Wait, doesnt reddit have control over it servers? It surely can revoke such rules.
Looks like all this drama is to give an illusion of control and free speech. Am I missing some other dynamic at play?
Looks like all this drama is to give an illusion of control and free speech. Am I missing some other dynamic at play?
Nobody should be under any illusion that they "own" their subreddits.
However, the philosophical positioning Reddit has taken historically is that the Moderators own the subreddits, so yanking one away wholly from the moderation group would mark a substantial shift away from that positioning.
Maybe that's a good thing for Reddit, though.
Not much of a departure -- they've done it.
Reddit absolutely loves to yank smaller subreddits from mods.
Seems anthropomorphic to me...
I don't doubt admins and "powermods" are often the same people, and I'm not defending the morality of reddit as an org. However, the etiquette is that mods have total control over their subs as long as site-wide rules and real laws are not violated.