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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[–] Ralphensnitch@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine being the only mod in a large subreddit, leading an army of untrained recruits. What does that mean for the health of that community? The quality of the subjects and posts isn't going to be very good, particularly if people start birigading or something.

They are getting rid of their best volunteers.

[–] dontblink@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago

They don't care, they just want the community to be open so that they can have the most content the users can scroll through while seeing their precious ads.

Value of the content doesn't really matter i guess...