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[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He expects so because he's going to have his admin staff de-mod all the rebels, open the subs back up, and ruthlessly ban anyone who says a word about the controversy. The user population that remains will eventually go back to sleep, and all will be well in Reddit-land.

[–] Blissingg@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol good luck finding new mods that will be any good after pulling a stunt like that. They certainly aren’t going to pay for any either.

[–] Clbull@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The News and Worldnews subreddits prove there are people still willing to lick Spez's boots.

[–] deephurting@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

They never shut down, along with a few other biggies. TiL just reopened.

[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This. There will always be people attracted to power, even power as ultimately meaningless as being a reddit mod. Spez will enlist a new squad of wanna-be petty tyrants.

[–] Clbull@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

They could easily do that by:

  1. Threatening to site-wide ban moderators who keep their subreddits dark (on the basis that they're disrupting the regular function of the website.)
  2. Actually banning them if they follow through on another blackout.
  3. Doing a bit of overtime to moderate /r/redditrequest, on the condition that people don't request subs that already have more than two million subscribers.