TL;DR: A leaked Reddit admin policy change will reportedly limit accounts to moderating only one large subreddit (1M+ weekly viewers) and up to five medium-sized subreddits (100k+ weekly viewers). This is seen as a response to past subreddit blackouts over API changes, with some moderators allegedly planning to circumvent the restrictions. Here are some screenshots if you don’t want to view the cancerous link:
Honestly. too little too late and for the wrong reasons. They should have done this 6-8 years ago.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Yeah this has been an issue for a LONG time. Having one individual in charge of a million+ subreddit is just asking for power-tripping. And there are often hundreds of subreddits attached to one account.
I moderate 3 comms here. There’s days THAT is a lot of work. You can’t moderate more than 1 big reddit comm well it’s impossible
AwkwardTheTurtle is literally shaking and crying right now.
I remember even in the early days of reddit I got temp banned from /r/sex for explaining that incest is bad because when two folks with similar DNA procreate it leaves gaps for their offspring that less similar DNA wouldn’t create. And how this is literally how Tay-Sachs disease started. And likely Sickle Cell Anemia as well.
Banned. Incest not bad, just cultural. Silly me.
You can rest easy knowing that decision was probably made by Ghislaine Maxwell.
What will happen to all the mods that exist that mod loads of subreddits over those numbers? They just randomly expel them from subreddits if they don’t choose which ones to step down?
The same thing that happens when the US breaks up a monopoly presumably. They get shadow puppet accounts with which to mod from and we all get to pretend it’s progress.
Oh yeah, I don’t know how Reddit will deal with many mods just making alt accounts tbh. This sort of rule should’ve always have been the case on Reddit but bringing up the drawbridge now will potentially cause some problems for them at least in the short-term.
