do the powers to be at Reddit feel about American Presidential elections?

Whoever is on the team working out all these strategies are just copying rules straight out of an authoritarian Government’s little red playbook.
“You are not allowed to protest!”
“You are only allowed to protest using Government approved methods”