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?
Start mass posting suppressed news. Seems to do it fast enough.
What’s the community called if we may ask?
Let us help you move it over to Lemmy, and take over mod responsibilities
Close the sub for the day when you “don’t have enough mods operating today.” Then open mod applications. Accept no one. Just continue until the subreddit bleeds to nothing in a few weeks, as you’ve broken no rules and redditors are impatient
Edit: and read nothing that you’re sent. Just mark all as read. They will complain loudly. It will spur a reaction that will hinder your plan. Remember your mental health!
Create a bunch of fake reddit accounts (or pay for some botting) that brigade the sub with pro-trump/musk rhetoric. If your users have brains, they’ll get pissed and start shit talking the two, saying that trump & musk are existential threats to america and the world, and it’s basically guaranteed that someone will say something like “can’t wait for those dumb tubs of lard to expire”. This is apparently now against Reddit ToS and can get a sub shut down (see r/WhitePeopleTwitter) so just let it get temp banned by admins, then do it again and get permabanned, or use the temp ban (or just warnings) as justification to close commenting and/or posting
Rebuild it on Lemmy, and once enough people have migrated, ditch reddit
Self post obfuscated links and references to Lemmy.
Make it enough of a challenge that only the curious users are sufficiently motivated.
???
Profit.
Can you make the sub private and for a couple months maintain it as “active” with low-effort posts vaguely on topic by a select few users?
Only answer so far that might maybe work.
Be as toxic of a mod as you can be lol.
Delete posts and comments at random
Ban users
That would could simply get them replaced, and the subreddit might continue under new management.
Can you change the name? Changing it to something radically different would get the job done. Especially if it’s weird and gross
Just walk away, let it crumble, and accept the time and effort you put in are a sunk cost.
Perhaps make a pinned post saying what’s happening and why, a plug for the Fediverse, and leave.
an overt plug for the fediverse will be removed though, reddit is actively censoring anyone saying positive things about it
Need to be low key about it, promote Lemmy here and there. Could be a fun side project for people to help with.
The simple answer is I don’t think you shoul. if there is a community that is so big, even if you’re a moderator that doesn’t give you the right to kill the community.
If in your opinion this community is harmful and violates the rules of reddit you can report it. But for anything else if you don’t want to be a part of it, Just don’t be a part of it.
If you would like this community to also exist in Lemmy, open a community in Lemmy, moderate it and pin it in the subreddit. But at the end of the day, it is not your place to decide if a community should exist or not, even if you personally invested a lot of time moderating it.
Eh, if they started and built that community, it’s theirs imo. They put in all the work and time to make the community and reddit reaps the benefits on their unpaid labor. Burn it down if they want.
No, the commenters and posters made the community. Mods are volunteer workers, not owners.
Sorry but they signed up for it. Reddit never claims that by moderation you gain ownership. He didn’t host the community, he moderated it.
The only reason someone should be allowed to kill a community is of they are the ones hosting it (in which case they should be allowed to decide what they want to host) or if the community is harmful.
It would be like someone who decided to go everyday to the park and clean the benches, would one day decide that he is done cleaning them, so he just tajes them home. They are not his benches, they are not on his property. His contributions are great but they do not entitle him any ownership.
Thats your opinion, and he has free will, dont be influenced by these mfs, you created it, you take it down, just domt be obvious and slowly ban top contributors
I see qhat you’re saying but I don’t agree. First, a park exists in a place. You can’t go to a park and just add to it like you do a digital space. And deleting the digital space you created returns things to how they were before you made changes.
Saying it belongs to the host is not a great argument either. When you make an account on Facebook or any other social media site you don’t lose control of your photos and words. Those are yours. And to continue on that path, a community created in Facebook can be deleted by the person who made it, because that community is theirs.
Start banning the top poster every day.
I would love to read the ban message. "You violated rule #15, don’t be the top poster of the day "
Add a link to a lemmy community in every automod comment, make every user manually approved.
Your requirements appear to be contradictory. You want to kill it, i.e. not see it any more, and you want to stop moderating it, but you don’t want anyone else to moderate it.
So stop moderating it, and block it. It’s not up to you to tell 200,000 people that they can’t continue to have a community; doing so makes you appear to be acting as some kind of landed gentry. Just walk away and don’t look back.
‘Flaired users only’ Require mod review for flairs.
And just choke it to death
this seems like a pretty simple, effective, and believable solution
I would not advise destroying a community like that. I think that would be a waste. So many people are destroying data, knowledge and human alliances, just because they lives on a website that went shitty.
I live in a shitty country. I left the country where I was born because it was shitty, and now I live in a different shitty country. Every computer I have access to has shitty software on it. The internet infrastructure is provided by shitty companies. My food is grown out of shit, and my shit is recycled by shitheads. The universe is a toilet. So what now?
Maybe give your community to someone who cares about it, while promoting an alternative that you care about.
