Christian SeligAs the subreddit blackout begins, I wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart to the Reddit community and everyone standing up ❤️ Let's hope Reddit listens. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/147a8xb/as_the_subreddit_blackout_begins_i_wanted_to_say/
Jerry Gonzalez 
@christianselig Reddit won’t listen, not if they know these blackouts are temporary. The blackouts should have been indefinite to start with.
Elaine (they/she) 💜🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Jeff Heinzelman@socialjeffwarrior
Then the question becomes will members of the community stay or move on to other platforms.
@christianselig @JerryGonzalez
Then the question becomes will members of the community stay or move on to other platforms.
@christianselig @JerryGonzalez
MaybeMyMonkeys@socialjeffwarrior @elaine @christianselig @JerryGonzalez the need to show investors that they are in control. Expect them to ask all the moderators to sign NDAs.
Thero Rando@JerryGonzalez @christianselig
Excluding some small sized subs most of the blackouts are indefinite
embix@JerryGonzalez @christianselig for several subs they already are
You Got The Cat Blushing@JerryGonzalez @christianselig they'll probably just replace the moderators
ellzumem@The_Merciless_Potato @JerryGonzalez @christianselig They will not replace mods. Reddit’s moderators as of now – unlike on every other of the big “social network” sites btw – are entirely unpaid. They literally can’t afford to kick out even a few dozen modteams, let alone hundreds… and everyone knows it.
Felis Cat@lm1 they absolutely could replace them. There's an endless line of people willing to step up behind the current mods to do the job.
Most of them would hate it and quit quickly, do the job terribly, or willingly sabotage the sub, but they could absolutely do it and lower the overall quality of their content.
The question is if lowering the quality of reddit content is a problem for them or not.
William Gunn@Sternness3985 @lm1 If they have a definition of content quality, it's based on engagement, not what you or I think of as quality. It's "highly upvoted, commented on, etc" and not "what I would want more of if I had a better understanding of what my values are". They don't think they can or should do anything about the latter. They're wrong, IMHO, but that is how they think. The only thing that will move #reddit's owners is a movement in engagement numbers.
@lm1 @JerryGonzalez @christianselig There are hundreds of people willing to be mods. The admins can easily replace the entire moderating community on Reddit with moderators of their own since all the top 100 subs are moderated by the same group of people so it takes less moderators to moderate those subreddits than you think.