This assumes there's an army of competent mods in waiting that the admins can tap into, who could take over (without many of the tools the previous mods used) and effectively run some of the largest communities on the internet.
This strikes me as unlikely.
This assumes there isnt an army of unemployed people with a power fetish using reddit willing to lord over top subs that would be brought back by force. Aside from deleting bad words and over the top vulgar opinions in clean subs what does a mod do besides sit around staring at their screen?
what does a software engineer do besides sitting around staring at a screen, typing and googling? anyone can be a reductive ass. not that i think reddit power mods are good but any forum’s moderators do more than that and you’re just being a dick in bad faith
There will be plenty. Guaranteed.
My friend shut down his subreddit and a mod complained to Reddit admins that my friend wasn’t even active, and Reddit admins gave that mod the subreddit.
Great system.
It just means: if you create a subreddit, you don’t own it in any way. You’re granted permission to be its custodian. If your behaviour does not create value / if you anger the Reddit gods, you will be replaced.