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?

  • FaceDeer@fedia.io
    85·
    15 hours ago

    Might not necessarily be as narcissistic as you imply. If this person created the sub, and is still the only mod, then it wouldn’t really exist without them.

    No, but maybe it can exist without him. Out of 200,000 subscribers someone could want to step up and take over.

    The Reddit corporation doesn’t give a fuck.

    200,000 people might give a fuck.

    • clove@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      72·
      12 hours ago

      Then 1 of those 200,000 can make a new sub and use their own leg work that OP did.

      • FaceDeer@fedia.io
        81·
        7 hours ago

        Then they can make a new sub and pointlessly use their own leg work.

        The existing sub is right there. OP wants to walk away from it. There’s absolutely no point to burning it to the ground and forcing someone else to do a bunch of work to recreate it, it’s just petty.

        I’ve had to deal with this sort of “if I can’t have it nobody can” mentality in online communities before, helping rebuild the ruins of something that someone pointlessly destroyed on their way out the door, and it massively sucks. OP’s just going to make everyone hate him.

        • clove@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          24·
          6 hours ago

          Eh, I believe the creator of something can do whatever they want with their creation.

          • FaceDeer@fedia.io
            6·
            6 hours ago

            So if Linus Torvalds were to announce one day “I’m tired of Linux, time to burn it all down” that’d be fine? Someone else can just create a new operating system, after all.

            The point here is that OP may have “created” the subreddit in the sense of clicking a few buttons and filling out some text fields, but at this point it’s a community with 200,000 participants. Those participants also share in its ownership. Forcing them to jump through hoops recreating the whole thing just because OP’s decided he wants a Viking funeral is selfish.

            • clove@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              24·
              6 hours ago

              Yeah, I don’t see why not, especially since others can just fork and continue development.