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Comment by lopkeny12ko | Hacker News Reader

Can't Reddit just un-private all the popular subreddits? Why haven't they done this yet?

because they'd also need to remove the mods who made the subs private in the first place lest they just make them private again immediately

and removing those mods would/could/should be perceived as an escalation in this fight that could make the problem worse not better

Doesn't sound that bad, I hope they do it. And word on the street is they've started. I'm not really sure why they have to even ban the mods. Just tell them it's over and ask them if they want to resign, and keep an eye on them incase they misbehave.

I didn't say ban, I said remove, not that I think there's much of a difference. I hope they do it too, although I expect for entirely different reasons than you do. Funny to see "Reddit Delenda Est" come full circle in a way.

I think mods might be a bit like members of US Congress. I expect that if you asked redditors if they think the mods on reddit are good, they'd say no...unless you asked them if the mods of the subreddits they use are good, in which case they'd say yes. Not convinced that removing the mods and reactivating the subs will go as well as you seem to.

This doesn't sound like a problem to me? Moderators are random volunteers from the public, not Reddit employees. Feels like it should be trivial and easy to dismiss and replace them. Not like they can file a labor dispute with the company...

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