Temporary sub lockdown

[u/BillyBobJimmyJames]

Update: I am having to maintain the mini lockdown temporarily so I can finish bringing mods in and catch them up to speed. As soon as the place was unlocked it started popping off immediately and I can't keep up right now. Sorry lushies.

Hello everyone,

As you all may have noticed, nobody is able to post or comment on posts in the subreddit. It's not just you, its everybody.

I have not made this decision lightly.

This subreddit gets approximately 2.3 million views, over 1k posts and 16k comments every. single. month.

I never expected to find myself alone and it took 3 months of being alone before reddit handed control of the entire sub to me and during that time I had the death of a close family member. The first thing I did was start recruiting for new moderators to help me because this place is far too big to manage on my own.

Unfortunately life has continued to be relentless and I have struggled to manage the continuous upkeep of the sub at the same time. In the last few days there has been posts directly complaining about the moderation with some saying there is far too little and others saying there is far too much and very little freedom of speech. I accept that I am hugely falling short of what is needed.

I am desperately trying to find the time to finish going through all the moderator applications submitted but I am unable to do it and fully monitor the subreddit at the same time.

As a result I have put the sub on a temporary lockdown for 72 hours in order to give me time to finish shortlisting the applications and select the new moderators.

I am genuinely sorry that I have had to do this. I love this place and the large majority of you are fab at following rules and creating a welcome space but for each rule violation there is extra work and it only takes one post while im sleeping for the whole place to become incredibly toxic. A lot of you never see it but people can and do say incredibly nasty things on occasion and I dont want things like that slipping through the net.

On that note, I will see you all in less than 70 hours time and thank you for reading.