r/sportsrenaissance • u/[deleted] • Jun 18 '23
Thoughts about going forward
Hey, r/sportsrenaissance! It's been a few days!
Thank you so much for your patience these past week while we went private to protest some of the upcoming changes going on with Reddit starting July 1st. We understand that having the subreddit set as private for a few days may have been unsettling or frustrating for many.
Reason for Blackout and Reddit's Response
For reference, here is our original post on the blackout. The primary reasons were:
- disproportionate increases to the cost of operation for third-party apps and bots;
- a reduction in accessibility for blind and visually impaired people via preferred 3rd party applications; and
- removal of mod tools to keep communities on-topic and spam free.
- Loss of access to NSFW content from 3rd party apps. (This is not just porn; it's any content marked NSFW which is problematic because that is a subjective call)
If you would like a clear but fairly detailed explanation for the protest, the mods of r/AskHistorians have set out their reasons out on their Twitter page.
Nearly 9000 subreddits blacked out huge portions of Reddit on Monday, making international news and apparently crashing Reddit at some stage. However, Reddit has unfortunately pushed back against mods, subreddits, and individuals and have not come to a fair compromise over the issues raised. They have indicated their willingness to reorder moderator teams so that mods that are against going dark or private would gain control of the subreddit. At least one creator and moderator of a subreddit briefly had all their mod privileges revoked by Reddit.
Therefore, a large number of subreddits have extended their blackout or returned in a restricted format. Some of these subreddit have indicated that their status will continue indefinitely unless there are changes.
Some of these moves do imply that the protests are having some kind of effectiveness, albeit not necessarily what the users involved hoped for.
Your Vote
While the mod team made the initial decision to blackout, we are not comfortable moving forward with any further changes without your input. r/sportsrenaissance is all of our community and you all deserve a say in what happens.
So, where do we go next?
We have several options laid before us. To vote, simply go to the comments and upvote one of the following options:
Stay completely closed indefinitely (The no-holds-barred option, nothing in the sub is visible to anyone, including previous posts/comments)
Go Restricted indefinitely (less drastic, you can still view past posts just not comment or post anything)
Open back up completely (the "meh" option).
Thanks & let us know how you want to move forward by voting below!
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Jun 18 '23
Stay completely closed indefinitely (The no-holds-barred option, nothing in the sub is visible to anyone, including previous posts/comments)
2
Jun 18 '23
Go restricted indefinitely! (less drastic, you can still view past posts just not comment or post anything)
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '23
Open back up completely! (the "meh" option).