5 by forgotmypw17 | 0 comments on Hacker News.
My partner and I started a community on reddit more than 10 years ago. Nothing illegal or untoward, it's about a city. We had to add other mods over time to keep up with the volume. Some have been helpful and respectful, and others have just given me nothing but abuse and criticism. Perhaps it was a mistake to keep them on, but they were good at their work otherwise. Well, after a snafu (my fault, admittedly) reddit has now taken away my permissions as mod, effectively removing me from my own community that I started. What was my mistake? I didn't post something illegal, nor anything abusive. I merely removed other mods, temporarily, and added an auto-moderator rule which warned users when their posts were reported. This was reported to the admins through ZenDesk, and suddenly I'm caught in the middle of a "power struggle", I guess, to gain control of this subreddit. Just a note to anyone wanting to start a community on this platform, you can spend years growing it (to 250K+ at this point) and then one day it can just be taken away from you with no recourse. We are now waiting on a "decision" from the admin team, and I don't know what to expect as the outcome, but it seems even if you are not breaking any of the rules, and one day your community can be just taken away from you.
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