Over on Reddit, /r/AssholeDesign was taken over by a moderator that had been radio silent for over two years. The linked Imgur album contains modmail screenshots and our entire conversation after calling them out for this betrayal.

  • catwhowalksbyhimself@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I once made a sub, and no one joined it. I then found out that you can’t shut one down. Every. You can abandon it, and reddit will hand it over to the first person who asks for it, but once a sub is open it can never, ever be closed.

    You can hand it over though. Or at least, that is how things used to go.

    • thawed_caveman@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      There’s a hack for this: remove all mods including yourself, subreddit is now unmoderated, report the unmoderated sub to admins, they nuke it. However the name won’t be available again.

      • catwhowalksbyhimself@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Tried that. It didn’t take. Even though I tired remove myself, I was put back on somehow.

        And the unmoderated sub can be picked back up by anyone who requests it. It’s how a lot of old porn subs got turned into subs about cats.

    • Drunemeton@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Still true!

      My one gift to humanity was r/dndcats and it’ll last as long as reddit does.

      😂🤣😂

        • Drunemeton@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I just don’t have time to moderate 3 posts in 8 years. Live/Work balance being what it is…

          My first post was a great photo of a cat behind a DM screen. So I asked the poster if I could use it as a banner image. She wanted to be made a full admin or no.

          So no, and it went downhill from there.