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?
Eh, if they started and built that community, it’s theirs imo. They put in all the work and time to make the community and reddit reaps the benefits on their unpaid labor. Burn it down if they want.
No, the commenters and posters made the community. Mods are volunteer workers, not owners.
Sorry but they signed up for it. Reddit never claims that by moderation you gain ownership. He didn’t host the community, he moderated it.
The only reason someone should be allowed to kill a community is of they are the ones hosting it (in which case they should be allowed to decide what they want to host) or if the community is harmful.
It would be like someone who decided to go everyday to the park and clean the benches, would one day decide that he is done cleaning them, so he just tajes them home. They are not his benches, they are not on his property. His contributions are great but they do not entitle him any ownership.