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.

  • Skavau@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    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.