I suspect a lot of subs will come back online just so they can publicly coordinate and announce their permanent shutdowns or migrations to somewhere else. If Reddit doesn’t relent by June 30 (or maybe even if they do), I think we’ll see a lot of communities permanently go dark.
I sure hope so. I just saw /r/technology is open again, no word about the next steps. If this is all that is going to happen then nothing will change much.
Did r/technology ever go dark? Maybe I’m confusing it with another sub, but I thought that one was modded by an actual Reddit admin/employee and wasn’t participating?
I’m a mod of a group of related subreddits that are all part of the same fandom community. We’ve been polling our members each step of the way so we can represent their interests and not just shut down because the mods wanted to. Our subs voted to stay dark for a week, and on the 19th we will reopen, but Restricted, so we can poll again to see what our next steps, as a community, are. We won’t just pull the plug on our communities without their consent, and while we’re dark we’re researching alternative platforms to rehome on if that’s needed.
The whole “we’ve been polling our members” thing feels a little sanctimonious to me. You’re the moderators, make a call. If the users don’t like it they can do the same thing they could do any other time they disagreed with moderators, make a new subreddit and moderate it themselves.
Edited to add, even if you want to poll them there’s no need to open in the meantime. Link to a stawpoll on your locked page. Direct people to discord, or here, to engage. By engaging on Reddit all you’re doing is proving spez right that this will blow over.
It’s not sanctimonious. We care what our members think and feel. We have the open support of the author we’re the fandom for, even saying he’d follow us to a new platform if the community decided to go to one. There’s nothing sanctimonious about caring about a community and letting the collective decide what to do. We don’t “own” the community, we caretake it. We don’t exercise power without the fans being behind it.
I suspect a lot of subs will come back online just so they can publicly coordinate and announce their permanent shutdowns or migrations to somewhere else. If Reddit doesn’t relent by June 30 (or maybe even if they do), I think we’ll see a lot of communities permanently go dark.
I sure hope so. I just saw /r/technology is open again, no word about the next steps. If this is all that is going to happen then nothing will change much.
Did r/technology ever go dark? Maybe I’m confusing it with another sub, but I thought that one was modded by an actual Reddit admin/employee and wasn’t participating?
Why would that be needed though? They can put info on their private front page, and the mods can coordinate behind the scenes.
I’m a mod of a group of related subreddits that are all part of the same fandom community. We’ve been polling our members each step of the way so we can represent their interests and not just shut down because the mods wanted to. Our subs voted to stay dark for a week, and on the 19th we will reopen, but Restricted, so we can poll again to see what our next steps, as a community, are. We won’t just pull the plug on our communities without their consent, and while we’re dark we’re researching alternative platforms to rehome on if that’s needed.
The whole “we’ve been polling our members” thing feels a little sanctimonious to me. You’re the moderators, make a call. If the users don’t like it they can do the same thing they could do any other time they disagreed with moderators, make a new subreddit and moderate it themselves.
Edited to add, even if you want to poll them there’s no need to open in the meantime. Link to a stawpoll on your locked page. Direct people to discord, or here, to engage. By engaging on Reddit all you’re doing is proving spez right that this will blow over.
It’s not sanctimonious. We care what our members think and feel. We have the open support of the author we’re the fandom for, even saying he’d follow us to a new platform if the community decided to go to one. There’s nothing sanctimonious about caring about a community and letting the collective decide what to do. We don’t “own” the community, we caretake it. We don’t exercise power without the fans being behind it.