People subscribe to communities based on the content at the time of subscription. “Changing a previously SFW community to an NSFW community in order to protest Reddit policies is inappropriate for the members of your community and not acceptable overall. The admin account that Reddit uses to talk with moderators, u/ModCodeofConduct, said Wednesday that communities can’t suddenly change their status. The other two communities are currently archived as moderators were removed.Īpart from this, other communities such as r/illegallifeprotips, r/self and r/shittylifeprotips also remain in archived status. Reddit briefly removed r/midlyinteresting moderators but reinstated them later when the community switched back to SFW. As noted in a report by The Verge, r/formula1, r/HomeKit and r/HomePod had turned the NSFW label on earlier this week, but the admins asked moderators to switch them back to SFW communities.Įarlier this week, some large communities like r/interstingasfuck, r/midlyinteresting, and r/TIHI (Thanks I hate it) enabled NSFW.
It is also threatening them with punitive action and asking them to remove the NSFW label. However, Reddit is stepping in with some of these subreddits and removing moderators.
So protesting communities are changing their status to try to affect the company’s ad revenue and get them to listen to their demands. In April 2019, the social network changed its policy to disallow ads on NSFW subreddits. Protesting API changes made by Reddit, moderators are making their subreddits NSFW and loosening the rules about what users can post. After adopting different forms of protest like exclusively posting John Oliver pictures or changing the topic of the subreddit, moderators have rebelled against the company by marking their subreddits NSFW (Not Safe For Work).
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