In a comment shared by r/Apple moderator @aaronp613, Reddit cited its Moderator Code of Conduct and said that it has a duty to keep communities "relied upon by thousands or even millions of users" operational. Mods who do not agree to reopen subreddits that have gone private will be removed.

If a moderator team unanimously decides to stop moderating, we will invite new, active moderators to keep these spaces open and accessible to users. If there is no consensus, but at least one mod wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.

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[–] Dandroid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw another post saying they vowed not to do that. I haven't read the interview, but I wonder how what he said could be interpreted in opposite ways by two different people.

[–] ErraticDragon@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Anyone saying that they wouldn't was lying. Spez has a history of lying.

Here's what they said on June 7:

###Blackout

We respect your right to protest – that’s part of democracy.

This situation is a bit different, with some leading the charge, some users pressuring . We’re trying to work through all of the unique situations.

Big picture: We are tolerant, but also a duty to keep Reddit online.

If people want to do this out of anger, we want to make sure they’re mad for accurate reasons, not over things that are untrue. That’s a loss for everyone.

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/143rk5p/-/jnbjtsc/