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.
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This is gonna happen to every subreddit eventually. What remains to be seen is how long things last before subreddits start imploding.
Yup, every sub that participated or said anything against reddit’s choices is going to have their mods removed. Even if you went public when reddit asked you to.
They will not risk this again closer to the IPO
Oh boy, some 14-year old finally got his first power-trip boner! Congratulations to him for bending over.
I hope the rest of you guys step back and let him enjoy the joys of modding alone or with other incompetent shills.
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.
I just posted a link to this on the sub for shits and giggles expecting it to either not work or get banned within minutes. Nope, it’s there and people are pissed. Guess he’s not even nodding his newly stolen sub
Is it still there? I couldn’t find it. In the meantime, I posted this :D https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/14l8bj4/ads_that_look_like_tweets_with_minimal_sponspored/
It’s really flying under the radar.
It’s already gathering up a storm of people angry about the change
That last message to /u/ModCodeOfDoWhatWeSay is a bit heartbreaking, like there’s somehow still a chance that this is all one big silly misunderstanding and if only Reddit knew all the facts, they would absolutely revert that decision.
Honestly, chances are Reddit didn’t even ask them either. They could have been dead in a ditch for years for all Reddit gives a shit, they just need the content public again asap. And I would not put it past them to “access” a dead mod account to achieve those ends
Thank god we have a new community here.
What a massive piece of shit.
You might even say he was an asshole
Welcome to lemmy. Sorry for the circumstances that drove your community here. We won’t repeat the mistakes of /r/
Wow what a power trip for what exactly? If he’s not even actively involved what does he want it for?
Let’s be honest, everyone here is on a power trip if we’re using the word “coup”
What word do you think would better describe the situation?
This is INFURIATING!!!
What is the discord server? What an AH
What a piece of garbage.
Well welcome to lemmy, sorry that happened. Such a dick move.
I just deleted my account, and thereby ending all my moderation activities rather than taking part of the drama.
