You may have been following along on our previous posts (1, 2, 3), but the long and short of it is that reddit execs are trying to jack up monetization in advance of the IPO they hope will make them all rich, at the expense of the moderators who make these communities worth anything, disabled redditors (including disabled mods), and everyday users who just want more functionality that reddit has time and again refused to introduce, in favor of flash-in-the-pan crap that nobody asked for, like spam-filled chatrooms and NFTs.

After locking down for a while in read-only mode, we polled to see what this community would like to do going forward. The final result was overwhelmingly in favor of continuing some sort of protest (166/233 votes, or 72.2%) over opening up with no restrictions (67/233 votes, or 28.8%).

As for specifically how we should proceed, options and their votes as of ~1:30pm CDT (GMT -5) on June 29 included:

• 71 points: Making the sub NSFW by default, not to encourage NSFW posting but in line with reddit's own guidelines about what counts as "not safe for work," including profanity
• 28 points: Remaining in read-only lockdown indefinitely
• 22 points: Posting John Oliver memes exclusively
• 4 points: Come out of lockdown, but go read-only several days per week
• 2 points: Migrate to a new home, such as Kbin
• -24 points: Come out of lockdown, but go read-only one day a week

From our participating members, it's clear that you would like /r/boop to become marked as a NSFW sub by default. Please remember that this is not an encouragement to flood the sub with NSFW material, and definitely not permission to post off-topic NSFW material. But you can now post risqué material, comments or titles with profanity, etc. without concern about being sanctioned for breaking reddit's rules.

You may have seen our previous posts already, but many subs (including most of the largest) went read-only or completely private June 12–13, 20233 in order to protest an abrupt, ill-considered cash-grab by reddit. /r/AskHistorians has an extremely thorough analysis here, and there's also an ELI5 post about it.

Instead of listening to the people who make them worth literally any money at all, reddit leadership has made it clear in an AMA and internal memo exactly how little they care for the users who make the content they sell or the mods who keep the site manageable and legally compliant. It's now been over a week since the protests started, and reddit leadership's response to the reasonable, in-rules protests has only escalated to more and more ridiculous actions, with the latest highlights being wholesale removing mod teams who haven't broken any rules, without any warning. (If you want to see more details or follow the action, /r/ModCoord is the place to be.)

Since it's been a week, we'd like to check in with how the /r/boop community as a whole is feeling. Please see the attached poll, and then head to the comments to vote for specific potential actions (since the poll mechanic is so shitty you can't even set it to multiple-select).

While we review our options and the community's input, the sub will remain in read-only lockdown. The poll is currently set to run for 7 days, but it may be reviewed earlier.

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You may have seen our previous post about this already, but many subs (including most of the largest) went read-only or completely private June 12–13, 20233 in order to protest an abrupt, ill-considered cash-grab by reddit. /r/AskHistorians has an extremely thorough analysis here, and there's also an ELI5 post about it.

Instead of listening to the people who make them worth literally any money at all, reddit leadership has made it clear in an AMA and internal memo exactly how little they care for the users who make the content they sell or the mods who keep the site manageable and legally compliant. Accordingly, /r/boop is extending our read-only lockdown. We currently plan to reevaluate the situation in one week (on June 21, 2023), though changes may happen sooner if warranted.

Comments on this post will remain unrestricted for anyone who would like to weigh in, though please don't forget our general guidelines (i.e., don't be a jerk).

Update: Just when you think reddit leadership can't get any stupider, they are now threatening to break their own rules about moderator independence, including saying they are considering measures like letting users vote-brigade mods out. There is definitely no way that will end badly! Bonus points for a multimillionaire referring to the unpaid labor that every non-cesspit sub depends on as "landed gentry."

You've probably seen a lot of posts about this already, but many subs (including most of the largest) are going read-only or completely private in order to protest an abrupt, ill-considered cash-grab by reddit. /r/AskHistorians has an extremely thorough analysis here, and there's also an ELI5 post about it.

We're not a particularly big or active sub, but we're happy to get more eyeballs on this issue. Accordingly, we're going read-only effective immediately. We plan to reopen for new content sometime on June 14, but if that changes, we'll update you.