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/r/LegalAdviceUK is forced back open, vows to move the entire community off Reddit (www.reddit.com)
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As with many other subreddits, /r/LegalAdviceUK (which had been dark since the start of the blackout) has been sent a thinly-veiled threat by Reddit.

So they've reopened in order to start moving the entire community of 810,000 subscribers to somewhere else.

As you can imagine there are a number of legal professionals who moderate that sub, and they really don't take kindly to being threatened. They sign off their reopening message with "Fuck /u/Spez and long live John Oliver." but for the real fun you might want to look up a very famous British legal case they reference, Arkell v Pressdram 1971.

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[–] Litigant-In-Person@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just grabbed https://feddit.uk/c/legaladvice too, thanks for the comment/suggestion.

I am cautious of taking ownership too much, as we might not end up using them and wouldn't want to domain-squat, so in theory I would be open to letting other people take control or decide to moderate them if they felt they were fully invested.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can always ask the admin to purge the communities if you end up not using them. That will release the name for others to pick up.

[–] Litigant-In-Person@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

That is very good to know too!

[–] CoderKat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Probably don't even need to ask. I'm sure that eventually we'll come up with a means to snag dead communities, as there's gonna be tons of them.