Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits That Continued to Protest

Re:Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits Tha... by ix-ix on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @04:30PM (#36423969)

I disagree. Should the Rust subreddit allow posts for the game rust? Would it not be unfair to remove them?

This applies to anything and everything. Subreddits were great because they could set whatever rules they wanted and you could just leave if you did not like it.

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Re:Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits Tha... by Zetice on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @04:57PM (#36424358)

Er, it has never been true that subreddits could set whatever rules they want. Many subreddits have been banned for a myriad of reasons, nothing should or would change w/r/t that.

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Re:Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits Tha... by aydyn on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @05:56PM (#36425215)

uh what? subreddits can and do set any rules they want within the global reddit terms of service. Subreddits have been banned for breaking global reddit rules.

Up until this very recent fiasco, those rules were much more lax.

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Re:Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits Tha... by Zetice on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @06:36PM (#36425647)

> within the global reddit terms of service.

Uh huh...

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Re:Reddit Goes Nuclear, Removes Moderators of Subreddits Tha... by whelp_24 on Thursday June 22, 2023 @05:49AM (#36429872)

Reddit has often banned subreddits and made rules afterwards. A few subreddits don't really break any rules but are unseemly so get quarantined or if small enough banned anyway.

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