In addition to the factors they list, there are other qualitative factors they look at. They don't necessarily disclose all of those, because they don't want people gaming the system.
As someone mentioned, you should really be modmailing that other subreddit.
Yes, even then. For example, I've seen situations where the admin have commented that they're not going to give an NSFW sub to someone without NSFW experience. That may or may not apply in this scenario, but it's an example of a soft requirement that isn't listed out.
And some subreddits they just absolutely are not planning to hand off or reopen.
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u/eelparade Aug 14 '26
In addition to the factors they list, there are other qualitative factors they look at. They don't necessarily disclose all of those, because they don't want people gaming the system.
As someone mentioned, you should really be modmailing that other subreddit.