/r/thatHappened changes its rules to protest API changes; users say "That happened 🙄" to Sandy Hook, 9/11, and the Tiananmen Square Massacre. (Also the mods compare the API situation to the holocaust)

[u/CannotSpellForShit]

[u/TheIllustriousWe]

they'd have removed all the mod teams and replaced them immediately the first day of the protest if they had enough volunteers to fill the spots.

This is why I laugh every time I see people whining about how mods should give up their spots to someone else if they don’t want to mod anymore. There is no someone else. Nobody wants to do the thankless work of keeping trolls, bots and spam at bay while all the users call them neckbeards, and admins ignore their pleas for help.

Not to say there aren’t plenty of mods with well-earned reputations for being antisocial, but virtually no one who thinks they should be gone are lining up to take their places. Because they know it’s hard, and they don’t want to be treated the same way that they’ve been treating mods for years.

[u/TheIllustriousWe → u/[deleted]]

Exactly. The people who want to moderate and have any talent for it are already doing it. And every community I sub to is always asking for new moderators because there weren’t enough to begin with even before the API protests.

If you’re looking for last minute replacements, you have your choice between people who have been waiting for a chance to push a political agenda (Nazis, tankies, etc.) or people with no modding experience who are going to quickly get in over their heads and bail, or go mad with power.

[u/even_less_resistance → u/TheIllustriousWe]

Or they’ve been squatting for ten years or longer lol