I run a moderatly successful Subreddit (~200.000 subscribers), but I want to stop. I have no interest in moderating it anymore, but Reddit as a company has totally made it clear that it is viewing subreddits as its own property:

  • As far as I know I can’t take a subreddit of this size private anymore
  • If I just stop moderating, people still can post and will post problematic content that I don’t want to see online
  • If i stop moderating, somebody else can “claim” the sub and will be the new moderator, which I also don’t want

Does anybody here have experience in stopping a subreddit that doesn’t lead to Reddit just placing new people in control? I’ve already removed the option for the sub to be recommended to users and for it to be shown in “high traffic feeds” (which always led to nazi showing up btw), but I also was thinking about a way to restrict who can post or to set extreme high karma requirements for posts. Or are there any other options?

  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
    74·
    13 hours ago

    Might not necessarily be as narcissistic as you imply. If this person created the sub, and is still the only mod, then it wouldn’t really exist without them.

    No, but maybe it can exist without him. Out of 200,000 subscribers someone could want to step up and take over.

    The Reddit corporation doesn’t give a fuck.

    200,000 people might give a fuck.