Reddit typically bans unmoderated subreddits. For any larger ones that would impact revenue, they'll just push in new mods.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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Doesn't it usually take them a while to figure out it's unmoderated? Even longer if it's badly moderated?
On a few of the tiny subs I modded on, we'd just approve everything by default unless someone reported it, or it was like, illegal content (cp, etc.).
the thing that did happen with digg that didn't happen with heaps of other websites was a negatively received UI change. people hated it.
now, people deliberately don't use the reddit mobile app because it fucking sucks, and closing down the alternatives is a negative UI change ...
The average user won't know what's happening, they'll just think "Wow, what's with all this spam, mods need to do their jobs."
What needs to happen is people migrate from Reddit to alternatives like Lemmy, or at the very least, the Reddit admins think enough people are going to leave Reddit. Filling your sub with spam won't make people switch to Lemmy, they'll just go to one of the remaining subs that's still being moderated.
By stepping down in moderating and letting it get crappy, it will induce more people to leave, thinking "this sub has gone to shit"
Reddit would ban it, probably another, more reddit friendly team would take over...
What they can do is a poor job.
What we need is a group of “hackers” like lizard squad back in the day (yes the dumb hacker trend we had) to DOS or spam threads with bots. Or DOS reddit mods and admins of larger useless subs that arent considered critical resources for important real life shit.
Yes im condoning dumb shit that got old over 10 years ago, but at this point… does it matter?? May aswell just be dicks with it.