However, late last night, shortly before midnight (CEST), Reddit admins posted the following update publicly:
“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 who wants to keep the community going, we will respect their decisions and remove those who no longer want to moderate from the mod team.”
Shortly thereafter, Reddit began sending out messages to mod teams, containing the following:
“If there are mods here who are willing to work towards reopening this community, we are willing to work with you to process a Top Mod Removal request or reorder the mod team to achieve this goal if mods higher up the list are hindering reopening. We would handle this request and any retaliation attempts here in this modmail chain immediately”.
I work with a whole bunch of people like this. They think that late-summer weather with almost no rain in the southern Ontario climate in fucking spring is a good thing. The ones that think climate change is possibly real think it's decades off from causing devastating problems. They think that the wildfires this spring across the country are "bad luck", and not the result of bone-dry forests that had almost no snowfall and high temperatures. It drives me crazy.