Reddit's IAmA Moderator Shuts Down Subreddit

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17 pointsjrmurad3 comments

The interesting thing here is that the single mod/creator of that subreddit can kill it off, despite there being many thousands of users subscribed and using it daily.

Seems like you should be able to give subreddits (or similar constructs on other social sites) up for adoption rather than abandon or kill them off.

Back in 2004 on audioscrobbler.com we had groups, with a "group politics" system where users could vote in new moderators and boot the old ones if they were dormant / abusive. It was far from perfect, but at least groups could survive the original mod going AWOL or just going plain nuts. Not seen anything like that since in social software.

> Seems like you should be able to give subreddits (or similar constructs on other social sites) up for adoption rather than abandon or kill them off.

According to the comments, you can.

The existing moderators can elect new moderators who can carry it on. The current (and only) mod is currently simply choosing not to, and made his intentions clear in that regard.

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