At first I thought they chickened out, now somehow I am both relieved and extremely sad.

Apparently, a heck of a lost of drama involving this.

Link to reddit for those who wants to give traffic to reddit - https://old.reddit.com/r/wholesome/comments/148aw58/radviceanimals_just_had_the_top_mods_permissions/

That's insane. I honestly thought it was solely romours, like Spez editing messages on behalf of others (which I still don't believe in)

Edit: I believe it now though.

This is downright terrifying. A major escalation of the blackout and deleting your content - with the help of european law - is a nice response to that, if they do not step back. This is perhaps the most extreme measure to be taken, short of destroying the data center itself. An emptied reddit history is a massive loss of knowledge and perhaps questionably damaging for the outside world.

Actually I accidentally clicked a Reddit link on Google earlier today and (I don't remember the subreddit) my first thought was: I'm pretty sure this subreddit took part in the blackout so why can I see its posts like nothing happened?

I wonder if they saw a bunch of traffic trying to access advice animals and decided it was a good testing grounds for removing mods.

They did the same thing to admins of other major subreddits even before the blackout. They also removed initial posts regarding it on major subreddits. Thats why I chose to leave.

Admins in /r/modsupport were breaking records last week to tell mods who had a dormant top mod come back and private the sub that they would “resolve the issue”. Then after saying that they didn’t do anything for a few days. Guess they are gonna start doing that to the big subs to reopen them.

Time to leave every single major subreddit.

Anybody have a link to this post? I can't find it in the user's page.

Can't say i didn't expect this.

And of course the obligatory eff spez.