Over on Reddit, /r/AssholeDesign was taken over by a moderator that had been radio silent for over two years. The linked Imgur album contains modmail screenshots and our entire conversation after calling them out for this betrayal.

  • wildn0x@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I always thought a subreddit was created and if the creator stepped down, they could decide to hand it over or nuke it, similar to a discord server or something. Never realized the “I made this” meme was reddit in a nutshell. I’d be pissed if some of the communities I’ve spent years building got handed off to someone else without my say.

    • catwhowalksbyhimself@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I once made a sub, and no one joined it. I then found out that you can’t shut one down. Every. You can abandon it, and reddit will hand it over to the first person who asks for it, but once a sub is open it can never, ever be closed.

      You can hand it over though. Or at least, that is how things used to go.

      • thawed_caveman@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        There’s a hack for this: remove all mods including yourself, subreddit is now unmoderated, report the unmoderated sub to admins, they nuke it. However the name won’t be available again.

        • catwhowalksbyhimself@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Tried that. It didn’t take. Even though I tired remove myself, I was put back on somehow.

          And the unmoderated sub can be picked back up by anyone who requests it. It’s how a lot of old porn subs got turned into subs about cats.

      • Drunemeton@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Still true!

        My one gift to humanity was r/dndcats and it’ll last as long as reddit does.

        😂🤣😂

          • Drunemeton@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            I just don’t have time to moderate 3 posts in 8 years. Live/Work balance being what it is…

            My first post was a great photo of a cat behind a DM screen. So I asked the poster if I could use it as a banner image. She wanted to be made a full admin or no.

            So no, and it went downhill from there.