I read this update posted last night on the r/iPhone discord, and have not seen this posted anywhere yet. Please feel free to direct this to the proper community if this is out of place.
I highlighted the relevant sentence, but it seems that the moderators are discussing how to proceed after the initial Reddit blackout behind the scenes, and having the communities being unmoderated is one of the potential options.
How do people feel about going back to an unmoderated Reddit?
Doubt it. Most big subreddits have a lot of people wanting to become a mod, they’d just request it from Reddit - mods abandoning the subreddit is the most common reason they grant a new owner to a community.
What will happen is the quality of the subs will drop - less megathreads, less documentation, barely functional wikis, no live events, the passion will be mostly gone.
This is what I was thinking too, but there was no clarification of whether the mods would openly abandon their positions, or just refusing to do any enforcement of the rules besides the bare minimum (which is already what a lot of big sub mods do lol).
Either way, this is more evidence that that Reddit will become a worse experience on all fronts.
I hope there is an application tracking moderator changes like there is with the blackout.
Those people have no idea what mods has to do on semi decent big subs, lol.