How to "kill" a subreddit? : reddit

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How to "kill" a subreddit? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago by Obelix@feddit.org to c/reddit@lemmy.world

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I run a moderatly successful Subreddit (~200.000 subscribers), but I want to stop. I have no interest in moderating it anymore, but Reddit as a company has totally made it clear that it is viewing subreddits as its own property:

As far as I know I can't take a subreddit of this size private anymore
If I just stop moderating, people still can post and will post problematic content that I don't want to see online
If i stop moderating, somebody else can "claim" the sub and will be the new moderator, which I also don't want

Does anybody here have experience in stopping a subreddit that doesn't lead to Reddit just placing new people in control? I've already removed the option for the sub to be recommended to users and for it to be shown in "high traffic feeds" (which always led to nazi showing up btw), but I also was thinking about a way to restrict who can post or to set extreme high karma requirements for posts. Or are there any other options?

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[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Like others already said: make it suck. Go into your Joker arc and become the edgelord. You build it and you can destroy it. But you can’t just go full psycho over night. Make it look like you are becoming a power hungry mod with a napoleon complex over the course of a couple of weeks. As soon as some users start their own subreddit start linking there (preferably by making fun of them to stay in character) so the migration keeps going. While this is happening, ban the few contributing users that are still there.

When everything is burned down, post a dick pic on r/mentalhealth, log off and never look back.

PS: Bonus points if you document everything and release it on YouTube.

[–] Yoga@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

See if you can find an advertiser to promote their content on your sub. As the mod you control if it stays or not.

Get paid for your power until everyone leaves or you get canned lol

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I would not advise destroying a community like that. I think that would be a waste. So many people are destroying data, knowledge and human alliances, just because they lives on a website that went shitty.

I live in a shitty country. I left the country where I was born because it was shitty, and now I live in a different shitty country. Every computer I have access to has shitty software on it. The internet infrastructure is provided by shitty companies. My food is grown out of shit, and my shit is recycled by shitheads. The universe is a toilet. So what now?

Maybe give your community to someone who cares about it, while promoting an alternative that you care about.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Get new mods but pick the worst people for the job, at least a half dozen or so. If you get one person and that person abandons their account you're vulnerable to a reddit request, half a dozen and you get more breathing room.

get rid of your automod config (Replace with bans for the words "meta" and "subreddit") and any customizations you've done like icons or whatev.

if its a discussion subreddit, make it links and self posts and allow image uploads.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wasn't there some pop culture subreddit that closed down recently? What was the story/process there?

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