Reddit is changing the rules and making new community ‘strikes’ harder

Reddit will no longer instantly deprive large communities, according to the platform’s statement last Monday (30). THE Visibility change now needs to be approved by the social network.

If the moderators of a particular subreddit want to make it private, will need to request authorization from a Reddit employee. According to the company, the possibility of changing the community’s visibility preferences was used to “breach the platform and violate the rules.”

Requests to activate private or NSFW (Not Safe for Work) communities may take up to 24 hours to be evaluated. For smaller communities (less than 5 thousand members or less than 30 days in existence) the change is automatically confirmed.

Before announcing the new rule, Discussed with Reddit moderators. The company states that it discussed the solution with the Reddit board of moderators, which has more than 160 members.

Solution to Reddit strike

Last year, thousands of subreddits went on “strike” (converted from public to private) in protest of changes in pricing for access to the platform’s APIs. The change in visibility not only caused millions of posts to become unavailable on the platform, but also caused instability in the service.

at that time Reddit did not approve of this move and retaliated against some moderators involved.threatens their positions.

Reddit has been operating normally for months. All platforms that were initially public have returned to their normal state. However, it seems that the platform did not forget the incident.

From the company’s perspective, Protests are allowed on the platform but when they start interfering with the user and the Reddit experienceThere will be intervention.