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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2023
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I am wondering if, based on this horrible AMA, if subs are going to either blackout early, or decide that 48 hours won't really do anything so they opt to go indefinitely.
/r/traa's main mod said they and the subreddits gone for good after this since they're tools won't be there
r/ffxiv has already considered to extend their blackout period even before the AMA, so it's possible
They need to. This AMA is just telling people that reddit is following through with their changes and telling people to deal with it.
a few communities already have (/r/TropicalWeather) because they can't run under the new circumstances so it's very possible we see a much more chaotic wave of blackouts.
I've learned so much about weather through r/TropicalWeather over the years so I hope they set up shop out here somewhere.
Did a little searching and found their post on r/ModCoord, they are on Discord now for anyone else who is wondering. https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/144lox0/rtropicalweather_has_been_shut_down_indefinitely
Reddit admins will likely just boot the mods and takeover the subreddits. Especially the bigger ones. Heck they may even do that to ones that blackout at all, or past the 14th.
They have threatened and done similar to things like firearm subreddits.
I wonder how well they would keep up with spam
How hard would it be to nuke a sub in a way that's particularly difficult to recover from?
Couldn't really tell you. I haven't done any moderation in many years. And have no knowledge of how their DB system or backups are structured. But make no mistake, Reddit has admin rights and the ability to takeover any sub if they don't feel the mods are doing a good job, and there's been precedence for such action, either due to mod abusing and shuttering a sub, or just not engaging at all or even just going afk and abandoning a sub.
I dont think Mods can outright delete comments or submissions, only hide them. Only a user can overwrite and delete their comments. So....unless basically all users started scrubbing comments it would be hard i would guess. And i wouldnt be shocked if they had replicas or DB backups crawled at the page/submission level to roll back off of to protect such an act. Heck Pushshift was doing about that. I really detested that guy for how he handled privacy. Even had people sign up to exemptions and just straight ignored specific requests to have their user pages excluded from crawling.