“He added that he plans to make changes to moderator policies so users can vote them out. Currently, a higher-ranking moderator — or the company — can boot out moderators. Incidentally, a r/Apple moderator posted on Twitter (via 9to5Mac) that Reddit was threatening to remove moderators who are staging an indefinite blackout.”

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      Voting out mods is a TERRIBLE idea. It means a very active minority can effectively control a large subreddit, and politically oriented / minority spaces are going to have constant campaigns trying to take them over.

      Can you imagine what it’s going to be like moderating TwoX, lgbt, or egg_irl if this change goes through? What a nightmare.

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      Spez has been un-deleting people’s posts, forcibly resubscribing them to large subs that they left, and sending out a warning that says “are you sure you want to post that” anytime you try to post a comment mentioning Kbin or Lemmy. I doubt he would actually give that much choice to users,